New v7.35 of the Personal Trade Copier and Internet Trade Mirror - Sunday, 19th July 2020

An update, v7.35, is available for the Personal Trade Copier and Internet Trade Mirror software.

There are no bug-fixes in this new release. It adds the following features:

  • FixedSLPipsIfNone setting in the Sender EAs. If an order has no stop-loss, the Sender can now be configured to broadcast a default stop-loss to the receiver(s).
  • IncludeMagicNumbers in the Sender EAs can now read a list of permitted magic numbers from a file on disk.
  • MinSLPips setting in the Receiver EAs. This can be used to enforce a minimum stop-loss on all orders.
  • CalculateRiskFactorFromBalance setting in the Receiver EAs. If turned on, risk-based lot sizing (UseRiskFactor) is calculated using account balance instead of account equity.
  • The use of MT4 global variables in the Receiver EAs has been expanded to provide control over the software's lot sizing.

FX Blue charts beta - Monday, 23rd April 2018

We are pleased to announce beta testing of our free online financial charting.

  • Time periods from tick and second charts up to weekly and monthly
  • Hundreds of technical indicators and drawing tools
  • Multiple layouts, multiple windows
  • Apply indicators to other indicators, and set alerts
  • Unique, flexible drawing features, for creating the perfect chart
  • Write your own User-Defined Indicators in simple javascript

Click here to launch the charts

Queen's Award for Enterprise 2018 - Monday, 23rd April 2018

We are proud to announce that FX Blue has been awarded a Queen's Award for Enterprise – the UK's highest accolade for business success.

The award was given to FX Blue for International Trade in recognition of its substantial and sustained year on year growth in overseas sales. Over the last eight years, FX Blue has rapidly expanded its global client base and currently supplies FinTech solutions to banks and brokers in over 20 countries and free trade analytics and software services to retail traders in over 120 countries worldwide.

To celebrate the award, and to thank our global userbase for its support, FX Blue is launching a beta test of free web-based financial charting.

Bitcoin spreads - Saturday, 18th November 2017

We are pleased to announce that we have started to collect weekly summaries of brokers' spreads on Bitcoin.

Click here to view the Bitcoin spread data

GDAX cryptocurrency indicators for MT4 and MT5 - Saturday, 11th November 2017

We are pleased to announce the release of indicators for MT4 and MT5 which display cryptocurrency prices from the GDAX exchange (www.gdax.com).

The indicators draw the GDAX prices on an MT4/MT5 chart, letting you compare the GDAX prices against your broker's prices for instruments such as Bitcoin. You can use the indicator to help to identify future price movements arising from differences, or arbitrage opportunities.

Click here to try out the MT4 GDAX indicator or MT5 GDAX indicator

Adjusting order times in uploaded trading results - Saturday, 11th November 2017

We are pleased to announce that there is now an option to adjust the order times reported by your broker when uploading trading results to FX Blue (via account sync or one of the publishing tools).

For example, if your broker runs at GMT+2, you can now convert all the order times to GMT (or vice versa).

The Settings page for your account now includes a section where you can choose the adjustment to apply, and the number of hours to add/substract to the broker's order times. Changes take effect when trading results are next uploaded for your account.

Click here to view the new settings

New v7.27 of the Personal Trade Copier and Internet Trade Mirror - Saturday, 11th November 2017

A minor update, v7.27, is available for the Personal Trade Copier and Internet Trade Mirror software.

This fixes a bug if using negative filtering on magic numbers in the Sender EA (for example, setting the IncludeMagicNumbers parameter to a value such as !12345).

There is no need to update the software from v7.26 unless you want to use negative filtering on magic numbers.

Cryptocurrency prices in the tick chart widget - Saturday, 11th November 2017

We are pleased to announce the addition of Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum prices to the tick chart widget, using data from the GDAX exchange (www.gdax.com).

You can view these prices in the copy of the widget on the home page of FX Blue, and you can display this widget on your own website.

Click here for more information about the market data widgets

MT5 version of the Sentiment Indicator - Monday, 18th September 2017

We are pleased to announce that an MT5 version of the Sentiment Indicator is now available. Like the MT4 version, this shows current and historic sentiment from users of the FX Blue website plotted against price. A comprehensive user guide for the indicator is available both as a downloadable PDF and also on-line.

Click here to download the Sentiment Indicator for MT5

Downloads of the statement analysis grid - Sunday, 3rd September 2017

The Analysis tab of the Statement now has an option for downloading the grid of data, in CSV format. Any of the grids - by symbol, direction, hour of day etc - can now easily be downloaded into Excel or other spreadsheet software for further analysis.

New v7.26 of the Personal Trade Copier and Internet Trade Mirror - Sunday, 3rd September 2017

A minor update, v7.26, is available for the Personal Trade Copier and Internet Trade Mirror software.

The new version adds a BalanceDateForDrawdown parameter. This can be used to tell the Copier to base drawdown calculations on the trading up to (but not including) a specific date, rather than using the current balance.

For full information on these new features, please see the user guides:

New v7.25 of the Personal Trade Copier and Internet Trade Mirror - Wednesday, 2nd August 2017

We are pleased to announce that a new v7.25 is available of the Personal Trade Copier and Internet Trade Mirror software.

Additions in the new version include:

  • Ability to block new trades if there is an existing trade for the symbol (CheckForExistingPosition setting)
  • New lot sizing mode which trades a fixed amount of the deposit currency (NotionalDepositVolume setting)
  • Ability to change the drawdown calculation so that the Receiver only looks at its own orders (CalculateProfitFromOnwOrdersOnly setting)

For full information on these new features, please see the user guides:

Recent additions to the account sync list - Wednesday, 2nd August 2017

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include SuperForex, Tradize, LongAsiaGroup, Acenya, plus new or updated servers for several other brokers.

Click here to try out account sync

Updates to the FX Blue Trading Simulator for MT4 and MT5 - Tuesday, 16th May 2017

We are pleased to announce enhancements to the Trading Simulator for MT4 and for MT5:

  • You can now place trades while the Simulator is paused. For example, you can set the Simulator to pause when each bar ends, and place a new trade before resuming the Simulator. The trade is placed as soon as you un-pause the simulation.
  • As well as clicking on the markers on the chart, you can also edit open positions or pending orders from the Account Info list in the Settings section of the Simulator. The detail of each trade in the Account Info is now a link for opening the pop-up editing window.
  • MT4 only: you can now create monthly (MN1) offline charts, in addition to the existing options for H1, D1 etc

The option for creating monthly offline charts in the MT4 Simulator requires a new download of the software from the website. The other changes take effect automatically and do not require a new download.

Consecutive win-loss statistics - Saturday, 13th May 2017

We are pleased to announce the addition of further statistics about consecutive wins and losses, and a new dynamic chart widget which shows the distribution of sequences of wins and losses.

The new statistics are available both on the Analysis tab of the Statement, and also in the Stats tab. You can now easily view information about consecutive wins and losses for each symbol, or each strategy, or for hours-of-day or days-of-week.

The new chart is available on the Statement tab, and are also available as widgets which you can use on your own website or blog.

New features in Slingshot - Sunday, 7th May 2017

We are pleased to announce that some of the the premium features of Slingshot, are now available in the standard version, for all users:

  • Creating private unlisted pages on the website
  • Adding a welcome URL to the installer
  • Adding DLL files to the installer

Click here for more information about Slingshot

Account info widgets - Monday, 24th April 2017

New dynamic account widgets are available, showing an overview of your account; a summary of its returns; and its risk profile. For example:

New v7.20 of the Personal Trade Copier and Internet Trade Mirror - Thursday, 13th April 2017

We are pleased to announce that a new v7.20 is available of the Personal Trade Copier and Internet Trade Mirror software.

Additions in the new version include:

  • Optional trailing stops in the Receiver (overriding the Sender's stop-loss)
  • Cap on maximum losing trades per day (in addition to the existing cap on total trades per day)
  • Further checks for unreliable broker connections

For full information on these new features, please see the user guides:

New Renko indicator for MT4 - Wednesday, 12th April 2017

We are pleased to announce a new Renko indicator, replacing the Renko and range functionality in the Custom Timeframe Generator.

The new indicator can draw the Renko blocks on a normal MT4 chart (as blocks of varying time/width), as well as creating an offline chart with a more traditional view which is not time-based. You can configure it to show the prices at which new blocks will form, and set up alerts whenever a new block starts.

