objective opinion about MT4

Hi! i am newbie, and i am looking for the comfortable trading terminal for stadying and trading with life account
i need somebody experienced, i want to know objective truth: why metatrader is so popular?
i saw several teminals such as vt, ava and protrader and i think that they are more userfriendly...
how do i have to do a choise?

A great platform has

1. a more open-source, simple programming language,
2. a platform that is free, stable and available from almost anywhere and any time,
3. and a worldwide community based on at least one market that offers freely lots of indicators and advice.

There are other platforms, mostly the ones you noted, that are better-quality, having one feature or another to top Metatrader's. Most forex (or stock) platforms, such as the ones you noted, GFT and others, have one of the three above. A very few have two of the three benefits Metatrader has: Tradestation, ESignal and a few others. Only Metatrader has all three.

Oh yes. And don't forget about this "great" MT4-feature: http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=70582

Ah, man. My deepest apologies. I gave HALF the opinion. 100% biased. Not for one second would I trust my money to MT4, and Xaron's link is the best description I've seen as to why. (MT4 ECN's, worth a look.) Demo and chart-reading. See, that's all I've been doing for months, and got used to losing accounts due to what's described in the link as well as to my incompetence and experimentation. Lost it. Sorry.
It is great for demo'ing and terrible for even one red cent. In my experience.

)) sorry, i couldnt reply earlier...
so, as i understand MT is not the one what is better to choose...
can you advise me anything, that you think is best?
and it would be better if you explain, why?

TIA

I have used it.. initially installation of MT4 Demo took much of my time. After that I added all mt4 expert advisors, which I use with mt4 demo. After working a week I found no problems. All orders were copied without errors. I was also surprised that there was no need to have a lot of open pages on the screen. it was pretty gascinating in the DEMO never tried in the original version, if you have some questions about it, you can ask me about it

thanks. but there is a keyword - demo)))

read Xaron' massage if you havent done it yet...

your welcome!
you asked why metatrader is so popular?
yes, i have tried it in a demo version only, and i have read Xaron's message also, just wanted to share my little experience with it

i just want to create new topic and explain everything...

may be somebody can advice any other trading terminal, that i can use instead of MT-sht we were talking above?