MT5 gives you an execution server and a terminal. It does not give you copy trading, prop challenges, a client cabinet, payment rails, dealing-desk risk control or a notification channel your clients actually read. We build those — under your brand, on your infrastructure — and we ship a complete trading platform of our own when you would rather not run MetaTrader at all.
Most brokers who talk to us already run MT5 and cannot move. That is the normal case, not the exception — so nothing here asks you to migrate.
We deliver white-label modules onto the MT5 server you already own — as in-process server plugins, as services against the Manager API, or as web front-ends on your domain. Your licence, your server, your brand.
ZT4 is a complete brokerage in one Docker stack: trading server, five terminals, admin and dealer consoles, CRM, prop engine and partner portal. No MetaQuotes licence, no per-seat terminal fees, no vendor gatekeeping.
The interesting work is usually the thing no vendor sells. We have written MT5 server plugins in C++, an MQL bytecode virtual machine, copy engines, KYC and payment flows, and the back offices around them.
A full MetaTrader-class platform written from scratch: matching server, terminals on every device, the back office around them, and an MQL runtime so the strategies your clients already trust keep running. It is live, it is licensed per capacity, and it has its own site.
.NET 7 / ASP.NET Core with REST and SignalR streaming. Full order pipeline, margin and stop-out monitors, bar builder, swap calculation, news and push delivery.
Web, Windows and macOS desktop, iOS and Android — the same charts, orders and history following the trader between devices in real time.
Our own bytecode virtual machine executes trader strategies server-side and on the desktop,
including compiled .ex4 programs decoded down to the container format.
Accounts, symbols and groups, balance approvals, broadcasts, data feeds, gateways, routing, plugins and reports — plus a dealer desk with live positions across the book.
The commercial layer ships with the platform: sales and retention CRM, funded-trader challenges, and a multi-level introducing-broker programme.
Quotes in, orders out, and a plugin surface for whatever your book needs that we have not already written.
Not renders. These are the panels your traders and your desk would open tomorrow.
Delivered three ways depending on what the job needs: an in-process C++ plugin when a decision has to happen before execution, a Manager API service when it does not, and a web front-end on your own domain. Licensed per component from a control plane, so you switch on what you buy and nothing else. Read the full catalogue for what each one does and why a desk asks for it.
How everything else gets onto your server and stays licensed.
The service that licenses each component to each broker and delivers it onto their own infrastructure: signed licences bound to one installation, per-broker feature switching, version channels, branding, and an agent on your side that pulls what it is entitled to.
The same catalogue for an operator running its own brokerage. Instead of shipping another CRM it installs as a service layer into the CRM you already run, so client identity, KYC status and support workflows stay in one place.
Turn your best traders into an acquisition channel.
Traders publish accounts as strategies with verified track records; investors subscribe and every trade replicates with volume scaling, risk limits and symbol filters. Ratings, subscription management and automated fee settlement included.
Public profiles with verified statistics, activity feeds, followers, discussions and leaderboards. Your client base becomes a community, and copy relationships form out of it.
Pooled management: investors fund a manager's pool, the manager trades the combined capital, and P&L allocates by share. Fee schedules, high-water mark and investor reporting.
Managed accounts without pooling — one master interface multiplied across client accounts by equity, balance, fixed lot or percentage. Client funds never leave their own account.
Cheaper than buying the same deposits from an affiliate.
Server-side price monitoring that works with the terminal closed. Level crossings and percentage moves delivered by push, Telegram or email, with a live admin status view.
Gamified contests on any instrument or event — where gold closes on Friday, what the index does after the rate decision. Live leaderboards, automatic prize crediting, admin portal.
Scheduled trading competitions on live or demo accounts, free or paid entry, real-time leaderboards, automatic prize-pool distribution and anti-cheat rules.
Deposit bonuses issued as credit, conversion to withdrawable funds after traded volume, and automatic proportional credit removal on withdrawal.
A funded-trader business, including the part that settles disputes.
Storefront selling evaluations with integrated payments, automatic account provisioning, phase rules, a live progress dashboard, funded-account issuance, payouts and paid resets. Running in our own platform today, including on-chain crypto settlement, KYC review and an affiliate ledger.
Drawdown breaches detected tick by tick inside the server: positions close and the account flags at the moment of violation, not minutes later when a poller notices.
Everything between "interested" and "funded".
White-label client area on your domain: registration, KYC collection and review, account opening and leverage changes, deposits, withdrawals, transfers, history, and single sign-on into the terminal.
Multi-level introducing brokers: referral links, per-lot rebates, revenue share and CPA, commission calculated on every trade, partner cabinet and payout management.
One framework, then the rails that suit your regions.
The foundation every connector plugs into: deposits credited to the trading account on provider confirmation, withdrawals with maker-checker approval, routing by region, method and amount, cascading of declines to an alternate provider, and full reconciliation.
Global card acquiring with deep roots in this industry, plus a wide catalogue of alternative methods and payouts through one integration. Local acquiring lifts approval rates; smart routing and decline recovery are built in.
Tier-one full-stack acquiring for licensed brokers: direct scheme connections, granular decline data, strong EU, UK and MENA coverage, and high approval rates on 3-D Secure.
Payment orchestration built for trading: hundreds of pre-integrated providers behind one cashier, per-region checkout composition, automatic cascading, unified reconciliation.
An alternative orchestration rail so the payment layer never locks you in — cascading retries that recover failed deposits, a unified checkout, one dashboard across providers.
Institutional crypto processing: BTC, ETH and stablecoins accepted with instant conversion and settlement in fiat or crypto, so you never hold wallets or keys.
High-volume crypto gateway with 20+ currencies and built-in AML screening of incoming funds before they are credited, with fiat settlement.
The broadest altcoin coverage on the market with low processing fees — a cheap entry channel and long-tail coverage for crypto-native audiences.
Local methods and domestic bank transfers across APAC, LatAm, Africa and MENA through one API — deposits from markets where international cards barely work.
Real-time account-to-account bank payments with instant confirmation, at a fraction of card cost and with no chargeback exposure.
The channel every broker must offer, automated: unique references and virtual IBANs where available, statement matching and crediting, compliance holds, and a full audit trail.
The modules that decide whether a good month survives one bad hour.
Net exposure by symbol and asset class, A/B book split, top clients by exposure and P&L, margin utilisation, unusual-activity alerts and historical analytics — across MT4, MT5, cTrader and Match-Trader behind one normalised API. A server with no live connector reads offline and zero; we do not invent numbers to fill a chart.
When net exposure crosses a threshold the excess is hedged to a coverage account automatically — per-symbol thresholds, hedge ratios, throttles and an execution log.
Leverage tiers that step down as position volume grows, per instrument class, with scheduled reductions before high-impact news, weekends and market close.
Spike and gap filtering, spread engineering by group, session or news window, feed smoothing, and automatic failover between quote sources with per-symbol overrides.
Detection of latency arbitrage, tick scalping, coordinated multi-account activity and news-spike gaming, with responses from flagging to per-group execution restrictions.
The recurring manual work that quietly costs a salary.
Bulk swap-rate updates across symbols and groups, scheduled synchronisation with coverage rates, triple-swap configuration, and a swap-free programme with automatic assignment, holding limits and abuse control.
Corporate actions for share and index CFDs: a maintained dividend calendar, automatic ex-date adjustments with tax coefficients, run as overnight batches with client reporting.
Scheduled end-of-day extracts, regulatory trade-reporting formats, and broker analytics — volumes, revenue by group and book, client lifetime metrics — as dashboards, files or a warehouse feed.
Clients disengage outside the terminal. Ten channels to reach them there.
A branded bot with one-tap account linking, delivering fills, margin warnings, money operations, price alerts and campaign updates.
Official WhatsApp Business Cloud API: a verified branded sender, approved templates for outbound notifications, and opt-in from the cabinet. Client replies open a service window your support team can take over.
Aggregator-backed transactional SMS for the events that cannot fail to arrive — margin calls, stop-outs, withdrawal confirmations, security codes — with delivery receipts and a branded sender where carriers allow it.
Browser notifications tied to the web terminal. One permission prompt, after which alerts, margin warnings and fills arrive on the desktop even with the tab closed — no phone number and no messenger account required.
FCM and APNs infrastructure for your branded app: device registration, per-event templates, localisation, and deep links into the exact screen the notification is about.
A branded Viber bot with the same one-tap linking and the full notification set — coverage for CEE, the CIS, Greece and the Balkans, where Viber is the default messenger.
Two modes: direct messages from your bot, and automated posting into your community server — tournament leaderboards, campaign announcements, market broadcasts. Free and instant to set up, and where the prop and crypto audience already lives.
A LINE Official Account with account linking, the full notification set, and rich message formats for campaigns — the default messenger of Japan, Thailand and Taiwan.
A Zalo Official Account for Vietnam — one of the largest retail FX audiences in Asia, and a market where a local channel is what separates a credible broker from a foreign one.
A different audience: exposure breaches, toxic-flow flags, large money movements, challenge breaches, feed failovers and health incidents routed to your team by severity.
Coverage without an aggregator project.