Click here for more information about the new Renko indicator

Recent additions to the account sync list - Wednesday, 12th April 2017

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include MEX, Tradesto, Prestige, GIFX, BlackBullMarkets, KGI, ForexChief, plus new or updated servers for several other brokers.

Click here to try out account sync

Push notifications in the MT4 Auto-Restart - Thursday, 2nd March 2017

The MT4 Auto-Restart app can now send push notifications as well as email and SMS. You need to set up push notifications in MT4's Tools / Options / Notifications, and then turn on the PushNotification setting in the EA and configure the text to be used (LostConn_PushText and RestoreConn_PushText).

Market data widgets - Saturday, 11th February 2017

We are very pleased to announce the release of a set of market data widgets which you can use on your own website.

The widgets which are currently available are a tick chart, a quote board, and a feed of FX Blue's Price Action News.

Example widget:

Click here for more information about the market data widgets

Recent additions to the account sync list - Thursday, 8th February 2017

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include Fidelis, CoreSpreads, TFB, FOG, TegasFX, plus new or updated servers for several other brokers.

Click here to try out account sync

Slingshot - Saturday, 28th January 2017

We are very pleased to announce the release of Slingshot, an easy way of distributing an MT4 chart and also all the .ex4 files for custom indicators or an EA on that chart.

Example uses of Slingshot:

  • Providing files to support a webinar - clients can easily get the same chart set-up and all the indicators used by the trainer in a webinar
  • Sharing your favourite chart set-up with other people
  • Copying trading settings between MT4 installations on your own computer – either indicator settings for manual trading, or an EA and the parameters you are using
  • Distributing an EA or custom indicator to clients, together with recommended or example settings

Click here for more information about Slingshot

New v7.10 of the Personal Trade Copier and Internet Trade Mirror - Friday, 20th January 2017

We are pleased to announce that a new v7.10 is available of the Personal Trade Copier and Internet Trade Mirror software.

Additions in the new version include:

  • Improved memory usage
  • Improved handling of lost broker connections. If MT4 loses its connection to the broker, the software does additional checks that it is receiving the complete list of open positions from the broker.
  • Ability to set different lot-size multipliers for different symbols, using the CustomLotMultipliers setting (principally to handle different CFD contract sizes on the sending and receiving accounts)
  • Ability to delay the copying of positions for a set time (WaitForSeconds), or until a minimum profit is achieved (WaitForProfitPips)
  • Ability to control the maximum number of trades which are copied per day (MaxTradesPerDay)
  • Ability to control the trade copying using MT4 Global Variables.
  • Additional clarification and diagnostic information in the user guides.

For full information on these new features, please see the user guides:

Screenshots in the Alert Forwarder - extra options - Wednesday, 28th December 2016

An updated version of the Alert Forwarder is now available, for both MT4 and MT5.

The update lets you set your own dimensions for screenshots which the Alert Forwarder creates. You can also override the filename which the Alert Forwarder uses when saving screenshots.

Click here to try out the MT4 Alert Forwarder or MT5 Alert Forwarder

Update for the Account Monitor - alerts on drawdown - Wednesday, 9th November 2016

An updated version of the Account Monitor app is now available.

The updated version lets you set alerts on drawdown (floating P/L divided by balance), in addition to the existing alerts on equity and margin. You can also now send SMS alerts through www.nexmo.com in addition to the existing option to use www.clickatell.com.

Click here to try out the Account Monitor

QuickChannel for MT5 - Friday, 4th November 2016

We are pleased to announce the release of a version of our QuickChannel developer library for MT5.

An MT5 version has in fact always been available: MT4 and 32-bit MT5 use the same DLL and imports, and a 64-bit DLL was previously included in the MT4 download. However, we have now created a separate installer for MT5. We have also updated the user guide to make the MT5 usage more clear.

Click here to try out QuickChannel for MT5

Alert Forwarder for MT4 and MT5 - Saturday, 8th October 2016

We are pleased to announce the release of a new monitoring app for MT4 and MT5: the Alert Forwarder.

The Alert Forwarder lets you add email, SMS, Twitter and push notifications to EAs or indicators which do not offer this themselves. For example, if an EA or indicator displays a pop-up alert in MT4/5, you can use the Alert Forwarder to turn this into an email or a push notification.

The app can also be used to scan the MT4/5 Journal, generating alerts about events such as disconnections or failed orders.

In addition, the app can be configured to take screenshots of its chart when an event is detected, allowing later diagnosis of problems, inspection of trade set-ups etc. For example, you can use it to take a screenshot of an indicator's chart whenever that indicator writes a particular entry to the logs.

Click here to try out the MT4 Alert Forwarder or MT5 Alert Forwarder

Recent additions to the account sync list - Friday, 7th October 2016

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include Indigo, TempleFX, Vipro, Mentari, NixonFx, VerumFX, VIF, plus new or updated servers for several other brokers.

Click here to try out account sync

FXStreet Trader of the Year Contest 2016 - Friday, 16th September 2016

FX Blue is proud to provide the technology for FXStreet's 10th edition of the Trader of Year Demo Contest, sponsored by Hantec Markets.

Participants will need to trade on a Demo account during one month and the five best performers at the end of the competition period will win prizes related to Forex trading. Registration is already open and it will close on 30th September 2016 at 22.00 GMT.

Contestants must open a demo account with Hantec Markets via FXStreet’s website. All participants will start with USD 10,000 of virtual funds in their trading accounts. At the start of each new week, demo account balances will be reset to USD 10,000 and the account history will be deleted.

All contestants will receive a daily statement at the close of the market in order to keep track of their weekly trades.

The sponsor of the contest is Hantec Markets, a leading forex broker, offering online foreign currency trading with No Dealing Desk Forex (FX) execution.

For more information about the competition, and to register, please see http://www.fxstreet.com/info/contest/

Chart Quick-Tools for MT4 and MT5 - Wednesday, 7th September 2016

We are pleased to announce that a new suite of chart tools is available for MT4 and MT5.

The Chart Quick-Tools are a suite of scripts for making changes to all open charts at once. For example: adding an indicator to all charts at once, or copying settings such as colours and zoom-level, or synchronising all charts to show the same timeframe.

Indicator Quick-Add

Adds an indicator to all charts. You add the indicator to one chart, and then run the script which copies the indicator (including all settings such as colours and parameters) onto all the other charts.

Indicator Quick-Remove

Removes an indicator from all charts.

Copy Chart Settings

Copies chart settings such as colours, zoom level, chart-shift etc from one chart onto all other charts.

Apply Chart As Template

Applies a chart as a template to all other charts - copying over not only settings such as colours and zoom level, but also all indicators, graphical objects, and any EA which is attached to the chart.

Set Chart Symbol

Sets all charts to the same symbol.

Set Chart Timeframe

Sets all charts to the same timeframe.

Click here for more information about the Chart Quick-Tools

V3 of the FX Blue Trading Simulator for MT4 - Tuesday, 6th September 2016

We are delighted to announce that a new v3 is available for the Trading Simulator for MT4.

The new version offers multiple timeframes (via offline charts); Smart Lines, which let you control trades by drawing lines on the chart; and keyboard shortcuts.

Click here for more information about the MT4 Trading Simulator

MT5 version of EACopy - Monday, 8th August 2016

We are pleased to announce that an MT5 version of EACopy is now available. Like the MT4 version, this gives you a simple and fast way of copying files such as EAs and indicators between different installations of MT5.

(EACopy is not a trade copier. If you are looking for a trade copier, please see our Personal Trade Copier.)

Click here for more information about EACopy for MT5

Changes to the Internet Trade Mirror - invitations, and redesign - Saturday, 30th July 2016

We are pleased to announce that we have simplified the pages for our very popular Internet Trade Mirror - including, for the first time, a direct link to the Mirror from the site's main navigation bar.

We have also added a facility for signal-senders to issue invitations to their subscribers. This simplifies the process of setting up new users with the Mirror:

  • You enter the subscriber's email address. The website sends an automatic invitation email.
  • The subscriber follows the link in the email, and creates an account with FX Blue.
  • The subscriber's FX Blue account is then automatically linked to your sending account.

Click here for more information about the Internet Trade Mirror

Portable-mode option in the MT4 Auto-Restart - Sunday, 17th July 2016

The MT4 Auto-Restart now has an option for restarting MT4 in "portable" mode.

Recent additions to the account sync list - Sunday, 17th July 2016

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include NobleTribe, PerfectLion, ArenaForex, MatadorPrime, WaterGarden, Tahoe, AceForex, Titan, HydraMarkets, SGDMarkets, MaxFX, AuraFX, plus new or updated servers for several other brokers.

Click here to try out account sync

Multi-symbol simulations in the MT5 Trading Simulator - Sunday, 12th June 2016

Our Trading Simulator for MT5 now has some support for multi-symbol simulations.

Although you cannot change the price chart which the MT5 Strategy Tester Visualization displays, you can now place orders on other symbols, and monitor and close the orders using the Simulator's close-panel or the account info.

Click here to download the MT5 Trading Simulator.

MT5 account sync - Monday, 23rd May 2016

We are very pleased to announce that account sync is now available for MT5 accounts.

You can continue to use our Publisher EA for MT5, but the new account sync makes it possible to publish your trading results without needing to download any software, and without needing to have your trading platform running.

The MT5 account sync supports both netting accounts and also the new hedging accounts in MT5.

Click here to register an MT5 account.

MT5 version of the Trading Simulator - Monday, 23rd May 2016

We are very pleased to announce that an MT5 version of our hugely popular Trading Simulator for MT4 is now available for beta-testing.

Like the MT4 version, the MT5 Trading Simulator lets you use the MT5 Strategy Tester Visualization as a way of practising manual trading under historic conditions. The Simulator supports both netting accounts and the new hedging accounts in MT5, and supports both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of MT5.

Click here to download the MT5 Trading Simulator.

Spread-of-returns charts available as widgets - Monday, 23rd May 2016

New dynamic charts are now available showing the spread of returns on your trading activity. These charts were previously only available on the Risk tab of your results, but are now also available as widgets which you can use on your own website or blog.

There are two versions of the charts: daily and weekly.

New version of the Publisher EA for MT5 - Monday, 2nd May 2016

We are pleased to announce that a new version of the Publisher EA for MT5 is available. This supports the new hedging-style accounts which are now available in MT5 (and continues to support both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of MT5).

Click here to download the MT5 Publisher EA.

Charts of trade relationships - Friday, 18th March 2016

New dynamic charts are now available showing information about the relationships between trading activity, e.g. between instrument and direction, or between time of day and trade-result. For example:

The new charts are available on the Statement tab, and are also available as widgets which you can use on your own website or blog.

There are two versions of the charts: figures based on the count of the number of trades, and figures based on trading volume.

Charts of wins and losses - Saturday, 6th February 2016

New dynamic charts are now available, showing information about winning and losing trades. There are four new charts: totals of wins and losses on a monthly, weekly, and daily basis; and a chart which shows the sequences of wins and losses on the account (in order of trade-closure).

The new charts are available on the Statement tab, and are also available as widgets which you can use on your own website or blog. For example:

Using QuickChannel in VBA in Microsoft Excel - Tuesday, 19th January 2016

The user guide for QuickChannel has been updated, clarifying how to use it in VBA code in Microsoft Excel (e.g. in order to send messages from Excel to MT4, or to receive messages in Excel from MT4). In particular, the updated user guide explains how to collect messages in the VBA code, using the QC_GetMessages5W() function.

This does not require an update or a new download of QuickChannel. The existing version of the DLL already contains all the necessary functionality for use in Excel.

For more information about using QuickChannel in Excel, please see the online user guide.

Million Dollar Trader live trading competition - Wednesday, 13th January 2016

FX Blue is excited to announce the launch of AxiTrader's Million Dollar Trader competition - a live-account trading competition with a prize of a USD$1,000,000 trading account for the winner.

Charts of performance range - Saturday, 2nd January 2016

New dynamic charts are now available, showing the range of perforamance (banked profit) within each week or month. The new charts are available on the Statement tab, and are also available as widgets which you can use on your own website or blog. For example:

Happy New Year!

New version of the Account Monitor - Tuesday, 8th December 2015

A new version is available of the desktop Account Monitor app. The update includes sub-totals for each group of accounts.

(If you are already running the software then you should be prompted about the availability of this new version within the next 24 hours.)

New version of the MT4 Publisher EA - Sunday, 6th December 2015

A new version (v3.41) of the MT4 Publisher EA is available. This is designed to improve resource usage on computers which are running several MT4 installations and several copies of the EA. (There is no need to update unless the Publisher EA is reporting problems.)

Recent additions to the account sync list - Friday, 27th November 2015

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include NordHedge, Knight, Berndale, Spartan FX, plus new servers for several brokers including FBS, GKFX, and Oanda.

Click here to try out account sync

Charts of lots traded - Saturday, 21st November 2015

New dynamic charts are now available, showing the number of lots traded on a monthly, weekly and daily basis. You can use the filtering on your results to show only the trades for a single symbol. In addition, there is a chart which shows a monthly breakdown of the trading for each symbol.

The new charts are available on the Statement tab, and are also available as widgets which you can use on your own website or blog.

An example of the new charts is as follows:

Table of monthly returns - Sunday, 8th November 2015

A table of monthly % returns is now available, both as an option which you can select from the list of charts on the Statement page, and also as a widget which you can use on your own website or blog.

An example of the table is as follows:

Expanded market data section in the Connect area - Friday, 30th October 2015

We are pleased to announce that we have made substantial enhancements to the market data in the Connect area of the site, building on the existing view of market depth and expanding it into a comprehensive overview of market data.

You can now view key market movements in a powerful widget which shows top movers, range vs move, currency strength etc. The expanded section also includes analysis from our Price Action News, and a clickable interactive session map which shows up-coming calendar events and a summary of trading in each market session.

We have also taken the separate section of Connect showing our cross-broker long/short sentiment, and combined it into this new market data area. The new view also makes it easier to compare the sentiment on multiple instruments.

New widgets for broker competitions - Friday, 30th October 2015

A substantial new range of responsive widgets is now available for use in broker trading contests on www.fxblue.com.

In addition to the existing widgets and data facilities, brokers running competitions through FX Blue now have access to a highly configurable, flexible, elegant set of new widgets for displaying the results of a competition on their own website.

All the widgets are responsive to different device sizes such as mobiles and tablets, and can be tailored to your own branding using a wide range of parameters or bespoke CSS.

To read more about the expanded range of widgets, please see the user guide or contact your FX Blue account manager for more information.

Pausing the Trading Simulator on each new bar - Friday, 23rd October 2015

A new version of the the Trading Simulator is available for download. This adds an option to pause the simulation automatically at the start of each new bar. You can read more about these new options in the updated user guide.

The user guide also contains a new section 6.3 describing how to solve a problem with the MT4 strategy tester module where it terminates as soon as you place the first trade.

New chart: trade duration vs pips - Monday, 19th October 2015

We are pleased to announce that a new chart is available for analysing your trading results: a plot of trade duration (in hours) versus the profit in pips on each trade. This complements the existing chart for analysing duration versus profit in cash.

This chart is available on the Statement tab, is also used on the Risk tab, and is available as a widget which you can use on your own website or blog.

Online user guides - Thursday, 15th October 2015

We are pleased to announce that the user guides for most of our apps are now available as online HTML versions, in addition to the PDF files included in the download of each app.

You can now check out the latest version of a document without needing to re-download its app.

For example, the Personal Trade Copier has always included an option to copy existing positions which are already open when the Copier starts running, but this is now documented more clearly (in section 3.12) of the user guide for the app:

Personal Trade Copier user guide

Recent additions to the account sync list - Thursday, 15th October 2015

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include KTM, Charterprime, AETOS, and FxGrow, plus new servers for several brokers including ForexClub, Alpari, and LCG.

Click here to try out account sync

Recent additions to the account sync list - Wednesday, 26th August 2015

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include Esteem, Hydra, Aetos, Garuda, and FxUnited, plus new servers for several brokers including Alpari, Blackwell, ADS, GKFX and ThinkForex.

Click here to try out account sync

New version of the Publisher app for FXCM TS2 - Monday, 3rd August 2015

We are pleased to announce that there is a new version of the Publisher app for FXCM TS2.

The new version incorporates the latest build of FXCM's ForexConnect API, and now lets you set up to 5 accounts in a single instance of the Publisher app (instead of having to install the app multiple times, once for each account).

