While there are a number of FX Trading Platforms available in the market, MetaTrader4 (MT4) is the most popular. Most of the larger brokers have developed their own internal trading platforms (Examples: FXCM, Saxo Bank, LMAX, CFH), but these trading platforms haven’t managed to take much market share away from MetaTrader4 because of MetaTrader’s extensive White Label (WL) business and their very popular Expert Advisor (EA) trading systems. Currently, cTrader is probably the biggest competitor to MetaTrader, but still holds a relatively small percent of the overall market share. Our recommended choice to traders is MetaTrader4 due to it’s popularity and unmatched amount of functionality.
Social Trading Platforms have been gaining in popularity over the last 5 years. Here are links to some of the most popular social trading platforms: