MetaTrader Remains the World's Most Widely Used Retail Trading Platform

Despite the emergence of dozens of proprietary trading platforms over the past decade, MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 continue to dominate the retail forex and CFD landscape. Industry estimates place MetaTrader's share of retail forex transactions above 70% globally — a figure that has remained stable even as competitors have invested heavily in building alternatives.

The reasons are structural. MetaTrader's Expert Advisor ecosystem is the most mature and battle-tested in retail trading. Tens of thousands of EAs have been built and refined for the platform over two decades. Hundreds of brokers support it natively. The MQL4 and MQL5 scripting languages have a large, active developer community.

For retail traders wanting to automate strategies, this means a bot built for MetaTrader works with virtually any broker — no migration, no reconfiguration, no new learning curve.

ForexInstincts is built on this reality. Every bot generated on the platform is a native MetaTrader EA, compiled to run on MT4 or MT5, and deployable within minutes of download.