One self-hosted platform that replaces six vendors — trading terminals for web, desktop & mobile, an MQL4 algo studio, social & copy trading, PAMM, a prop-firm engine, CRM and a full broker back office. MT4-compatible, your brand, your data, your revenue.
Web · Desktop · MobileMQL4 EAs & .ex4Copy trading & PAMMProp-firm moduleCRM & IB programMulti-tenant · self-hosted
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Broker Licensing Proposal
ZigZag Trader (ZT4) · 2026 edition
Confidential — for the addressee · Updated Jul 2026
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Executive Summary
01 A complete brokerage, in a box you own
ZigZag Trader (ZT4) is a modern, MT4-compatible brokerage platform that a broker can license, brand as their own, and run on their own server. It gives your traders the familiar MT4-style experience they already trust — across the browser, a native desktop app, and mobile — while giving you an operator's back office, payments, compliance and growth tooling that legacy MT4/MT5 simply never bundled.
Where a traditional launch means stitching together a platform vendor, a copy-trading provider, a PAMM system, a prop-firm engine, a CRM, an IB portal and a payments integrator — each with its own contract, data silo and monthly bill — ZT4 delivers all of it as one deployment. You install it on a Linux server with a single Docker command, point your domain at it, and go live under your own logo, colors and URL.
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Trading terminals — web, desktop & mobile from one codebase
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Languages out of the box — EN·ES·RU·ZH·AR·KA
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Server you control — self-hosted, your data
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Your brand & your client-funds flow
→ Launch in days, not quarters
Provision a VPS, run one Docker Compose stack, register your broker, and share your terminals. No per-seat platform contract to negotiate first.
→ Keep more of your revenue
Traders pay you; you pay a flat monthly platform licence. Your deposits, spreads and commissions flow through accounts you control — not the vendor's.
→ One platform, not six vendors
Terminals, algo studio, social/copy/PAMM, prop firm, CRM, IB and payments ship together and share one account, one login, one data model.
→ Modern where MT4 is frozen
An in-browser MQL4 IDE with a real debugger, crypto deposits with on-chain confirmation, and native web/desktop/mobile clients — all MT4-compatible.
The bottom line for a broker
ZT4 compresses the cost, time and vendor-sprawl of standing up a brokerage into a single self-hosted platform you brand and control — so you can launch faster, run leaner, and grow with copy trading, PAMM, prop challenges and an IB program already built in.
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The Problem
02 Running a brokerage on legacy tooling is expensive and fragmented
The retail-trading world still runs on platforms designed two decades ago. For a broker, that legacy carries a real, recurring cost — in money, in control, and in the ability to differentiate.
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Costly, gated licences
Legacy MT4/MT5 licensing is heavy and increasingly restrictive. New MT4 white labels are hard to obtain, terms change under you, and pricing scales against you as you grow — with little you can do about it.
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A closed ecosystem
You don't own the platform, the source, or often even the customer data model. Customisation is limited to what the vendor exposes, and your traders' experience looks identical to every competitor's.
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Six vendors, six bills
Copy trading, PAMM, a prop-firm engine, CRM, an IB/affiliate portal and a payments gateway are all separate products. Each is another contract, integration, data silo, and monthly invoice to reconcile.
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Frozen technology
Ageing desktop-first clients, clunky or absent mobile, no modern web terminal, no crypto funding, and algo tooling that hasn't meaningfully changed in years — while trader expectations have moved on entirely.
What it costs you
Slow time-to-market. Every launch is a procurement project across multiple vendors before a single client can trade.
Margin leakage. Stacked licence fees and integration costs eat into the spread and commission you actually keep.
No differentiation. When everyone runs the same closed platform, you compete only on price and bonuses.
Data you don't control. Your most valuable asset — the client relationship and its data — lives in someone else's system.
The opportunity
Brokers who own a modern, unified platform launch faster, keep more revenue, and offer social, copy, PAMM and prop products their legacy-bound competitors can't match. That is exactly the gap ZigZag Trader was built to close.
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The Solution
03 ZigZag Trader — one platform for the whole brokerage
ZT4 is a full, MT4-compatible trading platform plus the complete operational stack around it — delivered as one self-hosted, multi-tenant deployment you brand as your own. Your traders get a familiar experience on every device; your desk and back office get the tools to run and grow the business; and you keep ownership of the server, the data and the money flow.
Trader-facing
Web · Desktop · Mobile
MT4 heritage
MQL4 EAs · Indicators · .ex4
Growth engines
Social · Copy · PAMM · Prop
Operator
Admin · CRM · IB · Payments
How the pieces fit together
One account, everywhere. A trader signs in once and gets the same charts, orders and balance on web, the native desktop app, and mobile — kept in sync in real time over SignalR.
One data model. Trading, social, copy, PAMM, prop, CRM and payments all share the same server and database — so there is no reconciliation between disconnected vendors.
One deployment, many brokers. The platform is multi-tenant: a single install can host many brokers on wildcard sub-domains, each fully branded, with automatic HTTPS.
Your brand on the front, your control at the back. Logo, colors and domain are yours; the server, the client-funds flow and the data stay on infrastructure you own.
