You can customize the look and feel of your charts. You can export and import your data and preferences.

Another very important feature is that every Forex MetaTrader broker keeps an archive of historical prices and these prices are available for download through your MT4 system. You can use these prices to test your own strategies or you can run the robots on these data thus testing how profitable it will be. Many other parameters such as slippage, Stop-Loss and Take Profit available at time of placing an order, etc., to detailed to over them here!

Below you will find a link to a list of all known Forex MetaTrader brokers. Here's some of the most popular ones, for your convenience:

• IBFX
• FXCM
• Alpari
• FXDD

Keep in mind that even though there are lots of Forex MetaTrader brokers out there you will need to choose the one which is most suitable for your trading style and preferences! Not all Forex MetaTrader brokers are equal! Although they all offer essentially the same trading software to their clients, their internal account settings such as swap rates, minimum lot sizes, spreads, etc. may be quite different. Some may not be suitable to your trading style!

For example - if you plan to use "scalping" strategies or scalping EA's you will need to go with a forex MetaTrader brokers which is STP or NDD. These are acronyms for "straight through processing" and "no dealing desk" and essentially mean that your broker is not a Market Maker broker. You see... while many MM brokers often look for ways to take advantage of their clients and trade against them, the STP brokers really don't care whether their clients' trades are winning or losing. Because their client's win is not the brokers' loss since they don't take a counter part to their clients' trading transactions! Hence the NDD Forex brokers will only be too happy to know that their clients do well as this way they will stay as their clients longer and bring them more commissions. By the way - ECN which stands for "Electronic communication network" is another name for STP or NDD brokers.

How to find out whether your broker trades against you? Ask them! Don't be shy! Call them, email them or chat with their CS reps. It's a good idea to ask them even before you download the demo software, whether they are STP or NDD broker. If they start giving you vague answers instead of a clear Yes or No - then you know that these particular forex MetaTrader brokers are not STP/NDD/ECN.