This depends on which account you applied for, and which feed you wish to trade on. Our accounts team will provide you with the proper terminal to download for your account when your account is approved.

As a general rule of thumb, most clients trade on the ECN. You can download the ECN MT4 Platform here. DMA clients can download the DMA terminal here.

* Note: when connecting to your MT4 account via a mobile or table app, you need to connect to the corresponding server (ECN or DMA). The ECN server to search for is named: AtlanticPearl-Live 1 and the DMA server to search for is called MTCOOK-Live 5.

ECN Clients should connect to the following servers:

• Live Accounts: AtlanticPearl-Live 1
• Demo Accounts: AtlanticPearl-Demo

DMA clients should connect to the following servers:

• Live Accounts: MTCOOK-Live 5
• Demo Accounts: MTCOOK-Demo

To ensure you are seeing all the tradeable symbols associated with your account type, you may need to load all market symbols in to your trading terminal, as Metatrader does not always load them all by default.

You can do this by selecting ANY trading symbol in the market watch window, then right click it, and select “Show All”. This will load all the symbols for you, as shown below..

For ECN clients, the symbols you will trade on will not have any extension (example: EURUSD and XAUUSD etc etc…).

DMA clients will have either a “.” or an “x” extension depending on what liquidity source you are accessing (example: EURUSD. or EURUSDx etc etc…).

DEMO clients will not have any extensions on the symbol sets (example: EURUSD).

*NOTE: As per the FAQ above, to ensure you are seeing all the tradable symbols associated with your account, it is important that you load all market symbols in to your terminal, as Metatrader does not always load them all by default. You can do this by selecting any symbol in the market watch window, then right click, and select “Show All”. This will load all the symbols for you, as shown below..

Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (simplified, PRC), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Farsi/Persian, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Mongolian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese.

The best way to learn how to use all the features with MetaTrader 4, is to read the MetaTrader 4 Client Terminal User Guide – designed by Metaquotes themselves (the makers of MetaTrader 4). You can view and go through all steps of the user guide here: https://www.metatrader4.com/en/trading-platform/help.

If you are just learning how to use the platform, it is often a good idea to practice trade on a demo account first prior to trading live so you can familiarize yourself with some of the features.

Most people find the program very user friendly after using it for only a short while. When using the program, you can access the help docs at any time by pressing the “F1” key, or using the Help menu tab within the trading terminal.

1.) You first need to download and install the mobile app. You can download the iOS app for iPhones and iPads here and for Android smartphones and tablets here.

2.) Once installed you must “Login to an Existing Account”, and search for the broker’s server to connect to.

ECN Clients should search for, and connect to the following servers:

• Live Accounts: AtlanticPearl-Live 1
• Demo Accounts: AtlanticPearl-Demo

DMA clients should search for, and connect to the following servers:

• Live Accounts: MTCOOK-Live 5
• Demo Accounts: MTCOOK-Demo

3.) After selecting your server, you will be prompted to enter your login (account number) and password. After entering these, click “Sign In” and this should connect you to your trading account.

You can view the specifications for the asset classes you wish to trade on the following pages…

• Forex
• Metals
• Indices
• Energies
• Crypto

ECN MT4 Server (AtlanticPearl-Live 1) in NYC:
Server time switches between GMT +2 when Daylight Saving Time is not in use from October to March and GMT +3 for the remainder of the year when it is in use.

DMA MT4 server (MTCOOK-Live) in London:
Server time switches between GMT +2 when Daylight Saving Time is not in use from October to March and GMT +3 for the remainder of the year when it is in use.

* NOTE: If your EA or algo is sensitive to, or dependent upon calculating trade server GMT offset time, it is always best to double check the server times at each daylight savings time (DST) change-over in both the fall and spring, just to be sure, as we are subject to changes based on the datacentres where we lease our servers and rack space from and thus, Mt.Cook does not assume any liability in changes to our standard GMT Offset schedule, nor can we gaurantee it will always remain the same. You can track GMT time here: https://greenwichmeantime.com/ and the difference between this time and our server time will be your GMT offset (i.e. if GMT time is 03:00am and our server time reads as 06:00am, this means that our server GMT offset time is GMT +3).

There are no restrictions to the type of trading you can do, however please note that highly sensitive or predatory strategies may not, or will not, work well in the live market. Extremely sensitive strategies such as tick scalping, hyper scalping, arbitrages, news-spike trading, or strategies deployed within spreads, are at greater risk of experiencing higher slippages or under performance, due to their sensitive nature, and the way real market participants process and book orders through MT4. Extremely sensitive and non-predatory strategies are best deployed via FIX API.