The most widely published trading platform across the 35 UAE-licensed brokers we review is MetaTrader 5, at 28 of 35 according to our August 2026 captures. The brokers' own platforms follow at 25 of 35, then MetaTrader 4 at 17. Tell the chooser below how you trade and I will point you to the right platform.
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TradingView charts connect directly to a UAE-licensed broker through an integration. Eight of the 35 brokers publish it, including Pepperstone and Capital.com. When you place an order from the chart, it routes to the broker, not to TradingView.
MetaTrader 5 is published by 28 of the 35 brokers, making it the most widely available platform on this roster and the broadest MetaTrader path for automation. MQL5 Expert Advisors are the standard route to run automated strategies. For coded systems, 10 of the 35 brokers also offer API access.
If you already have a library of MQL4 code, staying with MetaTrader 4 keeps it working without a rewrite. MQL4 will not run on MT5, and 17 of the 35 brokers still publish MT4. You can continue using your existing scripts on the same platform.
Copy trading is the narrowest category on this page, available at only 4 of the 35 reviewed brokers. eToro publishes CopyTrader, Axi offers Axi Copy Trading through MT4, MultiBank lists an unnamed social product, and Vantage names Copy Trade on its UAE-facing site. I would start where the copy network is, and that means eToro.
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VantageA broker's own platform is published by 25 of the 35 brokers, second only to MetaTrader 5. Because the platform is tied to the broker, the real decision is which broker you choose, not which platform. If you want a simple app, pick the broker first and use their native app.
If you are torn between MetaTrader builds, begin with an MT4 versus MT5 comparison to see which suits your needs. Then open a demo account with a shortlisted broker before committing any real money.
MT5 without MT4: 11 of the 35 publish only the newer build, among them CFI, Century Financial, Deriv and XM.
You pick what matters most, then the chooser below routes you to the platform and the UAE-licensed brokers that publish it. The headline finding from our August 2026 captures is that MetaTrader 5 leads at 28 of the 35 UAE-licensed brokers we review, with the brokers’ own platforms close behind at 25.
Our team captured each broker’s own UAE-facing pages through a UAE residential connection between 18 and 26 August 2026. When a platform is not stated there, that means the broker does not list it, not that it is unavailable. Exness is the single exception to that method. A UAE visitor to its site is served only a sign-in wall, so there is no UAE-facing page to capture. On 28 August 2026 we carried what the global Exness entity publishes, on the assumption that the UAE entity matches. That assumption was withdrawn on 2 September 2026. The Exness row now carries only what a live funded account evidences: MetaTrader 5. No other platform can be evidenced either way, because the pages published to a UAE visitor show no platform at all. The full rules sit in our methodology.
The support table below lists one row per platform across the 35 UAE-licensed brokers we review. I ordered it by publisher count, highest first, with ties alphabetical. The counts come from our August 2026 captures of each broker’s own UAE-facing pages through a UAE residential connection. Anything not counted is recorded as not stated there. See how we compare brokers for the full rules.