The four layers of the platform
1 · Trading terminals
WebTerminal (no install), a unified cross-platform desktop app, and native iOS/Android mobile — all MT4-compatible, all sharing one trade engine.
2 · Algo & markets
EA Studio — a full in-browser MQL4 IDE with a real step-debugger, backtester and template gallery — plus data feeds, gateways and order routing.
3 · Growth & money management
A social trading network, copy trading with leader commissions, PAMM funds, and a full prop-firm challenge storefront and payout engine.
4 · Operator & platform
Broker Admin back office, Trader Cabinet, CRM, sales-agent and partner portals, IB program and payments.
Built on a modern, self-hostable stack
A .NET server (REST + real-time SignalR, EF Core), Vue 3 web front-ends, an Avalonia desktop client and a MAUI mobile app — packaged as Docker images and run with Postgres, Redis and a Caddy edge proxy that provisions HTTPS automatically. Database migrations run on boot; you update by pulling a new image.
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The Modules · Trading & Algo
04 What your traders get
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Trading terminals — web, desktop & mobile
WebTerminal runs in any browser with no install or plugins — Market Watch, multi-chart workspace, and full order tickets. One unified desktop app built on Avalonia runs natively on Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) and Linux from a single codebase. The MAUI mobile app delivers the same login and accounts on iOS and Android with biometric sign-in. All three share one trade engine, so a position opened on desktop appears instantly on the phone and the web. MT4-compatible throughout: MQL4 Expert Advisors, custom indicators and .ex4 support, market/pending orders, OCO & bracket, SL/TP and trailing stops.
Broker benefit: meet every trader on the device they prefer, with the MT4 experience they already know — and cut your maintenance to a single cross-platform build instead of separate native apps.
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EA Studio — a real MQL4 IDE in the browser
A full in-browser development environment for MQL4: a Monaco-based editor with syntax highlighting, autocomplete, signature help, hover docs, snippets, a multi-error Problems panel and a formatter — paired with a genuine step-debugger (breakpoints including conditional, step over / into / out, run-to-cursor, call stack, watch expressions and hover-to-inspect). Add a visual backtester, an EA template gallery, and share-by-link, and traders can build, debug, test and ship strategies without ever leaving the browser.
Broker benefit: an algo-trader magnet no legacy MT4 offering matches — the kind of tooling that wins and retains your most active, highest-value clients.
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Data feeds, gateways & order routing
Configurable market-data feeds (simulator, exchange book-ticker, REST pollers, manual, and plugin-provided) and execution gateways (internal self-fill, configurable-slippage mock, FIX, and plugin-provided), with per-symbol routing rules resolving every fill through the right gateway. A plugin system lets you hot-load additional feeds and gateways without rebuilding the platform.
Broker benefit: run a book, b-book or route to a liquidity provider — and change your mind — without swapping platforms or waiting on a vendor.
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The Modules · Growth & Money Management
05 Products that grow the book
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Social trading network
A built-in social layer: a live feed, a discover surface, trader profiles, groups, and tournaments with real cash prize pools. Your traders don't leave your platform to find ideas and community — they build it inside your brand.
Broker benefit: higher engagement and retention, plus a viral acquisition loop where your best traders bring in the next ones.
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Copy trading & PAMM
Copy trading lets any account publish itself as a leader with configurable leader commissions; followers subscribe with a lot multiplier and the server replicates the full lifecycle — opens, closes and SL/TP changes — in real time through the same trade engine and risk checks. PAMM funds add pooled, manager-run allocation for investors who prefer a hands-off product.
Broker benefit: two proven revenue and retention products — copy and PAMM — with no third-party provider taking a cut or holding your data.
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Prop-firm module
A complete prop offering: a challenge storefront, configurable multi-phase challenges with rules and risk enforcement, and a payout workflow — all integrated with the same accounts, groups and back office you already run.
Broker benefit: open the fast-growing prop-firm revenue line without buying and integrating a separate prop platform.
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Trader Cabinet — the client area
An email-login client portal where a customer can open demo or live accounts, fund and withdraw, complete KYC, enable 2FA, and one-click SSO into every app. Deposits support crypto USDT on EVM and Tron with on-chain auto-confirmation, plus bank/manual transfer with proof-of-payment upload — so a challenge or live account activates the moment payment is verified.
Broker benefit: a frictionless, modern funding and onboarding experience that converts sign-ups into funded traders — including crypto rails legacy platforms don't offer.
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The Modules · Operator & Platform
06 What you get to run the business
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Broker Admin panel — your back office
A browser back office for the whole operation: accounts, orders, groups, balance operations, symbols, data feeds, gateways and order routing, plugins, business intelligence & reports, compliance, promotions, news, an IB / partner program, and white-label branding (logo, colors, domain) together with your own deposit-receiving configuration.
Broker benefit: everything the desk and back office need in one console — no bolt-on CRM or reporting tool required to actually operate.
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Dealing, CRM, agents & partners
A Manager console for the dealing desk (live positions, exposure, quotes and dealing), a CRM for the sales and support team, a sales-Agent portal, and a Partner portal for your IB and affiliate network — each role-scoped and reached through a single SSO hub.
