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Traders of Ghana and other West African countries are now able to trade using the innovative platform developed by MetaQuotes. One of the largest Ghanaian brokers, Precise FX, is the first in the region to switch to MetaTrader 5, offering its customers the full package of services. The African traders have not only received the desktop platform supporting hedging, but also received the mobile platform versions, for iOS and Android, alongside copy trading with signal subscription and access to ready-made robots for algorithmic trading. Currencies, commodities, stocks, metals and energy — hundreds of financial instruments are now available on a single platform.

Matilda Danquah, Precise FX

"Opting for the MetaTrader 5 platform was mainly focused in enhancing the trading experience of all clients who trade on the Precise FX platform", says Ms Matilda Danquah, Head of Marketing and Strategy at Precise FX. "The Clients are able to transfer funds between trading accounts right on the trading platform and can access the built-in economic calendar along with numerous tools for technical and fundamental analysis. We believe that equipping clients with the right trading support is a key requirement in making their trading experience successful. Although MetaTrader 5 is an upgraded version of MetaTrader 4, the user interface is very similar and users will easily familiarize themselves with the new platform. The replacement of MetaTrader 4 with MetaTrader 5 platform is a strategic move that will enable the company to remain as the preferred broker across the West African region".

Michael Lamptey, Modern Ghana

"Online forex trading has been one of the most fulfilling investment ventures I have been involved in", says Mr Michael Lamptey, the independent columnist of Modern Ghana website commenting on MetaTrader 5 perspectives in the region. "In our part of the world (West Africa), getting online now has become very easy, with the invasion of smartphones and internet. MetaTrader 5 is entering the West African market at the right time. The number of mobile users is growing and the product is bound to find its audience. A trader's level of experience is not important — those having no time to go through the different forms of analysis can also trade automatically with the use of robots and trading signals. So why just download social media platform on your phone, when you can trade and earn money using the MetaTrader 5 mobile platform? This is what we need in Africa — a platform that can provide financial freedom".

The international broker, Admiral Markets UK Ltd, announced the launch of new ​Admiral.Invest​ accounts on MetaTrader 5. Stock investors and traders can now access the stocks of ​265 largest companies​ from the US, the UK and the EU. Furthermore, Admiral Markets is aiming to add substantially more equity offerings in the upcoming months to expand portfolio investing possibilities for their clients.

The broker believes that the launch of Admiral.Invest is a specific shift towards the promotion of MetaTrader 5​, which is a more powerful and enhanced version of MetaTrader 4. The new account type supporting stock trading has been exclusively developed for the MetaTrader 5 platform. The three key points of the new offering are as follows:

1. No leverage: real stock trading 1:1
2. No short trading: profit only in rising markets
3. Long term investment possibilities: dividends received can be used as a savings fund

Jens Chrzanowski, Admiral Markets

Jens Chrzanowski, Member of the Management Board of Admiral Markets Group AS comments, "More and more clients are moving toward diversification of their trading activities. Now we've taken the next big step by also offering traditional-style investments in real stocks. As usual with stocks, traders are able to hold them long-term and can earn dividends from them. Sometimes, leveraged trading makes sense, while traditional investment may better suit other occasions. The best bit is that all options can be handled from one source via the MetaTrader 5 platform. Our new account type, Admiral.Invest, allows easy internal transfers in just a few seconds, instant access to many global stock markets and simple chart analysis, all within the universally recognizable MetaTrader interface."

The upgrade to the new platform is coinciding with the 10th Anniversary of RiddiSiddhi Bullions Limited's RSBL Spot system. RSBL is India's leading bullion company, with a turnover of over $1.5 billion. Its RSBL Spot is one of the few platforms supporting physical gold and silver dealings and deliveries. The system today has astounding thousands of registered jewelers, spread across all the corners of India. All RSBL's clients will now be able to trade via the new-generation MetaTrader 5 platform.

RSBL Spot was the first system in India that allowed for real time, two-way Indian bullion price quotes that brought together the entire ecosystem on one platform, viz. dealers, jewelers and investors. All what is needed to open an account is KYC documentation, to gain access to loaded features such as live international rates, complete facilities for managing the account, access to research reports, recommendations and news updates. The system was initially launched on the MetaTrader 4 platform, and now the company sees the future of RSBL exclusively on MetaTrader 5.

