Backtesting,Charting for ECN/MT4

Hi,
I traded forex for the last 3 years mainly with Oanda(low leverage) and MT4 brokers(demo/low leverage).
Back then it took me about 60 minutes to completely fall in love with MT4 and was pretty dissapointed to find out that "serious borkers" (AKA ECNs) didn't embrace the platform.
My question for those of you who trade via ECN - How do you backtest,create indicators , automate trading, charts (MT4 covers those for me).
Are their any technical/conceptual bariers that prevent IB/MBTrading from adopting MT4?

Thanks

I'm not entirely sure if this is right, but I think you can get data feeds for MT4 (not sure if they're free or not), where you do your work (analyze the charts), then either manually or create a program that buys/sells/closes trades on your brokers interface.

I know this is a double-post (I want to bump this thread), but if I was with a broker that doesn't offer MT4 (which I'm sure a lot of people are), if I wanted to use MT4 for charting or any other reason, what should I do?

Sign up for a demo account with another broker that offers MT4 to do the charting? Or is there a way to get feeds for MT4 that's not broker-specific or anything?


Thanks.

yes, just sign up for demo accounts with mt4 brokers. I keep at least 3 open at any time just in case one goes down most likely the others will be just fine.

To the original poster: To get automated trading with an ECN there are two things you could do. One is to find someone who offers a metatrader bridge that allows mt4 to display the ecn's data. The other is to find an ECN that has an API which will allow you to get a programmer to design the system for you.

Thanks guys,
Assuming I'm a tech guy that can pull it off
Is there a way to feed MT4 charts with quotes from other non MT brokers api?
I have bunch of indicators and EA that I would like run on ECN data(espacially those that are more sensitive to slippage and stop hunting).
Delegating the trade orders from MT4 to the broker platform/API is pretty straightforward but I want them to rely on the same data and not market makers qoutes.

Thanks again