Do you use MT4, MT5 or broker front end?

Thank flamingo for another amazing answer.

What more can you tell us about TradingView and how it works etc? How much does it cost?

I’m currently using RoboForex and their WebTrader front end (they do seem to be missing some indicators) as I found MT4 archaic.

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it’s certainly archaic, but i don’t even think that’s among its top three problems for forex traders (some of which can directly prevent their becoming successful)

honestly, best to look for yourself - there are 2 different free ways of doing that! (through TV or Oanda demo advanced charting)

4 different packages available, all the way from free to about £55 per month, as i remember … free trials available, or long-term use of the top package, permanently free, on Oanda demo: no downside to that, that i can see? it’s a pleasure to use

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I’m on the MT4 train! It’s super user-friendly, a lot of people use it, and there are tons of free tutorials on YouTube for it. Plus, I’m not a fan of change (in anything, really), so I’m sticking with my OG trading platform. :))))

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Tradingview hooked up with my broker. Only way to go. Join the other traders trading in this century. Ha!

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Hi there!
I am still on the MT4, just like my phone that is still an iPhone X and I am not looking to change any of them!
However, as far as I know about the brokers’ web traders, they all have some problems that will be bothering you in the end.
Best Luck/

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I am die hard MT5 user. I found that there is no such different between MT5 and MT4, but I would prefer the new one because it has a better look and interface than the MT4.

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i am using mt5
it has more time frames and i think it is faster here
i must say i started my trading on mt5 too and the brokers are not good they are not very fast and will not let you to place order speedy
but if you have any good trader tell me their name

I used to work with MT5 but my broker created their own one!
I also used Tradingview for a while and it was not that good!
I am working with this new trading platform and well, up to now it was better than MT5!

What problems you mean?

MT4 and MT5 … trading view looks like the power ranger robot while MT4 and MT5 are like the original… Voltron. hehehehe… never could flow with trading view … i guess it may have something to do with the view itself… hahahah… nice to meet yah!

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I use MT5 since it has more advanced features compared to MT4. I practice on a demo account in Prime Codex and CMC Market. I also practice in Trading View.

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Can you delpoy the same EA’s you can use on MT4 on TradingView?

Though I can’t say for sure, I don’t think so. I searched the internet but came up empty-handed.

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mt5 - a bit faster than mt4, best for news trading
what about acttrader? does anyone use that platform for news trading?

this is right - you can’t use the same ones because the programming language is different

there are plenty of commercial services around who can “convert” an MT4 EA for use on TradingView, though, but i believe they do it more or less by complete “deconstruction and reconstruction”, rather than by “translation” (i’m told that a company called “Nordman” is a well-known and respected one, if anyone wants to google them)

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Would you mind explain more about this?

Yeah, it is not possible because each platform use a different format. The conversion process is mostly construction and reconstruction as you said.

Are you talking about the desktop app, or the web version? I started out using their web version (several years ago) and found it very glitchy, which is what lead me to TV (which is my preferred platform, as you know).

Since that was a few years ago maybe I should give it another try, maybe they’ve worked out the bugs by now.

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desktop

yes, i see - makes sense (i’ve never used Oanda’s web version at all, had even forgotten there was one)

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