Prithviraj Kothari, RiddiSiddhi Bullions Limited

Prithviraj Kothari, Managing Director of RiddiSiddhi Bullions Limited, comments, "With our web terminal and apps, RSBL Spot has taken online trading facilities to India's farthest corners, making it possible for the common man to benefit from investing in gold and silver. Now, we are upgrading the RSBL Spot system to MetaTrader 5. Generally, the new platform is expected to be the new standard in financial markets and excels MetaTrader 4 in all terms, so the choice was obvious for us. This is a big milestone for the entire RSBL family and for all Indian traders."

The popular multi-asset platform now supports demo access to Asia's oldest stock exchange. Open an account on the MetaQuotes-BSE server and start receiving quotes of BSE featured securities. Also, you can apply technical analysis tools and perform back-testing using the exchange's historical price data.

Established in 1875, BSE (formerly known as Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd.) is the oldest stock exchange in India and Asia. It is the world's 12th largest stock exchange with an overall market cap of more than $2 trillion as of July, 2017.

"We are pleased to announce the start of MetaTrader 5 integration with BSE," commented Manoj Choudhary, head of MetaQuotes' Middle East office. We are optimistic that brokerage houses associated with BSE will be able to offer their clients trading in Indian Markets through the #1 multi-asset platform."

Ashishkumar Chauhan, MD and CEO of Bombay Stock Exchange

Commenting on this development Mr. Ashishkumar Chauhan, MD & CEO of BSE said, "After the successful integration of currency segments with MetaTrader 5, we will be extremely happy and excited to integrate more BSE finance instruments with MetaTrader 5. I am sure this is an important and long-awaited development for the Indian community of traders and investors."

Download MetaTrader 5 and trade on BSE

The Pakistan Mercantile Exchange (PMEX) has decided to offer MetaTrader 5 to all its market participants. This means that 333 PMEX members will be able to operate their business on MetaTrader 5 and to offer advanced trading and investment facilities to their clients. The cutting-edge functionality of the popular platform will become available to Pakistani traders, including the most powerful automated trading possibilities through the desktop application, mobile applications for iOS and Android devices and the full-featured web platform. Also, traders will be able to rent virtual hosting servers, apply technical indicators from the Market and use other MetaTrader 5 services for the optimal PMEX futures trading experience.

Ejaz Ali Shah, Managing Director of PMEX

Established in 2007 in Karachi, PMEX is the first and only futures market in Pakistan regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP).

"In early 2015, we announced the MetaTrader 5 integration with PMEX, and a month later one of Pakistani brokers started offering the new platform to their clients," said Gaies Chreis, MetaQuotes' Chief Operating Officer. "Now, after three years, PMEX completely switches to our software. This is definitely a beneficial step for all members of the exchange. Operating on MetaTrader 5, PMEX will be able to smoothly connect institutional clients, while brokers will be able to provide their traders fast and reliable access to the exchange. As for traders, they will certainly appreciate the comfort of trading through the advanced ecosystem of the fifth generation platform. Our wish is for other exchanges to follow the example of PMEX".

Left to right: Anwar Mirza (IT Consultant of PMEX), Ejaz Ali Shah (Managing Director of PMEX), Hamad Shah (Head of MetaQuotes Pakistan) and Shehzad Makhani (COO of PMEX)

Mr. Ejaz Ali Shah, Managing Director of PMEX stated, "PMEX is proud to announce the availability of MetaTrader 5 for all its Market Participants. The offering of MetaTrader 5 by the Exchange is in line with its technological overhauling strategy. The Exchange has always remained proactive in identifying and exploring ways for improving its existing technology infrastructure to allow its members and clients a seamless trading".

We will present our latest developments and new services for the MetaTrader 5 platform at the FxCuffs 2018 event, which will take place at the ICE Krakow Congress Centre on March 16-17.

It is the largest Eastern European conference of investors, which is expected to bring together over 5,000 visitors. More than 70 representatives of the European financial industry will participate in the event, including brokers, investment funds, banks, cryptocurrency start-ups and private investors.

