Forex trading platform (also called trading software) is a program that you use when you trade. Compared with several years ago, there is an abundant variety of trading platforms with different features and options. A question that every forex beginner must be having is which is the best forex platform and why?

Most forex traders strongly believe that MetaTrader is the best forex platform available today. You have to understand, though, that there are a lot of different versions of MetaTrader. Most forex brokers alter their trading platform: add different features, time zone settings, trading options. However, all MetaTrader platforms share the same amount of trading capabilities.

Below is the screen shot of a typical MetaTrader 4:

I personally like MetaTrader software because it is user-friendly and convenient enough. It doesn’t take long to figure out where all the trading tools are and how to use them. Most importantly, it gives you exactly what each forex trader need:

1. There is very simple zoom in and zoom out options. You have a little button on the right side of each window (with a little square). With one click you can increase and decrease the size of the charts. 
2. Different time frames are available: 1 minute, 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours, daily, weekly and monthly time frames. Actually, there is an option to create any time frame you want.
3. You have an option of different chart views – bar chart, line chart, candlestick chart.
4. There are tones of trading indicators at your disposal:
   • Trend indicators: Bollinger Bands, Commodity Channel Index, Moving Average, Parabolic SAR, Standard Deviation and average Directional Movement Index.
   • Volumes: Accmulation/Distribution, Money Flow Index and On Balance Volume.
   • Bill Williams: Accelerator Oscillator, Alligator, Awesome Oscillator, Fractals, Gator Oscillator and Market Facilitation Index.
   • Oscillators: Momentum, MACD, RSI, Stochastic Oscillator, DeMarker, Bears Power, Bulls Power, Envelopes, Force Index, Average True Range, Ichimoku Kinko Hyo, Moving Average of Oscillator, Realetive Vigor Index and William's Percent Range.

Let’s not forget that there are also custom indicators, meaning that you can build your own indicator! And the best part of it all, you don’t need to know any programming to do so!

5. There are great chart drawing tools available - Arrows, Vertical, horizontal and trendline, different text labeling and Fibonacci: 1-Timezone. 2- Expansion. 3- Channel. 4- Retracement. 5- Fan, and much more drawing colors and options. Very impressive!
6. You also have an access to a special "Expert Advisors" system. It helps you to design your “Auto Trading” system. I personally never use it, because I just don’t believe in artificial intelligence in forex trading! But that just me. I bet there are enough forex traders that enjoy this tool and make profits with it.
7. Among other things, there is strategy tester. You can use it to test one or several indicators.

There are many trading platforms with different features and options. Some of them are actually more advanced than MetaTrader, however it still favored the most by forex trader today.

I wouldn’t argue about the importance of forex trading platform, however I believe that it is much more important to find a good forex broker first. Without the reliable broker even the best trading platform worth nothing.

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