| Platform | Published by | Brokers publishing it | Compare brokers |
|---|---|---|---|
| MetaTrader 5 | 28 of 35 | Every reviewed broker except Amana, eToro, Fortrade, Interactive Brokers, Orient Finance, Plus500 and XTB | MT5 brokers in the UAE |
| Broker’s own platform | 25 of 35 | Every reviewed broker except Amana, CMS Financial, Daman Markets, Deriv, Exness, HYCM, Kama Capital, KIRA Financial, NCM Financials and Orient Finance | UAE-licensed forex brokers |
| Expert Advisor support | 20 of 35 | Every reviewed broker except Amana, Daman Markets, Deriv, eToro, Exness, Fortrade, Interactive Brokers, Kama Capital, MultiBank, NCM Financials, Orient Finance, Plus500, RoboMarkets, Vantage and XTB | Automated trading in the UAE |
| MetaTrader 4 | 17 of 35 | ADSS, AvaTrade, Axi, Capital.com, Equiti, HYCM, IG, MultiBank, Noor Capital, Pepperstone, RoboMarkets, Swissquote, ThinkMarkets, Traders Hub, Traze, Vantage, XTB | MT4 brokers in the UAE |
| API access | 10 of 35 | ANAX Capital, Capital.com, IG, Interactive Brokers, Kama Capital, KIRA Financial, Pepperstone, RoboMarkets, Swissquote, Traders Hub | Automated trading in the UAE |
| TradingView | 8 of 35 | Capital.com, CFI, IG, Pepperstone, RoboMarkets, Swissquote, ThinkMarkets, XM | TradingView brokers in the UAE |
| VPS access | 4 of 35 | Axi, IG, ThinkMarkets, Vantage | Automated trading in the UAE |
| Copy or social trading | 4 of 35 | Axi, eToro, MultiBank, Vantage | Copy trading in the UAE |
| cTrader | 1 of 35 | Pepperstone | Pepperstone review |
Recording not stated beats guessing. Across the full review set MetaTrader 5 tops the table at 28 publishers, with the brokers’ own platforms close behind at 25 and MetaTrader 4 at 17. MT4 and MT5 are not always offered together: 11 brokers publish only the newer build and XTB is the only one that publishes MT4 without MT5. Pepperstone is still the only cTrader publisher of the 35, reversing our original nine-broker finding of 18 August 2026 that none published it. Five reviewed brokers run a copy trading product somewhere in the group but not through the entity that serves UAE clients: CFI, AvaTrade, Deriv, XM and Traze. Do not assume the UAE entity offers what the global site advertises.
The figure shows the original nine-broker capture of 18 August 2026; the support table above covers all 35 UAE-licensed brokers we review.
My goal is to help you choose your platform for trading in the UAE. I compare the four options below and link to my full MT4 vs MT5 analysis.
| Feature | MetaTrader 4 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Programming language | MQL4 | MQL5 | C# (cAlgo) | Pine Script |
| Built-in economic calendar | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hedging and netting | Hedging only | Hedging and netting | Hedging and netting | Set by the broker |
| Depth of market | No | Yes | Yes | Depends on the broker |
| Reviewed UAE brokers publishing it | 17 of 35 | 28 of 35 | 1 of 35 | 8 of 35 |
| MT4 brokers | MT5 brokers | Pepperstone review | TradingView brokers |
MetaTrader 4’s order ticket contains symbol, volume in lots, stop loss, take profit, and the order type, market or pending. The ticket also includes four pending order types: buy limit, sell limit, buy stop, and sell stop. MetaTrader 5 adds a fill policy and an expiry setting to the same five fields. When you move from MT4 to MT5, you get six pending order types: the four from MT4 plus buy stop limit and sell stop limit.
When you connect TradingView through its broker-integration panel, your order routes to the broker, not to TradingView. Its order panel carries symbol, quantity, order type, and take-profit and stop-loss levels expressed in price, ticks, or percent.
A broker’s own web platform sets its own field list. If you want to see the order fields before committing, open demo accounts on the same platform with the broker and walk through the ticket on a simulated balance. I recommend you do this. Spot gold trades through the same platform as a currency pair; the spot gold contract specifications page lists the contract terms.
Schematic of published field sets, not a screenshot; a broker’s own platform presents a variable field list.
The CMA, the DFSA and the FSRA each licence a legal entity. MetaQuotes, the company that publishes MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5, holds no UAE licence. TradingView holds no UAE licence. A broker that offers MetaTrader 5 has not made MetaTrader 5 a regulated product. The software is a tool the licensed entity provides, and the licence stops at the entity. This distinction matters when you compare platforms.
