New article at mql5.com: MetaTrader 5 - More Than You Can Imagine!

[MetaQuotes]

New article MetaTrader 5 - More Than You Can Imagine! is published at mql5.com:

The MetaTrader 5 client terminal has been developed from scratch and far surpasses its predecessor, of course. The new trading platform provides unlimited opportunities for trading in any financial markets. Moreover, its functionality keeps expanding to offer even more useful features and convenience. So now it is now quite difficult to list all numerous advantages of MetaTrader 5. We have tried to briefly describe them in one article, and we got surprised with the result - the article is far from brief!

The development of MetaTrader 5 started in 2007. MetaTrader 5 was conceived as a revolutionary, multi-market platform that can run on Forex, as well as on any other financial market. A lot of work has been done since then, and the result of this work is the platform that provides unlimited opportunities to traders. In this article we will talk about all the key features of MetaTrader 5 and carry out a comparative analysis with the previous version of the trading platform.

1. Charts
   
   • Customization and 21 Timeframes
   • Advantages of 1-Minute Bars
   • Indicators
   • Analytical Tools
   • Precise Time Scale
   • Economic Calendar
2. Navigator
   
   • Find a Server by the Broker's Name
   • Grouping of Programs
   • Further Development of Programs
   • Downloads from the Code Base
3. Trading
   
   • Position Netting
   • Six Types of Pending Orders
   • One-Click Trading
   • Modification of Trade Levels on the Chart
   • Asynchrony and Multithreading
   • Execution of Operations on the Stock Exchange
   • Trading from the Depth of Market
   • Additional Execution Terms
   • Push Notifications
4. Toolbox
   
   • Exposure
   • Calendar
   • Market
   • Code Base
5. Testing and Optimization
   
   • Advanced Testing Report
   • Increased Accuracy of Every-Tick Testing
   • More Testing Modes
   • Custom Optimization Criterion
   • Optimization Cache and XML Report
   • Automatic Download of History and Synchronization of Timeframes
   • Forward Testing
   • Stress Testing
   • Multi-threaded Optimization
   • Testing Clouds of Remote Agents
   • MQL5 Cloud Network
   • Ease of Agents Management
   • Mathematical Calculations
   • 2D and 3D Visualization of Optimization Results
   • Visual Testing
   • Any Custom Results during Optimization
6. Integration with MQL5.community
   
   • Market
   • MQL5 Cloud Network
   • MQL5 Storage
   • Code Base
   • Alerts
   • Articles
7. MetaEditor
   
   • New File System
   • MQL5 Wizard
   • Personal Code Repository MQL5 Storage
   • Fast Compilation of C++ DLL
   • Intelligent Code Control
   • Code Styler
   • Code Highlighting
   • Unicode Support
   • Inserting Resources
   • Global Search and Integration with MQL5.community
   • Debugging
   • Projects
8. The MQL5 Programming Language
   
   • Greater Operation Speed
   • Code Protection
   • Similarity to С++
   • Classes and Structures
   • Events
   • Management of Charts, Objects And Resources Directly from MQL5
   • New Indicator Drawing Styles
   • Ease of Work with Indicators
   • A Huge Standard Library and a Lot of Examples
   • OpenCL Support
9. Services for Traders and Developers
   
   • Jobs
   • Market
   • MQL5 Storage
   • MQL5 Cloud Network
   • Alerts

Author: MetaQuotes

[Jon Grah]

why does metatrader 5 not offer seconds charts? Why only one minute incriments?

[onewithzachy]

4evermaat:
why does metatrader 5 not offer seconds charts? Why only one minute incriments?

So you can create one. That's what's MQL5 is for :D