Bva,
if you're looking for a stable, intuitive platform that offers things that are neat and useful you should have a look at the cTrader platform.
It comes in several different flavors (desktop, developer, web, tablet) and includes things like complete transparency on the trade events/process and cloud storage for synchronisation across platforms and devices as standard.
and the guys who run spotware are a really good bunch - I highly recommend them.
One thing I would say to anyone using MT4 is that the platform is designed for the broker - not for you.
That being said it has a number of bugs and weaknesses built into it.
So, just to give you an example MT4 comes in 4 pieces.
1. MT4 client
2. Manager app
3. Administrator app
4. Reporting database
the client and manager work well together, the admin and the reporting DB work well together.
The manager and administrator have rounding errors between the two (if you're performing trades outside of your base currency you'll see them - only pennies - but still, rounding errors)
The reporting database also has a really neat feature which is the kiss of death for regulatory reporting needs - if your DB stops but your traders keep playing, when you turn the DB back on the trades (in the trade lines table) will show the trade entry time as when they were committed to the DB - not the time when the trader performed the trade.
Normally with an MT4 platform you, as a broker, spend serious time and money creating plugins to correct for the platform - this creates problems in itself (the more plugins you have the slower the trade execution process).
If we have any MT4 admins in the house who would like to know how to get around a number of these problems please feel free to drop me a line - if you're running an IT dept with this platform you can be pretty screwed.
Paul.