Amana’s group site publishes MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, an “amana app” and “amanaWeb”. The same group site states that “AFS Global Ltd is the default account opening for all amana app accounts”. AFS Global Ltd is licensed by the Labuan Financial Services Authority in Malaysia, not by the DFSA. On 20 January 2023 the DFSA published a clarification stating that “the only entity within the Amana Capital Group that is authorised and regulated by the DFSA is Amana Financial Services (Dubai) Limited” and that “the ‘amana app’ is not a product of the DFSA regulated entity, AFSDL”. That is why Amana appears in none of the support table’s platform rows: the platforms are published, but not by the licensed entity this page compares. I would treat any platform that is not attached to the DFSA-licensed entity as an open question until the broker makes the relationship transparent to you.
The licensed entity name in the table below should match the name on the account-opening documents and the platform’s account settings screen, and I recommend checking it on the regulator’s public register. Blurring the distinction between the licensed entity and the software is how you end up misreading who you are actually contracting with. The full list of UAE-licensed forex brokers is published on the site’s guide.
The CMA, DFSA and FSRA license the entity; the licence does not extend to MetaTrader, TradingView, or the broker’s own software.
| Broker | Licensed entity | Regulator | Register reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADSS | ADS SECURITIES - L.L.C - S.P.C | CMA (formerly SCA) | CP-0000786; SCA-era 305027 (Cat 1) and 20200000217 (Cat 5) |
| CFI | CFI FINANCIAL MARKETS L.L.C | CMA (formerly SCA) | CP-0000894; SCA-era 20200000154 |
| Century Financial | Century Financial Consultancy LLC | CMA (formerly SCA) | CP-0000038; SCA-era 20200000028 / 301044 |
| Equiti | Equiti Securities Currencies Brokers LLC | CMA (formerly SCA) | CP-0000791; SCA-era 20200000026 (Cat 1) and 20200000352 (Cat 5) |
| MultiBank | MEX GLOBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES L.L.C | CMA (formerly SCA) | CP-0000816 |
| Amana | Amana Financial Services (Dubai) Limited | DFSA (DIFC) | F003269 |
| IG | IG Limited | DFSA (DIFC) | F001780 |
| Pepperstone | Pepperstone Financial Services (DIFC) Limited | DFSA (DIFC) and CMA | F004356; onshore CMA Cat 5 20200000358 |
| XTB | XTB MENA Limited | DFSA (DIFC) | F006316 |
| AvaTrade | Ava Trade Middle East Limited | FSRA (ADGM) | FSP 190018 |
| Capital.com | Key Way Markets Limited; CAPITAL COM MENA SECURITIES TRADING L.L.C | FSRA (ADGM) and CMA | FSRA 190005; CMA CP-0000937 (broker-quoted 20200000176) |
| eToro | eToro (ME) Ltd | FSRA (ADGM) | FSP 220073 |
Register references were checked between 17 and 19 August 2026. Amana is neither the Amana construction group nor the consumer amana app. The XTB platform pages behind this table were captured from XTB MENA Limited, DFSA reference F006316. Readers should know that XTB also operates XTB FINANCIAL SERVICES L.L.C, CP-0001283 on the CMA register, and that this second entity is what a default visit to xtb.com reaches. Both are live and neither replaces the other. eToro (ME) Ltd is licensed by the ADGM FSRA as an Authorised Person under Financial Services Permission Number 220073, confirmed on the FSRA register itself on 19 August 2026, which also records Providing Custody and Arranging Custody as active regulated activities from 16 October 2023.
Dubai sits within the UAE. Platform availability does not vary by emirate. A broker licensed by the CMA, the DFSA, or the FSRA offers the same platforms in Dubai as in Abu Dhabi or Sharjah. What differs is which regulator licensed the entity, since the DFSA regulates inside the Dubai International Financial Centre and the FSRA inside Abu Dhabi Global Market. A trader in Dubai who opens an account with a DFSA entity is contracting with a DIFC firm.
Justin Grossbard co-founded CompareForexBrokers in 2014 and serves as Co-Founder and CEO. He has traded forex since 1998. For this site he directs the research and comparison of UAE-licensed brokers. He holds Monash University degrees including a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours and a Master of Marketing. His commentary has appeared in Forbes, Kiplinger, Finance Magnates and Entrepreneur.
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