New version of the Sentiment indicator - Monday, 3rd August 2015

We are pleased to announce that there is a new version of the Sentiment indicator for MT4.

The new version redraws more quickly, and has been updated to take advantage of recent changes in MT4.

Please note that the indicator name has changed, from "MT4i - Trader Sentiment" to "FX Blue - Trader Sentiment". The installer does not remove old copies of the indicator. You will need to remove the old indicator from any charts where it is being used, and replace it with the new indicator.

New v2.03 of TradeTalk - Sunday, 26th July 2015

We are pleased to announce that a new v2.03 is available of TradeTalk.

You can now choose to receive alerts whenever the s/l or t/p changes. Options include only receiving alerts when the s/l or t/p change from zero (i.e. are now set, but were not previously), or alerts about every change in the s/l or t/p. Please note that the latter can lead to large numbers of alerts if you or your trading system is using any kind of trailing stop.

You can also choose to receive pop-up MT4 alert messages on screen, in addition to the existing option to send alerts via email, SMS, Twitter, or MT4 push notification.

New v7.03 of the Personal Trade Copier - Monday, 13th July 2015

We are pleased to announce that a new v7.03 is available of the Personal Trade Copier. This includes three enhancements:

  • The IncludeSymbols parameter in the Sender and the PermittedSymbols parameter in the Receiver can now be prefaced with ! to turn them into exclusion lists. For example, !EURUSD,GBPUSD means "allow all symbols except for EURUSD and GBPUSD".
  • There is a new IgnorePartialExits parameter which tells the Receiver to ignore partial closes on the Sender. The original volume is left untouched on the Receiver until the final portion of the trade is closed on the Sender.
  • There is a new CustomPipSizes parameter in the Receiver which lets you override the default calculation of the pip-size to use for each symbol (mainly useful on CFDs). For example, you can specify the pip-size you want to use for gold and silver using a parameter such as "XAUUSD=0.10,XAGUSD=0.10" (depending, of course, on your broker's symbol names for gold and silver).

Full information on these new features is included in the revised user guide which is supplied in the software download.

New version of EACopy - Sunday, 12th July 2015

A new version of EACopy is available. This includes three enhancements:

  • Files can now be copied into the Tester subdirectory of MT4 (as well as the existing options for copying into Tester\History and Tester\Files)
  • EACopy attempts automatic detection of the type of .ex4 file you are copying, setting the Location field accordingly (e.g. setting Location to MQL4\Indicators if your .ex4 file is a custom indicator)
  • EACopy now accepts a range of command-line options for running it on an automated basis. Please see section 3 of the revised user guide which is supplied with the software.

New version of the MT4 Publisher EA - Sunday, 12th July 2015

A new version (v3.4) of the MT4 Publisher EA is available. This update is to handle one specific broker who includes carriage-return characters in their comments for deposits and withdrawals. (There is no need to update unless the Publisher EA is failing to publish your trades to the website, and specifically says that it needs to be updated.)

Improvements to the Trade Mirror - Saturday, 2nd May 2015

We are pleased to announce two major enhancements to the Internet Trade Mirror:

  • The free subscriber limit has been increased to 100 (from 40)
  • There is a new version of the Mirror sender and receiver EAs, adding in the same functionality as recent additions to the Personal Trade Copier

The new versions of the Mirror EAs are compatible with the old versions (e.g. receiver on new version and sender on old version). Updating is not compulsory.

There is a further enhancement which is currently being tested:

  • Choice of message hubs in different geographical locations (e.g. Australia, Japan), to reduce latency between senders and receivers

The new versions of the Mirror EAs let you choose between the main hub and one in Australia. Please note that this new Australian hub is currently for testing only. We will be adding further hubs after completion of testing of the Australian hub.

There are two changes to the rules about adding new subscriber accounts (plus the increase in the limit from 40 to 100):

  • Subscribers must complete email verification of their FX Blue account. You cannot add subscribers to your list until they have verified their accounts using the service at https://www.fxblue.com/validate/email.aspx
  • You cannot have more than 2 subscribers with the same email address. Adding a new subscriber is not allowed if there are already two accounts on the list with the same email address as the new subscriber.

For more information about the Internet Trade Mirror, please see https://www.fxblue.com/internettrademirror

Updated versions of the email and SMS libraries - Thursday, 16th April 2015

We are pleased to announce that new versions are available for both the email library and SMS library.

In both cases, the installation is now fully automated and requires no manual steps. The architecture of the email library has been changed to make the installation easier (replacement of a .NET library with an executable applet). The SMS library now supports an extra SMS provider: Nexmo (www.nexmo.com), in addition to Clickatell.

Version v7.01 of the Personal Trade Copier - Tuesday, 7th April 2015

Version 7.01 of the Personal Trade Copier has finished its beta testing and is now the main live version.

Recapping previous information about the beta versions, changes in the Copier are as follows:

  • New facilities which help you to distinguish between multiple instances of the Copier - textual description on the chart, and colour-coding of Copier instances
  • Ability to risk a maximum cash amount, or % of equity or balance, in combination with a fixed stop-loss for all trades
  • Ability to create pending orders offset from the sender's entry price for positions, via a new EntryOffsetPips parameter
  • Separate permitted trading times for each day of the week
  • Extended the partial-close handling to work with fixed lot sizes (UseFixedLotSize parameter)
  • Fixed an issue where multiple channels could be affected if one receiving copy of MT4 lost its broker connection
  • Additional diagnostic information in the user guide

Click here to download the Personal Trade Copier.

New version of TradeTalk - Friday, 3rd April 2015

An new version of TradeTalk is available. The changes are as follows:

  • Fully automated installation - components such as the email library no longer have to be downloaded separately, and installed manually
  • Addition of Nexmo (www.nexmo.com) as an available SMS provider, in addition to Clickatell

Click here to download TradeTalk.

Beta version v7.01 of the Personal Trade Copier - Tuesday, 31st March 2015

An updated beta version 7.01 is available for the Personal Trade Copier.

This update adds extra information on the EA's chart, and includes new facilities which help you to distinguish between multiple instances of the Copier. You can change the EA's background colour (i.e. you can colour-code different Copier installations) and you can set a textual description as part of the information which the Copier displays on screen.

Click here to download the beta version of the Personal Trade Copier.

Beta version v7.00 of the Personal Trade Copier - Friday, 20th March 2015

We are pleased to announce that a new beta version is available for the Personal Trade Copier. Changes in this new beta version are as follows:

  • Ability to risk a maximum cash amount, or % of equity or balance, in combination with a fixed stop-loss for all trades
  • Ability to create pending orders offset from the sender's entry price for positions, via a new EntryOffsetPips parameter
  • Separate permitted trading times for each day of the week
  • Extended the partial-close handling to work with fixed lot sizes (UseFixedLotSize parameter)
  • Fixed an issue where multiple channels could be affected if one receiving copy of MT4 lost its broker connection
  • Additional diagnostic information in the user guide

Click here to download the beta version of the Personal Trade Copier.

Partial closes and breakeven s/l or t/p in the Trading Simulator - Sunday, 8th March 2015

We are pleased to announce enhancements to the very popular Trading Simulator: the ability to do partial closes, and to set a break-even s/l or t/p.

The Simulator creates markers on the chart for each open position or pending order, and clicking on one of these markers opens a pop-up window for modifying the position/order. This window now has a facility for doing partial closes, and the options for modifying the s/l or t/p now include a break-even mode.

Click here for more information about the Trading Simulator.

Recent additions to the account sync list - Sunday, 8th March 2015

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include ODMarkets, VIPortal, ConcordBay, plus new servers for several brokers including Admiral Markets, IC Markets, Synergy, and XM.com.

Click here to try out account sync

"Pip" size on gold and silver - Monday, 9th February 2015

We are changing the definition of the "pip" size which our trade analysis uses on gold and silver, from the current value of 1.00 to 0.10.

This reflects a change in the majority of what FX Blue users want. It means that the cash value of one pip's movement on gold and silver is now more in line with the cash value of pips on most forex symbols. (There is no "correct" or "official" value for the pip size on non-fx symbols; it is an arbitrary convention. For example, a poll of users asking what the pip size should be on gold gives substantial numbers of votes for all of 1.00, 0.10, and 0.01)

For more information about pip sizes, please see the FAQ.

Publisher app and account sync for Oanda fxTrade accounts - Saturday, 31st January 2015

We are pleased to announce that you can now publish trading results from Oanda fxTrade accounts, using the new publisher app for Oanda, or account sync.

This service is currently in beta, and only Practice accounts are currently supported.

If you trade with Oanda using MT4, you can also (continue to) use our publisher EA or account sync for MT4. The new facilities are specifically designed for Oanda's non-MT4 accounts.

New version of the Custom Timeframe Generator - Thursday, 15th January 2015

There is a new version of the Custom Timeframe Generator which adds the ability to create Renko charts. The app has also been optimised for use with the latest version (v765) of MT4.

Recent additions to the account sync list - Thursday, 15th January 2015

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include EliteTrader, Birchwood, and USG, plus new servers for several brokers including ForexTime, Boston Technologies, FXOpen, FTT, LiteForex, and Tallinex.

Click here to try out account sync

Recent additions to the account sync list - Saturday, 18th October 2014

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include NoaFX and NCSEC, plus new servers for Invast, FXSalt, Sensus, ETX, and Oanda.

Click here to try out account sync

Another update to the Trading Simulator - Sunday, 28th September 2014

There is another update to the Trading Simulator: you can now move the entry price of pending orders, and you can pause the simulation from inside the Simulator (using the settings button and its menu) instead of having to use the button in the MT4 backtesting pane.

New version of the Trading Simulator - Friday, 19th September 2014

There is a new version of the Trading Simulator with an option to pause the simulation when a t/p or s/l is hit. You can use this facility to go back and inspect the trade history, or you can set the backtesting to maximum speed while a trade is open if you intend to leave it to hit either its s/l or t/p. Please see section 3.4 of the updated user guide for more information.

Version 6.06 of the Personal Trade Copier - Tuesday, 9th September 2014

A new version v6.06 of the Personal Trade Copier is available. This fixes an error when a symbol being copied from a sender does not exist in the receiving copy of MT4.

New version of the Data Integrity Checker - Tuesday, 9th September 2014

A new version of the Data Integrity Checker for MT4 is available. This has been re-built for full compatibility with the latest version of MT4.

Recent additions to the account sync list - Tuesday, 9th September 2014

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include Bfx, Belfor, OneFX, and PriorFX, plus new servers for FXCM, Alpari, FXPIG, Goldboro, and OneFX.

Click here to try out account sync

Version 6.05 of the Personal Trade Copier - Wednesday, 6th August 2014

A new version v6.05 of the Personal Trade Copier is available. The ForexSymbolSuffix parameter can now be set to "none", telling the receiver EA that the broker does not use a suffix for its symbols. (Leaving the parameter blank causes the EA to auto-detect the suffix, which can be problematic with brokers offering two versions of each symbol such as EURUSD and EURUSD_Avg.)

Recent additions to the account sync list - Wednesday, 6th August 2014

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include Valutrades, FxMars, COFX, and GIO, plus new servers for JFD and Sensus.

Click here to try out account sync

Version 6.04 of the Personal Trade Copier - Monday, 14th July 2014

A new version v6.04 of the Personal Trade Copier is available. This fixes a DLL import problem when running on the ancient Windows Server 2003.

Enhancements to cTrader account sync and publisher app - Tuesday, 8th July 2014

A new version of the publisher app for cTrader is available. This now calculates and publishes margin usage for open positions.

cTrader accounts using account sync will automatically benefit from this enhancement. You do not need to make any changes. Your results will start showing margin usage with immediate effect.

(Please note that the cTrader API does not provide an "official" figure for margin usage. Our apps have to calculate this based on current instrument prices and cTrader's margin rules.)

Internet Trade Mirror free usage increased to 40 subscribers - Saturday, 5th July 2014

The cap on free usage of the Internet Trade Mirror has been raised from 20 subscribers to 40 subscribers with immediate effect.

Version 6.03 of the Personal Trade Copier - Saturday, 5th July 2014

A new version v6.03 of the Personal Trade Copier is available. This is based on the version previously in beta, which had been re-built for use with v600+ of MT4.

v6.03 adds the ability to do manual partial closes of trades on the receiver without the receiver EA then closing the remainder of the position (because previously it did recognise the new ticket number following the manual partial close).

Please note that the name of the EA has changed, to match the change in the site's name from MT4i to FX Blue. You can transfer to using the new version by saving the settings for the existing EAs (using the Save button on the Input's tab of MT4's properties for the EA), and then loading those saved settings when starting the new version of the EA. We strongly recommend that you test this transition on a demo account before trying it on a live account.

Recent additions to the account sync list - Saturday, 5th July 2014

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include Alfaforex, WithFX, ACCFX and NCSEC, plus new servers for Traders Trust, Activtrades and Exness.

Click here to try out account sync

New version of QuickChannel - Saturday, 28th June 2014

There is a new version of the QuickChannel developer library, with two main additions:

  • The documentation includes examples of using QuickChannel in non-MT4 applications, such as C# programs
  • The installation now includes a 64-bit version of QuickChannel, e.g. for use in 64-bit MT5

This new version of QuickChannel is being issued under our new FX Blue name, in advance of the name-change next weekend.

MT4i is changing its name to FX Blue - Wednesday, 25th June 2014

We are excited to announce that, because our services now work on multiple trading platforms, we are rebranding from MT4i to FX Blue.

You don't need to do anything. Everything will continue to work as it does now, and typing in www.mt4i.com will simply track through to www.fxblue.com.

We will be making the changes to the website on the weekend of 5/6 July.

Version 2 of the Trading Simulator - Saturday, 7th June 2014

Version 2 of the Trading Simulator has completed its beta test and is now fully released.

V2 includes a number of extra features, such as the ability to edit orders after placement with the same full range of options which are available when first placing an order - for example, edit the stop-loss on an option position to set it to a new cash amount such as $50.

Click here for the new version of the Trading Simulator

Updated beta version of the Personal Trade Copier - Wednesday, 28th May 2014

There is an updated beta version of the Personal Trade Copier, with several small improvements in areas such as suffix detection and conversion of equity to USD.

The beta version has been created because "old" EAs continue to run on v600+ of MT4, but the backward-compatibility is not perfect. New EAs are more reliable on v600+ of MT4 than old EAs.

Click here for the beta version of the Personal Trade Copier

Recent additions to the account sync list - Wednesday, 28th May 2014

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include SRDresdner and DCFx, plus new servers for Markets.com, Valbury, Ava, and FxPrimus.

Click here to try out account sync

NZD historic equity and floating P/L - Saturday, 3rd May 2014

The site now handles calculations of historic equity and floating P/L for accounts with a deposit in NZD (though please note that all such calculations are approximate).

Recent additions to the account sync list - Saturday, 12th April 2014

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include IGO FX, mForex, and SolForex, plus new servers for Iron FX, Alpari UK, Tallinex, and BlueStar.

Click here to try out account sync

New beta version of the Trading Simulator - Saturday, 29th March 2014

A new version of the Trading Simulator is available as a beta. The new version has an enhanced design with many more trading options such as reversing and hedging positions.

Please note that this new version of the Simulator requires v600 or later of MetaTrader 4, and will not work with copies of MT4 which are still on v509 (or older).

Click here for the beta version of the Simulator.

Version 1.53 of the Personal Trade Copier - Tuesday, 25th March 2014

A new version v1.53 of the Personal Trade Copier is available.

This fixes a problem with reloading the EA (e.g. changing its parameters, or changing the timeframe of its chart) in v600+ of MT4.

Please note that there is also a beta version of the Personal Trade Copier which is compiled specifically for v600+ of MT4.

New beta version of the Personal Trade Copier - Monday, 24th March 2014

There is a new beta version of the Personal Trade Copier, re-compiled specifically for use with v600+ of MT4. This version will not work with any copies of MT4 which are still on v509 (or older).

This new version has been created because "old" EAs continue to run on v600+ of MT4, but the backward-compatibility is not perfect. New EAs are more reliable on v600+ of MT4 than old EAs.

Click here for the beta version of the Personal Trade Copier

New version of EACopy - Tuesday, 11th March 2014

There is a new version of the EACopy tool for distributing files into multiple installations of MT4.

This not only adds support for v600+ of MT4, but also contains a huge number of new features and a complete redesign which is more closely integrated with Windows Explorer.

Click here to read more about EACopy

Recent additions to the account sync list - Monday, 3rd March 2014

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include new servers for Forex.com, HFMarkets, Boston Technologies, and QTrade.

Click here to try out account sync

New version of QuickChannel - Thursday, 20th February 2014

There is a new version of the QuickChannel developer library, containing additional functions for use with v600+ of MT4 (i.e. Unicode-compatible functions). QuickChannel can now be used on both v500 and v600 of MT4, without needing complex string manipulations in order to translate between Ansi and Unicode on v600.

Recent additions to the account sync list - Wednesday, 12th February 2014

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include new servers for Global Prime, Price Markets, ETX, and Invast.

Click here to try out account sync

New version of the MT4 Publisher EA - Wednesday, 5th February 2014

A new version is available of the Publisher EA for MT4.

Old versions of the EA need to be updated for use with v600 of MT4, because v600 is not fully backward-compatible with v509. (Files created by EAs are no longer put in the experts\files directory of MT4, and the Publisher needs an update in order to detect the new location of these files.)

New version of the Personal Trade Copier - Wednesday, 5th February 2014

A new version v1.52 of the Personal Trade Copier is available.

This works round a bug in the new v600 of MT4 where an EA's initialisation routine can corrupt its string memory, particularly if the EA is already attached to a chart when MT4 (re-)starts up. Previous versions of the Copier can report message-corruption errors on v600. (The error messages are logged by the receiver EA, but the issue is in fact in the sender EA.)

(The bug in MT4 v600 seems to be related to the fact that v600 can call the init() function in an EA multiple times, particularly when starting up with the EA already attached to a chart. These calls to init() can be concurrent, and this seems to corrupt the EA's memory, particularly if the EA carries out any string operations in init(). This is clearly a bug in MT4 v600: init() should only be called once, and problems are arising from the fact that MT4 calls it multiple times. This is related to, but separate from, similar bugs which were reported to MetaQuotes during beta-testing.)

Experimental: historic floating P/L and equity now available for USD cent accounts - Sunday, 2nd February 2014

Calculations of historic floating P/L and equity are now available for USD cent accounts (currencies USC or USD100). Please note that the new functionality is experimental, and all such historic calculations are always an approximation.

Recent additions to the account sync list - Sunday, 2nd February 2014

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include Tarsier, ROCO, and ACM Gold, plus new servers for Iron FX and MIG.

Click here to try out account sync

Recent additions to the account sync list - Sunday, 26th January 2014

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include Strategon, NetStock ECN, and new servers for Iron FX, IG, and Alpari.

Click here to try out account sync

New version of the Internet Trade Mirror - Wednesday, 15th January 2014

A new version 1.50 of the Internet Trade Mirror software is available.

The new releases standardises its functionality (and version number) with the Personal Trade Copier.

Changes and additions include the following:

  • Improved detection of the offset between broker time and GMT
  • Added a CentAccount setting for lot sizing
  • Added the ability to use a fixed comment on each copied order (UseCustomOrderComment)
  • Fixed a (non-critical) issue where the software's private log file could not be created in new installations of v574 of MT4
  • Fixed a bug with the AddPipsToTP setting in the sender EA.
  • Several clarifications in the user manuals, e.g. about lot sizing and about copying speed

New version of the Personal Trade Copier - Wednesday, 15th January 2014

A new version v1.50 of the Personal Trade Copier is available.

Changes and additions include the following:

  • Added a CentAccount setting for lot sizing
  • Added the ability to use a fixed comment on each copied order (UseCustomOrderComment)
  • Fixed a (non-critical) issue where the software's private log file could not be created in new installations of v574 of MT4
  • Fixed a bug with the AddPipsToTP setting in the sender EA.
  • Several clarifications in the user manual, e.g. about lot sizing and about copying speed

New version of the Custom Timeframe Generator - Monday, 13th January 2014

A new version 1.3 of the Custom Timeframe Generator is available.

The format of chart files will change in the next version of MT4, due for release shortly, and you will need to update any utilities which create .HST files.

Recent additions to the account sync list - Monday, 13th January 2014

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include IG, Hirose, FXOpen UK, Altair, Excel Markets, BTC, LMAX, and several new servers for brokers such as FXCM, Exness, and Ava.

Click here to try out account sync

New version of the Publisher for FXCM TS2 - Tuesday, 9th July 2013

A new version of the Publisher for FXCM TS2 accounts is available.

The new version uses FXCM's ForexConnect API instead of their old Order2Go API. It has a faster, simpler installation and does not require frequent updates to the Order2Go framework.

The new version also has additional settings, such as an option to re-publish whenever orders are opened or closed. It also displays an overview of your account status within the publisher app itself, without needing to visit the website.

Click here to download the FXCM Publisher

New version of the Personal Trade Copier - Tuesday, 9th July 2013

A new version of the Personal Trade Copier is available (v1.41).

Additions include the following:

  • Improved handling of partial closes
  • Ability to copy order comments from the sender account (UseOriginalOrderComments parameter) - but please see section 3.11 of the manual for notes about the disaster-recovery implications
  • Alerts about rejected orders by email as well as on screen
  • Limit on the maximum spread when trading (MaxSpreadPips parameter)
  • Control of maxium deviation on instant-execution brokers (MarketOrderSlippageParameter parameter, not applicable on market-execution brokers)
  • Immediate trade closure if slippage is too large (ImmediateCloseOnSlippagePips parameter)
  • New variable for use in alert messages: {PNLPIPS}

Recent additions to the account sync list - Tuesday, 9th July 2013

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include Monex, Forex Nation, LandFX, Starfish, Tallinex, Charter Prime, Jaden, Sensus Capital, and Bossa FX.

Click here to try out account sync

New publication option: embedding MT4i in your own web pages - Sunday, 21st April 2013

We are very pleased to announce a new option for displaying trading results on your own website: you can now embed charts, analysis, and statements on your own site using a simple iframe.

Your visitors can view comprehensive information about your trading activity without needing to leave your own site. The embedded page includes interactive charts, a condensed version of MT4i's analysis, plus sophisticated features such as filtering and the ability to create bespoke analysis charts.

Click here for more information about the iframe

New version of the Custom Timeframe Generator - Monday, 26th November 2012

We have added further options to the Custom Timeframe Generator. The tool now has the ability to force simulated ticks on the offline chart which it creates, and to adjust the time of the bars on the offline chart, e.g. creating an H1 chart which is 5 hours behind broker time.

More symbols in the trader sentiment - Monday, 26th November 2012

We have added further symbols to the trader sentiment, available both on the website and in the downloadable MT4 indicator: EUR/JPY, GBP/JPY, and XAU/USD

Click here to view the trader sentiment

Javascript API now includes several extra fields - Sunday, 25th November 2012

Several extra fields have been added to the Javascript API recently: number of winning and losing trades, number of pips banked on winners and losers, risk/return ratio, initial deposits on the account etc.

Click here for an example of the Javascript API

Invitation-only competitions - Sunday, 25th November 2012

By popular demand, we have made a change to invitation-only competitions. You can now continue to send out further invitations after a competition has started, provided that the "allow late entrants" setting is turned on.

New version of the Personal Trade Copier - Tuesday, 2nd October 2012

A new version of the Personal Trade Copier is available.

The new version has improved auto-detection of the ForexSymbolSuffix parameter, catering for brokers who have two versions of each symbol: an untradeable symbol such as EURUSD which is only included for internal purposes, and a second symbol such as EURUSD# which is the actual tradeable version. The Trade Copier will now auto-detect the suffix as #, avoiding the need to set the ForexSymbolSuffix parameter manually.

The Trader Copier also now has MaxSenderLotSize and MinSenderLotSize parameters. These are similar to the existing IgnoreOrdersSmallerThanLots and IgnoreOrdersLargerThanLots filters, but apply to the original lot size on the sender, not the adjusted size which the receiver is about to trade.

New version of the Internet Trade Mirror - Tuesday, 2nd October 2012

A new version of the Internet Trade Mirror software is available.

This inherits all recent changes to the Personal Trade Copier - for example, the improved auto-detection of the ForexSymbolSuffix parameter, and the new MaxSenderLotSize and MinSenderLotSize parameters.

Range bars in the Custom Timeframe Generator - Monday, 10th September 2012

By popular demand, we have added the ability to create range bars in the Custom Timeframe Generator.

As well as tick charts and non-standard time periods, the Custom Timeframe Generator can now create charts of range bars. For example, you define a range such as 10 pips, and the software then creates a chart where each candle has the same range (i.e. 10 pips) and a variable duration in time depending on how long it takes the market to move the specified distance.

Spread Controller, version 2 - Saturday, 11th August 2012

MT4i is pleased to announce the release of a new version of one its most popular tools: version 2 of the Spread Controller.

The purpose of the Spread Controller remains the same, but the process has become much simpler and quicker. You simply run one script after starting MT4. After that, you will be prompted at the start of each backtest to change the spread which is about to be used. There is no longer a need to restart MT4 after each change of spread, or to disconnect MT4 from the broker.

Trading Simulator for MT4 - Wednesday, 1st August 2012

After a "soft launch" in the Apps section of the website, MT4i is pleased to announce the official launch of our trading simulator for MT4.

The MT4i Trading Simulator converts the MetaTrader 4 strategy tester into a tool for practising manual trading using historic data. You can use the Simulator to test how well you would have fared under particular historic market conditions - and/or to check how well your favourite indicators would have guided you in the past.

The Simulator lets you place market and pending orders, set trailing stops, alter the s/l and t/p on orders by clicking on the chart, save complex order definitions as templates, quickly close all open orders, plus many more features which are not available as standard in MetaTrader 4.

Price Action News - Wednesday, 1st August 2012

After a "soft launch" in the Apps section of the website, MT4i is pleased to announce the official launch of our Price Action News.

The Price Action News indicator displays the feed for a symbol such as EURUSD on a chart in MetaTrader 4. You can set up alerts which notify you whenever a new event occurs, and you can undock the news into a floating window or minimize it so that it takes up the smallest possible amount of chart space.

You can also follow the news on Twitter, at twitter.com/mt4inews

Custom Timeframe Generator for MT4 - Saturday, 5th May 2012

MT4i is pleased to announce the launch of a new free tool for traders: the Custom Timeframe Generator which lets you create charts for timeframes which are not natively supported by MT4.

The software can create both tick charts and time-based charts, for periods such as M3, H2, 10-seconds etc. The software can create historic bars for periods such as M3 from historic M1 data, and can optionally interpolate missing bars on shorter timeframes (e.g. create empty bars on a 10-second chart if there are no ticks within a 10-second period).

Apps section of the MT4i website - Saturday, 5th May 2012

We have reorganised the "Tools" section of the MT4i website and renamed it as the Apps section.

You should find that the new layout is easier to navigate, and provides a clearer indication of apps which are related to each other. The list continues to be divided into trader and developer tools, but there is now extra categorisation within the list of trader tools.

New features in MT4i Mobile - Saturday, 5th May 2012

New features have been added to the mobile version of the MT4i website.

Trade information now includes the order comment and magic number, and you can view recently closed trades as well as open trades by clicking on the list of recent days which is shown in the account stats.

New version of the Personal Trade Copier - Saturday, 5th May 2012

A new version of the Personal Trade Copier is available.

The new version includes further filters on the trades which are copied. You can specify minimum or maximum lot sizes, and also provide a list of trading hours during which orders should be copied, e.g. between 7am and 10am and between 2pm and 8pm.

Recent additions to the account sync list - Saturday, 5th May 2012

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include AFB, FECH, FX Choice, and Integral, plus additional servers for PrimeXM, Alpari, ATC, Global Prime, InvestorsEurope, Universal FX, IBFX, Axiory, Synergy FX, Enfinium, Pepperstone, HotForex, and Exness.

Click here to try out account sync

Internet Trade Mirror free usage increased to 20 subscribers - Monday, 13th February 2012

The cap on free usage of the Internet Trade Mirror has been raised from 5 subscribers to 20 subscribers with immediate effect.

There is also an updated version of the receiver EA also with a new StopTradingAtDrawdownPercent parameter. This is similar to the existing StopTradingBelowEquity parameter, but stops trading activity when floating P/L exceeds the specified percentage of account balance.

New version of the Personal Trade Copier - Monday, 13th February 2012

A new version of the Personal Trade Copier is available.

A single sender EA can now send trades to multiple receivers. It is no longer necessary to run a separate sender for each receiver. For example, you can enter "Receiver1,Receiver2" as the Channel parameter for the sender, and that single EA will then broadcast messages to the receiver EAs with the Channel parameters "Receiver1" and "Receiver2".

The receiver EA also has a new StopTradingAtDrawdownPercent parameter. This is similar to the existing StopTradingBelowEquity parameter, but stops trading activity when floating P/L exceeds the specified percentage of account balance.

Trading competition with $4,000 cash prizes - Thursday, 19th January 2012

Refund FX has teamed up with MT4i to offer a forex trading challenge with $4,000 in cash prizes to the highest grossing accounts over a 1 month period beginning 1 February.

* Registration for the competition is now open: please visit http://www.mt4i.com/competitions/refundfx

* Prize money is given as a cash prize into the live trading account of your choice. There are no restrictions on this prize money. You can freely withdraw or trade as you like.

* Starting with a $5,000 demo account, competitors will trade using Refund FX's MT4 multi broker platform, which allows you to choose from a number of different brokers.

* All contestants that enter will also receive a free copy of the Bilo Run EA valued at $199.

Refund FX is an ASIC regulated introducing broker that pays you a cash rebate every time you place a trade. Visit www.refundfx.com.au for more information.

More brokers in the account sync list - Monday, 16th January 2012

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include AFX, FXCentral, RealForex, ForexFX, ECN Alpha, FXTrend, FXPig, MasterForex, Renesource, SVS, vPE, In-Arabia, IC Markets, BestEx, and PrimeXM.

Click here to try out account sync

New versions of the Personal Trade Copier and Internet Trade Mirror - Thursday, 29th December 2011

The Personal Trade Copier and Internet Trade Mirror have both been updated.

Both applications now have a BuySellOnly parameter which controls whether the copying will place long/short orders, and both also have MaxOpenOrders_Total and MaxOpenOrders_FromCopier parameters for controlling the number of open/pending orders.

New version of the MT5 publisher EA - Thursday, 8th December 2011

A new version of the Publisher EA for MetaTrader 5 is available. This has been updated to work with the new build 555 of MT5 which is (yet again) not backward-compatible with existing EAs.

Click here to download the MT5 Publisher EA

New versions of the Personal Trade Copier and Internet Trade Mirror - Tuesday, 22nd November 2011

The Personal Trade Copier and Internet Trade Mirror have both been updated.

The Personal Trade Copier has gained better support for unusual partial-close handling on some brokers, plus extra logging.

The Internet Trade Mirror has the same changes, plus a fix for a bug in the receiver when the sender is broadcasting a relatively large list of open orders.

New version of the MT5 publisher EA - Tuesday, 15th November 2011

A new version of the Publisher EA for MetaTrader 5 is available. This has been updated to work with the new build 540 of MT5 which is (again) not backward-compatible with existing EAs.

Click here to download the MT5 Publisher EA

More brokers in the account sync list - Tuesday, 15th November 2011

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include PFG Best, Prime Bank Forex, Excel, GrandCapital, UnitedForex, SynergyFX, TradeFort, and WorldPro.

Click here to try out account sync

Restricting access to your results - Sunday, 16th October 2011

In addition to setting a PIN on your account, you can also now restrict access to specific MT4i users. If you turn on this new feature, people can only see your results if they are logged in to an MT4i account on the "white-list" which you set up.

To use this new feature, log in to your account and use the new settings in the "Report PIN and/or access list" section.

Social networking links - Wednesday, 5th October 2011

You can now add social-networking links to your results, helping to publicise your trading activity. This new option adds Facebook, Twitter, and Google +1 links to your statement and stats pages.

To turn on the links, log in to your account and use the new setting in the "System description, and publication options" section.

Click here for an example of the social network links

Tabbed statement view - Wednesday, 5th October 2011

You can now choose between the traditional statement view versus a tabbed version which makes it easier to navigate the order history on large accounts. (The tabbed version is already in use for portfolios, and is also used automatically on accounts with more than 10,000 orders in their history).

The tabbed view also provides more flexible sorting of orders, and allows the order history to be filtered to pick out particular entries.

In addition, you can insert your own web content into the tabbed view. For example, you can add a tab promoting yourself, your EA, or just containing further information about the results you are publishing.

