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A new service has been launched on MQL5.com — the economic calendar tool is intended to provide useful information about macroeconomic events. It is considered a major fundamental market analysis tool developed by MetaQuotes Software on the bases of real-time data collected from public sources. 

The current version features economic news from the US, Japan and the European Union. Regardless of the broker used, relevant information is delivered to traders without delays, allowing them to instantaneously react to market events. Soon, the new calendar will replace the current one used in MetaTrader 5, so that users of the multi-asset platform will be able to receive up-to-date indicator values immediately after their release. Moreover, it will be possible to access the economic calendar from MQL5 robots and the strategy tester.

The MQL5.com economic calendar provides an online chronology, in which events are marked in accordance with their significance, while the most important ones are shown with a red label. With the economic calendar, you can keep track of key events and evaluate their effect on financial markets. Information about economic indicator releases can help users to formulate informed trading decisions and forecast future market developments. For example, knowing the release time of GDP or unemployment rate reports, you can prepare for increased volatility in the market to capture good trading opportunities.

With the MQL5.com economic calendar, you can always be up to date on global markets and well prepared for market movements. For convenience, you can filter events by importance, choose desired countries and time intervals. This essential economic information resource is updated automatically during announcements in real time. Open the economic calendar right now, and start monitoring important macroeconomic events to make more weighted trading decisions.

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After the successful release of the MetaTrader 5 MAMM solution, the Plugit Apps integrator company decided to extend their portfolio of products for brokers already using the new-generation platform.

'As MetaTrader 5 gained a foothold to become the favorite platform among retail brokers, we sought to carry on investing in more MetaTrader 5 compatible solutions,' says Jalal Faour, CEO of Plugit Apps, commenting on the extension of their product line. 'By combining the expertise and joint efforts of our market experts and developers, we have produced an amazing array of products and solutions to complement the MetaTrader 5 multi-asset platform. The new range of MetaTrader 5 compatible products has derived from working closely with leading MetaTrader 5 brokers and understanding their requirements. Plugit Apps solutions are designed to address all clients’ requirements'.

Jalal Faour, Plugit Apps

Below are some of the best-selling institutional MetaTrader 5 compatible products offered by Plugit Apps:

• Client Portal, a secured portal that offers a real-time interaction with MetaTrader 5, including customized features that can be tailored to each client’s business scheme and requirements.
  
  
• The Affiliate/IB System portal especially designed for MetaTrader 5, that includes all the essential features required for Introducing Brokers; in terms of allocating multi-tiered and sophisticated payout schemes with advanced reporting tool and user friendly interface, in addition to a powerful Backoffice, rendering operations very efficient.
  
  
• Bonus Automation is one of Plugit Apps' high-demand products that is now fully integrated with MetaTrader 5. A very scalable application allowing brokers to run different bonus campaigns and parallel promotions that suit different types of clients.
  
  
• Dynamic Leverage is a very efficient risk tool, designed to mitigate risks by constantly monitoring each trader’s exposure and adjusting the leverage when a certain threshold is exceeded. A very crucial tool for brokers enabling them to control exposure on a per trader level.
  

'We are continually striving to introduce new MetaTrader 5 compatible products as we acknowledge that the platform is heading in the right direction,' comments Jalal Faour. 'MetaTrader 5 is to become the key platform in the future and here, at Plugit Apps, we are always building for the future.'

We have opened a representative office in Bulgaria. Metapenta Software Ltd will offer its services to regional brokers. The main tasks of our office in Sofia are raising the offered services to a qualitatively new level as well as attracting brokers and financial organizations from the neighboring Balkan countries.

"The decision for this investment was based on personal observations of the parent company that Bulgaria's economy is actively developing", — says Emre Peser, Head of Metapenta Software. "There are several brokers using MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 in Bulgaria at the moment. But I also see a lot of potential opportunities to expand the market share of MetaQuotes Software Corp. products. This will be our main objective. The company will work as an agent of MetaQuotes and as such should serve to implement the business strategy and tasks set by its parent company".

Emre Peser, Metapenta Software Ltd

"We are pleased to offer such a high-tech product as MetaTrader 5 as we are constantly trying to provide the best trading conditions for our customers", — notes Petar Krustev, Executive Director of Benchmark Finance. "We launched the platform as early as 2012, and so far we have implemented all the additional applications, such as mobile versions for iOS and Android. This year, we have switched to the updated MetaTrader 5 featuring hedging. Besides, we are the first ones who offered the Web-based MetaTrader 5 application in Bulgaria".

"Our customers also prefer the MetaTrader 5 platform", — adds Pavel Nikolov, Manager of the International financial markets department at EuroFinance. "The ability to trade in different financial instruments across a platform is always an advantage, therefore the transition from the MetaTrader 4 to the MetaTrader 5 multi-asset platform is a great idea. After the new platform with the hedging option was offered on the Bulgarian market, the last advantage of MetaTrader 4 has disappeared".

The advent of MetaTrader 5 is going full speed with FXFlat becoming the first German broker to offer an alternative for MetaTrader 4. The company is a full-fledged STP broker regulated by the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) with the FXFlat Wertpapierhandelsbank GmbH license. CapTrader – which is a part of the company – offers stocks, options and futures trading since 2009. According to Rafael Alexander Neustadt, CEO of FXFlat, the oneZero Hub gateway for interaction with Interactive Brokers is an additional argument in favor of MetaTrader 5 since it allows trading on major stock exchanges around the world.

"FXFlat is the first Germany based broker offering MetaTrader 5 including the Web and Mobile Terminal solution", — says Rafael Neustadt. "Since our huge success in the last few years with MetaTrader 4, this is a logical step to expand the product offering. We will utilize the Multi Asset capabilities of MetaTrader 5 and the Interactive Brokers API to offer Futures and Stocks trading on MetaTrader 5 along with Forex we just launched within 2017".

Rafael Alexander Neustadt, FXFlat

“Although MetaTrader 4 is still one of the most popular trading platforms in Germany, I see a definitive uptick in traders looking for MetaTrader 5 brokers", — adds Sebastian Hell, trader and owner of meta-trader-5.de, a blog about MetaTrader 5 in Germany. "Many traders I know like to use both platforms nowadays. I am sure that MetaTrader 5 has a very bright future amongst German traders because it offers more possibilities for traders to build and create complex trading systems as well as more markets like FX and on-exchange products".

Migration of major brokers to MetaTrader 5 is well underway. On April 2017, XM.com, IC Markets and Hedge Total have announced the launch of the multi-asset HFT platform.

"It is something we have been patiently expecting for a long time, and I truly believe it will be a game changer for XM", — says Chris Zacharia, Marketing Director of XM Group. "As noted by myself in a previous interview, I feel the predecessor of MT5, the globally acknowledged MT4, is a great platform and has proved itself, but it could only satisfy the needs of a certain audience and that would be FX traders, while MT5 is open to a whole new audience in addition to FX traders. Only judging from the audience it will serve as a multi asset class platform, I would say it's the platform of choice as we speak".

"Following the popularity of the MetaTrader 4 trading platform, we are proud to announce the long-awaited release of MetaTrader 5", — notes Angus Walker, Director of IC Markets. "We are extremely excited about this release as it is in line with our goal of providing traders with the absolute best tools and conditions to succeed in the markets. Improved functionality of the trading platform means our clients will gain access to advanced trading tools, hedging capabilities, and new financial products".

"Hedge Total is a licensed broker offering its clients and partners the MetaTrader 5 platform with the market depth since 2011", — adds Tim Davis, Head of the Dealing Department at Hedge Total. "We believe that this is the most advanced trading platform, while adding the ability to place locks has also made it the most efficient one for profitable and safe trading. You do not need to study physics and laws of motion to drive a car. And you do not need any of that to trade in MetaTrader 5. Our team is grateful to traders choosing the MetaTrader 5 platform and enjoying the best trading conditions on Forex".

Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) holds the sixth conference on precious metals from 9 to 10 April 2017. The event is arranged with the help of MetaQuotes Software — our company is a technology sponsor of the Dubai Precious Metals Conference having the status of Trading Solutions Provider. The MetaTrader 5 multi-asset platform developed by the company is the best solution for trading and organizing a brokerage business in any financial market.