Connect to a master liquidity facility and cover client flow through a single omnibus account: real-time quotes, execution with configurable markup and commission, per-broker exposure limits, failover policy, and monthly volume and settlement reporting.
That is the catalogue in full — forty-four modules. Where a decision has to happen before execution we write native C++ that loads inside the MT5 server itself; the copy engine already runs that way on a live broker node. Everything else runs beside your server, where a failure of ours can never take your trading down. Tell us which ones matter →
A single 2 vCPU / 8 GB server carried 10,000 concurrent WebSocket clients streaming real-time quotes at roughly 20% CPU, with zero dropped connections. Connection setup is the expensive phase; holding the book online is not.
Measured on production hardware. Holding 10,000 idle-streaming clients stays near 20% CPU and about 1 GB RAM — roughly 105 KB per live connection, zero failed connections in test.
Copy latency was measured on a live broker node, not a lab loopback. When an earlier set of scaling numbers turned out to have been taken against a mock, we withdrew every figure and rebuilt the harness so it now marks its own run invalid when the measurement is not trustworthy.
| Accounts on plan | Peak online | Recommended server | Topology |
|---|---|---|---|
| up to 500 | ~150 | 1 vCPU · 2 GB · 20 GB SSD | Single node |
| up to 2,000 | ~600 | 2 vCPU · 4 GB · 40 GB SSD | Single node |
| up to 10,000 | ~3,000 | 2 vCPU · 8 GB · 80 GB SSD | Single node ✓ tested |
| up to 25,000 | ~8,000 | 4 vCPU · 16 GB · 160 GB SSD | Single node |
| up to 50,000 | ~15,000 | 8 vCPU · 16 GB · 320 GB NVMe | Single node |
| up to 100,000 | ~30,000 | 2 × (8 vCPU · 16 GB) + Redis | Multi-node + backplane |
Typical trading concurrency is 20–30% of registered accounts online at peak. The platform scales horizontally: add nodes behind the load balancer and enable the Redis backplane — no code change, no downtime.
Half of what we ship started as something a broker was told was impossible or would take a year. We take fixed-scope builds and embedded-team engagements, and we hand over source.
.ex4Client names withheld. The work is described by what it does and what it measured.
| Engagement | What we built | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| MT5 broker | White-label web terminal on the broker's own design, running against their live server | Live in 11 languages; found and fixed two silent production bugs that had been breaking every stop-loss modification and the mobile lot step |
| MT5 broker | Copy-trading engine as a C++ plugin inside the live trade server, with web, admin and mobile front-ends | 51 ms copy latency; write-ahead journal with idempotent replay; fee engine with high-water mark settling inside the same journal |
| Multi-platform broker | Risk desk spanning MT4, MT5, cTrader and Match-Trader behind one normalised API | 13 live pages against real accounts and positions; demo data removed on principle so an unconnected server reads offline rather than plausible |
| Broker marketing | Prediction-campaign platform and its operator portal, settling on the broker's own price feed | Specified screen by screen from the client's prototype, then built against their MT5 so the settle price is the one the player watched |
| Broker back office | Sales and retention CRM with desks, lead scoring, drip campaigns, AML detectors and role-based access | Live in production; single sign-on ties every staff panel to one account, and every mutating request is audited |
We connect to what you already run — third-party CRMs, payment providers, KYC vendors, FIX venues — instead of asking you to replace it.
Managed hosting, monitoring, nightly backups and the deploy pipeline — or a clean handover to your own team, documented.
Every engagement runs on a shared issue tracker you can see into. No status calls to find out what moved this week.
Source handover on custom work. Nothing critical to your business sits behind a black box we control.
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Dealer console
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Broker CRM
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Prop storefront
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Downline, earnings and payouts
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Strategy editor
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Server API
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Prefer the desktop client? Builds for Windows, macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon) and Linux are on the ZT4 Platform site, alongside the trader and broker guides.
Every plan includes the core platform — server, all terminals, admin and dealer consoles, plugin SDK and updates. You scale capacity, not features. A one-time onboarding fee applies per plan; add-ons are priced separately.
Broker plans bill monthly on registered accounts; annual billing saves about 17%. Each plan carries a one-time onboarding fee, from $990 on Starter to $9,900 on Enterprise, and Ultimate is scoped per project. Hosting and add-ons are priced separately.
Billed on active funded and challenge accounts, and it includes the prop engine, challenge rules, phases, payouts and the partner API.
Components for an existing MT5 server are quoted per module and per broker — the mix that makes sense for a 400-account startup is not the mix that makes sense at 40,000. Tell us your setup and we will price it →
The useful first conversation is technical, not commercial: which platform you are on, how many accounts, what is breaking or missing. We reply within one business day.