To turn on the tabbed view, log in to your account and use the new settings in the "System description, and publication options" section.

Click here for an example of the tabbed statement view

MT4i has moved to a new datacentre - Saturday, 24th September 2011

MT4i has moved to a new datacentre this morning. Everything should transfer seamlessly, but please do let us know if you are having any problems with any aspect of the site.

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More brokers in the account sync list - Tuesday, 13th September 2011

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include Cantor Fitzgerald, Vantage FX, CollectiveFX, ILQ, UWC, Forex4You (EGlobal), and new servers for Pepperstone.

Click here to try out account sync

Internet Trade Mirror - free trade copying over the internet - Monday, 12th September 2011

Following the huge popularity of MT4i's Personal Trade Copier, we have now launched the Internet Trade Mirror: free trade copying over the internet between different computers running MetaTrader 4.

The Internet Trade Mirror has all the functionality which has attracted thousands of users of the Personal Trade Copier. Senders can control which trades are broadcast. Receivers can control which trades are copied, and can alter lot sizing and other risk settings, and can even invert the direction of the sender's trades. The Mirror automatically converts between 2DP/4DP and 3DP/5DP brokers, and between different broker symbol names such as EURUSD and EURUSDcx. The Mirror supports partial closes, market execution, and allows the receiver to control slippage or simply place all orders at market.

The Internet Trade Mirror is currently in beta and restricted to 5 subscribers per account. Please contact us for an increased limit, or for a version of the software which you can run from your own server.

Click here to try out the MT4i Internet Trade Mirror

New versions of the Publisher EAs for MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 - Monday, 12th September 2011

New versions of the Publisher EAs for MT4 and MT5 are now available.

The new MT4 EA builds its results faster, particularly on accounts with large numbers of trades in their history, and uses a different publication mechanism with better support for Linux servers which are running MT4 and other Windows software through an emulator.

The new MT5 EAs (32-bit and 64-bit) also use the new publication mechanism, and add support for text containing non-ANSI characters (e.g. Cyrillic broker names).

Both EAs continue to allow publication of results as frequently as every minute, with immediate re-publication following new trading activity.

Try out the MT4 Publisher EA or MT5 Publisher EA

Custom symbol mappings and trade reversal in the Personal Trade Copier - Monday, 29th August 2011

There is an updated version of the Personal Trade Copier which allows custom symbol mapping between brokers. For example, if the sending broker refers to spot gold as GOLD, and the receiving broker uses XAUUSD, then you can now define rules which convert between the different symbol names.

The new version of the Personal Trade Copier also allows trade direction to be inverted, so that a buy on the sender account becomes a sell on the receiver account etc.

Click here to try out the Personal Trade Copier

Strategy tags - Sunday, 28th August 2011

The "EA" tab of the Stats page has become the "Strategy" tab, because of the addition of a new feature: Strategy Tags.

Strategy Tags let you analyse manual trading, or automated systems which use each order's comment to distinguish between different strategies. You create tags which match part or all of an order comment, and the Strategy tab then automatically updates each time your results are published.

You don't need to manually assign tags to each trade after publishing your results. You set up your tags once, and the system does all the work for you after that, based on the comment you enter when placing each trade.

Click here for more information about Strategy Tags or view an example

More brokers in the account sync list - Sunday, 28th August 2011

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include FIG-FX, Traders Trust, UpFX, TyTradium, GCI, and additional servers for ODL and MIG.

Click here to try out account sync

Update to the Personal Trade Copier - Thursday, 18th August 2011

There is an updated version of the Personal Trade Copier which allows filtering of orders based on the order comment. In other words, you can choose only to copy some of the trades on the sending account, based on the comment for the order as well as its magic number and symbol.

Click here to try out the Personal Trade Copier

ForexPros.com added as a news provider in Connect - Monday, 8th August 2011

ForexPros.com has been added as a news provider in Connect. Their news feeds are available in 11 different languages.

Click here to try out MT4i Connect

More brokers in the account sync list - Saturday, 6th August 2011

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include IntelFX, Finexo, STS, Admiral, Inovatrade, FBS, and Sunbird.

Click here to try out account sync

New site design - Sunday, 31st July 2011

The look of the MT4i site has changed a little over this weekend.

The new design creates a little extra space on screen, and also loads slightly faster on all desktop browsers. (It also now loads much faster on devices such as iPhones, though please note that there is a special version of the site for mobile devices.)

Extra filtering on order comments - Wednesday, 13th July 2011

The filtering on order comments has been extended to allow exact matches.

You can now start a match with = to mean "this exact, case-sensitive comment". For example, =MyEA will only match against the order comment "MyEA", and not against "myea" or "myea v1".

You can combine this with other matches in a comma-separated list. For example, =MyEA,/MyEA2 will match against the order comment "MyEA" or any comments which start with "MyEA2".

For more information about filtering on order comments, please click here.

Javascript API now includes pending and open orders - Tuesday, 12th July 2011

The Javascript API now includes a list of open and pending orders. You can use this new data to build lists of orders for display on your own website.

Click here for an example of the Javascript API

More brokers in the account sync list - Tuesday, 5th July 2011

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include Hantec, ThinkForex, Divisa, Fienex (FXCBS), and Pepperstone.

Click here to try out account sync

Hiding your entire order list - Wednesday, 29th June 2011

You can now choose to hide your entire order list on MT4i, so that visitors can only see statistics, not the individual orders.

To turn this on, log into your MT4i Live account and turn on the setting "Make your order list private". You can also change this setting from the account sync page.

If you only want to hide open and/or pending orders, not closed orders, then you can continue to do this using the settings in our Publisher EA or the account sync settings.

Click here for an example of a hidden order list

Filtering on order comments - Saturday, 25th June 2011

You can now filter results based on order comments, in addition to the existing options to filter by date, lot size, symbol, direction etc.

(You need to be publishing your order comments in order to use this facility. If you are using the MT4/MT5 publisher EAs then you need to turn on the "PublishOrderComments" parameter. If you are using account sync then the "Publish order comments" option is turned on by default.)

The text you enter is matched against any part of the order comment. For example, "close" matches against either of the comments "partial close" or "close by hedge". If you only want to match against the start of the order comment, then use / at the start of the text, e.g. "/close".

You can also specify different comments, separated by commas. For example, "close,/partial" matches against any order comments which contain "close", or against any comments which start with "partial". And you can preface the whole list with ! to mean "all orders except those matching this list of comments".

Competitions system out of beta - Friday, 24th June 2011

MT4i's Competitions system is now officially out of beta. However, we will be continuing to add further features to the system over the coming weeks based on the valuable feedback we have received from users.

Please note that the rules have changed regarding deposits and withdrawals during a competition. Previously, competitors were disqualified if they made deposits or withdrawals during a competition, though this was not enforced during the beta period. The new rule is that deposits and withdrawals are allowed, but they are treated as though they were made at the start of the competition. In other words, growth is calculated as: current equity / (starting equity + deposits)

Click here to try out MT4i Competitions

More brokers in the account sync list - Thursday, 23rd June 2011

Several more brokers have been added recently to the list available for use with account sync. The additions include FXPrimus, RoboForex, Goldstein, plus extra servers from GoMarkets and HotForex.

Click here to try out account sync

FXStreet added to the news feeds in MT4i Connect - Friday, 17th June 2011

FXStreet (http://www.fxstreet.com/) has been added to the list of news providers in MT4i Connect.

Click here to try out MT4i Connect

New version of Personal Trade Copier - Thursday, 16th June 2011

A new version of the Personal Trade Copier is available. The new version provides better support for Oanda accounts where the order comment is automatically modified by Oanda.

Click here for more information about the Personal Trade Copier

MT4i Connect - Tuesday, 7th June 2011

MT4i is delighted to announce the launch of MT4i Connect, a free service with unique features for registered users:

  • The smart news widget: Create your own customised news feeds! Add the RSS news feeds of your choice and in your own language. Filter by subject and time, and save filters for quick re-use in future - e.g. "show me all EUR/USD news in the last 4 hours"
  • Economic calendar: View up-coming news events, filter by priority, and set alarms.
  • Account dashboard: Collect all your broker accounts (and those of your friends, if they let you) in one place. Click through to see the detailed analysis, and view the account details from your mobile phone using MT4i Mobile.

Click here to try out MT4i Connect

MT4i news service - Sunday, 5th June 2011

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