Which trading platforms a broker actually supports rarely gets the same scrutiny as its spread or its regulator -- so we pulled it directly from our own 139-broker research set and counted it. This report covers every confirmed platform across that full set: how common MT4 and MT5 still are, how many brokers run them side by side versus having moved on, and how rare cTrader and TradingView support actually is. Every figure below comes from the same platforms field used throughout this site's reviews, best-broker lists, and comparisons -- nothing here is a separate, newly-sourced claim.
103 of the 139 brokers in our research set (74%) are confirmed to support MT4, and 97 (70%) are confirmed to support MT5. Despite MetaTrader 4 being the older of the two platforms, and despite MetaQuotes having stopped actively developing it in favor of MT5, it remains the more widely supported platform by a modest margin -- brokers have not abandoned MT4 at anywhere near the rate its "legacy platform" reputation might suggest.
84 of the 139 brokers support both MT4 and MT5 at once -- by far the most common setup. Only 13 of the 97 brokers that support MT5 (13%) have dropped MT4 entirely; the other 87% keep both running in parallel. 19 brokers still offer MT4 without having added MT5 at all, and 23 brokers (17% of the full set) offer neither platform, relying instead on cTrader, TradingView, or a proprietary platform of their own.
18 of the 139 brokers (13%) are confirmed to support cTrader, and 16 (12%) are confirmed to support TradingView -- both still a clear minority next to MT4/MT5, though far from negligible. The two overlap more than they compete: 7 brokers support both cTrader and TradingView, and only 1 of the 16 TradingView-supporting brokers does so without also offering MT4, meaning TradingView support is almost always additive to a broker's existing MetaTrader offering rather than a replacement for it.
Splitting the dataset at our top 40 by overall rank shows a real gap: 30% of our top-40 brokers (12 of 40) support TradingView, against just 4% of the remaining 99 (4 brokers). MT4 shows a smaller version of the same pattern -- 83% of the top 40 support it, against 71% of the rest. This is a correlation, not a causal claim: supporting TradingView doesn't itself make a broker better-regulated or cheaper, and our ranking formula doesn't reward platform count directly (platforms is a flat function of how many platforms are confirmed, weighted at 10% of the overall score) -- but the two clearly tend to travel together in this dataset.
Only 5 of the 139 brokers in our research set -- Pepperstone, FP Markets, GO Markets, Fusion Markets, and ICM Capital -- are confirmed to support all four of MT4, MT5, cTrader, and TradingView at once. That's a genuinely rare combination: offering every major third-party platform means supporting four separate pieces of trading infrastructure rather than concentrating on one or two, and all five of these brokers happen to also run an ECN/no-dealing-desk-style execution model, though our dataset doesn't let us say whether that's a cause, a correlation, or a coincidence at this sample size.
Beyond the big four, 22 of the 139 brokers confirm exactly one platform, and 5 of those are MT4-only. The rest of the dataset is a long tail of broker-specific proprietary platforms -- each one typically confirmed for exactly one broker, with no single proprietary platform used by more than a handful of brokers -- so "proprietary" is common as a category but fragmented in practice, unlike the real cross-broker standardisation MT4, MT5, cTrader, and TradingView each represent. 12 of the 139 brokers have no platform confirmed in our research at all; we're treating that as an honest data gap rather than guessing, consistent with how every other unconfirmed field on this site is handled.
Is MT4 being phased out by forex brokers?
Not yet, at least not among the brokers we've researched: 74% still support it, and 87% of the brokers that have added MT5 keep MT4 running alongside it rather than dropping it. Only 13% of MT5-supporting brokers in our dataset have moved on from MT4 entirely.
Which forex brokers support MT4, MT5, cTrader, and TradingView?
Five brokers in our 139-broker research set are confirmed to support all four: Pepperstone, FP Markets, GO Markets, Fusion Markets, and ICM Capital.
Does TradingView support mean a broker is better?
Not directly -- our scoring formula doesn't reward platform count on its own. But there's a real correlation in our data: 30% of our top-40-ranked brokers support TradingView, against just 4% of the remaining 99, so platform breadth and overall ranking clearly tend to move together even though one doesn't mechanically cause the other.
How was this data collected?
From the platforms field already used throughout this site's broker reviews, best-broker lists, and comparisons -- the same 139-broker research set, not a separate survey. Where we couldn't independently confirm a broker's platform support, we counted it as unconfirmed rather than assuming either way; 12 of the 139 brokers fall into that category.
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