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On the Analysis and Charting capabilities, MT4 comes with a default library of 30 technical indicators and 31 graphical objects, 2000 free custom indicators, additional paid indicators and 9 timeframes to choose from varying from as short as 1-minute charts to as long as one-month charts.<br><br>MT5, on the other hand, offers 38 built-in technical indicators, 44 graphical objects, that can be easily applied to 21 different timeframes. In addition to the ordinary timeframes, MT5 offers two, eight and 12-hour charts that may be useful for many day traders.
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Meta Quotes developed the MT5 trading platform as a successor of MT4 with additional timeframes, features, and advantages. However, MT5 is not literally an upgrade of MT4, because MT4 was mainly developed for forex trading, whereas, MT5 was designed to provide access to CFDs, stocks, and futures in addition to forex. Let’s look at the differences between each of these platforms: MT4 vs MT5 Difference #1: Programming Language MT5 uses a different programming language when compared to MT4 i.e. MetaTrader5 uses MQL5, whereas MetaTrader4 uses MQL4. MT4 vs MT5 Difference #2: Exposure to Financial Markets Originally, MT4 was designed to carry out transactions across the Forex market alone, however, with many brokers adopting various other instruments, MT4 inevitably expanded and has other added instruments. MT5, on the other hand, was developed with the intention to support all the major markets including stocks, futures and FX trading instruments . Additionally, MT5 supports unlimited symbols, while MT4 has a maximum cap of 1024 symbols. MT4 vs MT5 Difference #3: Trading & Orders When it comes to trading and orders management in MT4 it has four order types available, namely: buy stop, buy limit, sell limit and sell stop, whereas MT5 offers six order types: buy stop limit, sell stop limit, in addition to the four offered in MT4 Copyright’s 2020 © Sanfrix Pvt Ltd All Rights Reserved For Further info contact sales@sanfrix.com Call us at: +65 9860 7215
MT4 vs MT5 Difference #4: Analysis & Charting Capabilities On the Analysis and Charting capabilities, MT4 comes with a default library of 30 technical indicators and 31 graphical objects, 2000 + free custom indicators, additional paid indicators and 9 timeframes to choose from varying from as short as 1-minute charts to as long as one-month charts. MT5, on the other hand, offers 38 built-in technical indicators, 44 graphical objects, that can be easily applied to 21 different timeframes. In addition to the ordinary timeframes, MT5 offers two, eight and 12-hour charts that may be useful for many day traders. Copyright’s 2020 © Sanfrix Pvt Ltd All Rights Reserved For Further info contact sales@sanfrix.com Call us at: +65 9860 7215