"We are now seeing strong interest in MetaTrader 5 in Central and Eastern Europe," says Gaies Chreis, MetaQuotes' Chief Operating Officer. "Poland is one of the fastest growing markets in our industry. Leading regional and local brokers of European origin have already moved to the new platform, and negotiations with a number of other major market players are currently underway. We are going to showcase all the technological power of MetaTrader 5 at the FxCuffs event, and we hope to further strengthen relations with the Polish trading community!"

We invite everyone to meet with MetaQuotes' representatives at booth #45 and learn more about our company's products. To set up a meeting with our specialists, please send a request to sales@metaquotes.net.

The FxCuffs 2018 admission is free. Please register here.

Expo FxCuffs 2018
March 16-17, 2018
ICE Krakow Congress Centre
https://expo.fxcuffs.pl

We have added the functionality of using third-party Anti-DDoS services. The new Anti DDoS Proxy Server component, allows brokers to shift the burden of blocking unwanted connections, to a third-party vendor's server network.

When using an Anti DDoS Proxy Server, all clients are connected to the provider's public access points, instead of being connected directly to the access servers. Unwanted connections are sorted out in the provider's own network of servers, while legitimate connections from real clients, are forwarded to the access servers. The broker's infrastructure is practically not affected.

Josh Shaul, Vice President of Web Security, Akamai Technologies

Our partner, Akamai Technologies, is one of the world's largest infrastructure companies, offering a portfolio of cloud security solutions. The provider's massively distributed platform, is unparalleled in scale, with over 200,000 servers across 130 countries, thus providing customers with a superior performance and with a superior threat protection.

“By leveraging Akamai’s massive global network as a defensive shield, MetaTrader 5 will now be able to immediately bolster the protection of its clients from DDoS attacks", says Mr Josh Shaul, Vice President of Web Security, Akamai Technologies. "Our tools allow stopping attackers long before they are able to reach the MetaTrader 5 systems or clients”.

MetaQuotes Software will present its latest developments and services at the international iFX EXPO Asia 2018 B2B event to be held on January 23-25 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. Our company will be the Gold Sponsors of the event.

At the iFX EXPO Asia 2018, MetaQuotes Software will highlight the recent updates of the MetaTrader 5 multi-asset platform and share its further development plans. This information will be of interest for iFX EXPO Asia visitors since the era of MetaTrader 4 has come to an end, and everyone concerns about migration to MetaTrader 5. At the Expo, you will learn about our plans for the most advanced online trading platform and how these plans will affect the brokerage business.

Besides, we will present our latest project — the marketplace of applications for MetaTrader 5 brokers developed by third-party integrators. We will provide more details about the new marketplace for fintech providers during the event in Hong Kong.

We invite everyone to visit the booths 58 and 59. See you at the event!

iFX EXPO Asia
January 23-25, 2018
Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre

MetaTrader 5 is developing rapidly. Upon traders' requests, and in an effort to further improve our product, we have added a number of new tools and services to the platform. No such innovations will ever be implemented into MetaTrader 4. Moreover, this is only the first step in the MetaQuotes Software's new large-scale campaign, aiming in expanding the functionality of MetaTrader 5 for traders.

The new release features an ability to create synthetic financial instruments. Activation of this feature requires setting the formula for calculating quotes to be based on one or more available instruments. The platform will generate its minute ticks. All subsequent quotes will be built automatically in real time.

How it works:

1. You create a synthetic instrument and set the formula for price calculation.
2. The platform generates a minute history of the synthetic tool for the last two months. It is calculated based on one-minute bars of instruments used in its formula.
   
3. The prices of symbols used in the calculation are verified every 10 seconds. If at least one of them has changed, the price of the synthetic symbol is calculated and a new tick is generated.
4. All new bars (current and subsequent ones) of the synthetic instrument are created based on generated ticks.

Full-fledged projects simplify the application development for algorithmic trading and constitute another important feature of the build. Instead of the main MQ5 program file, a separate MQPROJ file is used as a project. It stores program settings, compilation parameters and information about all used files.

A separate tab in the Navigator is provided for work convenience within the project. All used files are arranged into various categories:

• Headers — adding header files.
• Resources — images, sounds and other MQL5 programs used in the project as resources.
  
• Sources — MQ5 files with a source code.
  
• Settings and Files — adding other files, such as set files for testing and chart templates.

The new build makes it more convenient to develop robots with other traders. The Shared Projects section provides the ability for developing trade applications in teams. A project developed under Shared Porjects is automatically added to the online MQL5 Storage. In the project properties, you can grant permissions to other MQL5.community members and set the common parameters for the group:

• Private project
• Free to join project
• Join by request project

The new MQL5 Cloud Protector mechanism provides an additional layer of protection for trading robots. This protection is similar to the option used in MetaTrader Market, where EX5 product files are additionally compiled to native code. Now, this feature is available to all developers. Protector-backed files can be executed on any computer, similar to common executable applications. To enable protection, execute the following command in MetaEditor: Tools — MQL5 Cloud Protector.

Find out more about all innovations of the MetaTrader 5 Build 1730 in Release Notes.

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We have expanded the economic calendar geographically by adding the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Switzerland on top of the United States, Japan and the European Union. China, Sweden, New Zealand, Mexico and Singapore will be available soon.

When a country is added, all economic indices that have a significant impact on the national currency in the calendar are included. Descriptions are professionally translated into 7 languages. This makes our solution different from many others which lack updating since their initial development.

Constant calendar improvements and development updates along with the addition of extra countries, are by no means the sole advantages of our service. You have 9 more reasons to add the calendar in your website:

2. Full description of events with forecasts and archived data

One of the key distinguishing features of the MetaQuotes calendar is data completeness. Each indicator has a separate page with a detailed description along with complete data on the event, including its influence on a particular currency. The description also includes a reference to the source, dates of the previous/next releases of the event, as well as its archived values: actual and forecast. For analysis clarity, the entire dynamics distribution is presented in the chart.

3. It is free

The development of a professional economic calendar is a complex task which requires considerable time and human resources. Due to the intensive development resources, some companies distribute such products on a commercial basis. Fortunately, this is not the case with our solution — we allow our customers to set it up for free.

4. No ads

Some financial resources offer their calendars for free, but with built-in advertising. The professional calendar from MetaQuotes offers no ads and has no plans to introduce them in the future.

5. Full translation into 7 languages

All data in our calendar, including event descriptions, are fully translated into English, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese and German. This allows traders from different countries to use the economic calendar in their native language. The complete translation favorably distinguishes our calendar from many other similar solutions which declare support for 10-15 languages. In reality, only interface elements are translated, while event names and descriptions remain in English.

On top of the above, our solution accommodates a nice bonus. The widget adjusts to the browser's language and shows your website visitors the calendar in their native language. All this happens automatically without the need for any additional settings.

6. Traders remain in your website

Leading financial data providers feature their own economic calendars which can only be used in their own websites. Our calendar incorporates a convenient widget that can be easily embedded to your website. Traders will no longer have to browse through third-party websites searching for relevant information. Also, the service allows you to attract new website visitors.

7. Events from primary sources

Our calendar receives news first-hand with no delays. No intermediary websites are used. Each event description has a link to the source. This operation mode is difficult to be implemented, but it guarantees complete reliability and accuracy of the collected data.

8. Time zone selection

The MetaQuotes calendar publishes events for countries located in different time zones: United States, United Kingdom, Japan and Australia among others. Important events tracking is maintained via local time adaptation. Manual adaptation of time zones is also possible. This feature provides your visitors with protection against missing news releases.

9. Calendar auto update

Our calendar is updated automatically immediately after a new event appears in the source. This is different from free versions of some other calendars which need to be updated manually. Our service relieves traders from the necessity of constantly re-loading the page, while it avoids the related negative feedback and an excessive load in the website.

10. Easy installation

The calendar can be set up in just a few clicks. Specify the desired calendar width/height and the default period (the current day or week) here, and you are ready to go. The remaining parameters are adjusted automatically. Simply copy the generated code and paste it in your web page.

Provide your website visitors with a ready-to-use tool for monitoring important macroeconomic events. It is free, it has no ads and it is translated into 7 languages!

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