DMCC is dedicated to promoting and developing the bullion trade in Dubai, which acts as a crucial gateway between the largest consuming markets in the world. The conference organizers want industry leaders and decision makers to come together and discuss the global trends in the precious metals industry in key markets such as Dubai, China, India, Middle East and Turkey. Apart from the gold industry, emerging opportunities in the wider precious metals market are to be discussed as well. The conference organizers expect over 400 delegates from around the world.

To find out more about the conference and register to attend, please visit www.dpmc.ae.

The latest version of MetaTrader 5 for iPhone and iPad is now available on the App Store. The main innovation of the build — trading history can now be presented in the form of positions. Previously, the History tab contained only orders and deals. Now, it features positions as well. The trading platform collects data on deals related to a position and then combines the data into one record. The record contains:

• Position opening and closing time determined by the first and last trades
• Position volume. If the position was closed partially, the record contains the closed and initial volumes
• The weighted average open and close prices of the position
• The total financial result of deals related to the position

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The largest store of ready-made trading robots for the MetaTrader platforms features over 11,000 applications. We have upgraded the MetaTrader Market to help you browse through this wide variety of trading programs. The main page now features new Market products, popular Expert Advisors and indicators, as well as top free applications. The new design allows for better navigation experience in the MetaTrader Market, while providing fast access to the most interesting and useful apps.

The Experts, Indicators and Utilities sections have been enhanced with sub-sections, making it easier to find applications suiting your specific trading strategy. Trend or scalping robots, oscillators or cluster indicators, neural networks or martingale systems — the Market features an easy-to-browse selection of applications for traders of any skill level.

Also, a month ago we launched the Coupons service for brokers — using MQL5 Coupons, you can evaluate the Market of trading applications and other services for the MetaTrader platforms for free. Ask for available coupons from your broker, and use them to get closely acquainted with the Market of trading robots.

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Following Tools for Brokers, another team of software developers has announced the development of brokerage solutions for MetaTrader 5. The Polish integrator Empirica Software has become the next institutional software provider for companies using the advanced multi-asset platform. The trend becomes more visible as more brokers actively switching to MetaTrader 5 generate a demand for applications expanding and complementing the platform features, while tech service providers strive to satisfy this demand by pushing further the development of the platform and its infrastructure.

"For the last 6 years we have strengthened our market position as leading software partner for financial institutions and FinTech companies. We have developed a very strong algorithmic engine, that has already made one of our customers the fastest market maker on Warsaw Stock Exchange. We are pioneers in developing intelligent robo-technology based on machine learning. Now in cooperation with MetaQuotes we will support brokerage firms and investment companies in MetaTrader server extensions that will meet their specific requirements and needs in relation to the forex market. The customers of MetaQuotes can benefit from our ability to combine the high technical expertise and deep industry knowledge of our team", — says Michal Rozanski, CEO at Empirica S.A.

Michal Rozanski, Empirica

Customers who have already benefited from strong competences and experience of Empirica are Warsaw Stock Exchange, Credit Agricole, brokerage firms and robo advisors like BOS Bank, InvestHelp and Swissborg. Empirica is headquartered in Poland and set up international units in Germany, the Netherlands, Finland and Switzerland.

MetaQuotes Software will showcase its latest MetaTrader 5 developments at the MEFTECH exhibition which is devoted to innovations in the financial services industry. The event will take place at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre on March 13-14. MEFTECH 2017 is expected to gather over 200 participants.

At the exhibition, we will be showcasing the development of the MetaTrader 5 trading platform and its entire ecosystem. We will pay particular attention to the updated mobile applications and the web platform, the improved Virtual Hosting service providing the best conditions for uninterrupted trading, and the brand new MQL5 Coupons service that enables brokers to support traders who pay for built-in services in the MetaTrader platforms. In addition, we will be looking for cooperation with third-party developers: the market of institutional solutions for MetaTrader 5 is growing by leaps and bounds, while brokers migrating to the new platform are interested in your developments.

Abu Dhabi is one of the leading investment centers of the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa). Therefore, participation at the largest fintech event that convenes leaders of the local financial sector is of strategic importance for our company. Middle East brokers and banks interested in expanding their product lines and entering new markets, can find all the necessary information at our booth.

We invite everyone to visit our booth number C12. This is a great opportunity to experience our latest developments and find out all the details. See you at the event!‌

MEFTECH 2017
March 13-14, 2017
Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC)