Disliked{quote} the truth is - 1)mt4 became de-facto retail fx platform. And had hedging as default. Mt4 Platform was originally designed to rip people off for market making brokers to handle deals directly with clients. backend is retrofitted with "bridges" to connect to ecn. This only happened with mt4 because of the popularity of it. Mt5 handles multi-asset natively. Other assets the client usually buys their own charting and connect to broker's api (although broker may have 1-3 popular charting options). 2) mt4 popularity convinced uniformed retail...Ignored
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