A trading platform is a computer, a mobile, or a web application, which you can use to buy and sell financial assets. Almost all trading platforms are supplied with charting tools and all common technical indicators that you can add to the charts. Moreover, most common trading platforms are supplied with strategy back testers and automated alerts to help you automate your trading to some degree.
For trading platforms to work as they should, they need to have a fast connection to the server of the broker. The quality of this connection usually reflects on the quality of the execution.
The most common trading platform is MT4 and its later version MT5, which are supplied with almost features that a trader needs. However, some brokers...