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Practical guides on running MetaTrader 5 against NSE, BSE and MCX — written by the people who build the tools, not by a marketing team.
Paper Trading in India with MetaTrader 5
Practise NSE, BSE and MCX trades at live prices before you risk money. Fills at the live bid and ask, tick, lot and freeze-quantity rules, and every trade saved to an Excel file — plus what paper trading still cannot tell you.
Read the guide →Can I Use MetaTrader 5 with Indian Brokers?
Zerodha, Fyers, Flattrade and Angel One — MT5 does not talk to any of them on its own. What a bridge actually gives you for live data and for orders, broker by broker, and the catch on each. Plus why it took the better part of a year and 100+ refinements to get right.
Read the guide →Is Algo Trading Legal in India?
Yes — and what the rules actually govern is how an automated order reaches the exchange, whose account it comes from, and who is selling a strategy to whom, not whether you can automate. The regulated parts, the plain ones, and the official sources to check.
Read the explainer →Best Charting Software for Indian Stocks
The platform is free. So are more than 6,500 ready-made indicators and trading robots — and unlike a browser tool, you can write your own. What MetaTrader 5 gives an Indian trader, in plain terms.
Read the comparison →Is MetaTrader 5 Legal in India?
Yes — and the reasons people think otherwise are worth understanding. What the RBI Alert List actually covers, why the app vanished from the App Store for six months, the two things that genuinely are restricted, and the official lists where you can check any of it yourself.
Read the explainer →TradingView or MetaTrader 5 for Indian Markets
An honest comparison from a company that sells MT5 tools. Where TradingView is simply better, the one architectural difference that decides most of it — Pine Script cannot place orders — and the narrow set of cases where MetaTrader 5 is the right choice.
Read the comparison →MCX Commodity Charts in MetaTrader 5
CRUDEOIL, NATURALGAS, GOLD, SILVER and COPPER — futures and options. Why a fourteen-hour session changes what tooling you need, how monthly contract rollover quietly breaks automated systems, and what MetaTrader 4 cannot do at all.
Read the guide →How to Get Your Trading Strategy Coded
What to write down before you approach a developer, the edge cases that decide whether the system survives contact with a live market, what actually drives the price, how long a real build takes — and the red flags worth walking away from.
Read the guide →How to Get Real-Time NSE Data in MetaTrader 5 (2026 Guide)
Three routes exist for getting live NSE, BSE and MCX data into MT5 — a vendor's server, your own broker API, or building it yourself. What each really costs, why option chains break on most of them, and the five pitfalls that catch people out.
Read the guide →Coming next. We publish when we have something genuinely useful to say rather than to a schedule. On the list:
- Zerodha Kite Connect to MT5 — a complete setup walkthrough
- Charting NIFTY and BANKNIFTY option strikes in MetaTrader 5
- Backtesting Indian F&O strategies in the MT5 strategy tester
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