Broker benefit: your commercial engine — dealing, sales, support and partners — runs on the same platform as trading, with no data hand-offs between systems.
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Payments & the money model
Crypto (USDT) deposits with on-chain verification on EVM and Tron, plus bank/manual funding with proof-of-payment. The money model is simple and broker-favourable: your traders pay you; you pay a flat platform licence. Client deposits and withdrawals flow through the accounts and wallets you configure — the platform never sits between you and your clients' funds.
Broker benefit: you keep your client-funds flow and your economics. The licence is a predictable cost, not a cut of every trade.
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Why ZigZag Trader is different
07 Own your brand, your data, and your economics
ZT4 isn't a re-skin of a closed platform — it's a platform you deploy and control. That single difference cascades into everything a broker cares about.
Dimension
Legacy MT4/MT5 white label
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Hosting & data
Vendor-hosted; data in their silo
Self-hosted on your VPS — your data, your control
Branding
Limited, within vendor constraints
Full white label — logo, colors, domain
Clients
Desktop-first; weak or no web/mobile
Web, native desktop & mobile from one codebase
Copy / PAMM
Separate third-party products
Built in, sharing one account & trade engine
Prop firm
Another vendor to integrate
Included — storefront, challenges, payouts
CRM & IB
Bolt-on, extra licences
Included — CRM, agents, partner & IB program
Algo tooling
Ageing editor, no real debugger
Browser MQL4 IDE with a real step-debugger
Funding
Cards/bank only; no crypto
Crypto USDT (on-chain) + bank/manual with proof
Money model
Fees scale against your growth
Flat monthly licence; you keep your funds flow
Multi-tenant
One brand per instance
Many brokers on one deployment, wildcard domains
Own it
Self-hosted, branded, and data-sovereign. The platform runs on infrastructure you control, not a black box.
Unify it
One platform replaces six: terminals, algo, social/copy/PAMM, prop, CRM/IB and payments — one login, one data model.
Modernise it
Native web/desktop/mobile, a real in-browser IDE, crypto funding and a social layer — where legacy platforms are frozen.
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Security & Compliance
08 Built for a regulated business
Because you host ZT4 yourself, sensitive data and funds stay under your control and within your jurisdiction — and the platform ships the controls a brokerage needs to operate responsibly.
Identity & access
bcrypt password hashing, JWT access + refresh-token rotation (revoked on logout), opt-in 2FA (TOTP), per-IP login rate-limiting, and a read-only investor password for view-only account sharing.
Roles & separation of duties
Role-scoped panels — admin, manager/dealer, CRM, agent and partner — so staff see only what their role permits, reached through a single SSO hub.
KYC & funding controls
KYC in the Trader Cabinet; deposits and withdrawals move through Pending → Approved → Completed with operator review, on-chain verification for crypto, and proof-of-payment for manual transfers.
Data rights & retention
GDPR-aligned data export and admin-guarded erasure (anonymise-in-place), with financial and trade records retained for the statutory book-keeping / AML window applicable to your jurisdiction.
Self-hosted = control by default
Your database, your PII, your client funds flow and your audit trail live on infrastructure you own and can place in the region your regulator requires. Every trade carries broker context for compliance review.
Deployment & Onboarding
09 From a bare server to live in days
The whole stack ships as Docker images and comes up with a single docker-compose on one Linux VPS — Postgres + Redis for data, a Caddy edge proxy that provisions HTTPS automatically, and each front-end and the server as their own service. Database migrations run automatically on boot; you update by pulling a new image tag, and roll back by pinning the previous one.
Single VPS, single compose file — no Kubernetes required to start
Automatic TLS on your domain and every sub-domain
Wildcard multi-tenant domains for multiple brokers
Metrics endpoint + pre-provisioned dashboards for observability
Day 1
Provision & deploy. Stand up a Linux VPS, set your secrets, run the compose stack. The platform boots, migrates and serves HTTPS.
Day 2–3
Brand & configure. Apply your logo, colors and domain; set groups, leverage, symbols, feeds, gateways and routing; configure deposit wallets.
Day 4–5
Register & test. Register your broker, select a plan, run demo accounts end-to-end across web, desktop and mobile.
Go-live
Open the doors. Publish your terminals and client cabinet, ship the desktop app from your landing page, and onboard live clients.
Timeline is indicative and assumes a prepared VPS and branding assets; We support you through each step.
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Pricing
10 One flat monthly licence — scaled to your size
Pricing that stays fair as you grow
We bill registered accounts, not active ones — no surprise invoices when your traders get busy. And no volume or turnover fees — ever.
You pay a single monthly platform licence based on your registered-account capacity; your trader revenue and client-funds flow remain entirely yours. Every tier includes the full platform and all terminals — higher tiers raise account and symbol capacity and add premium gateways, the prop-firm engine, Partner API, SLA and support depth. A one-time setup fee covers onboarding, branding and configuration.
Plan
Monthly licence
Registered accounts
One-time setup
Highlights
Starter
$690/mo
500
$990
Full platform & all terminals · community feeds & gateways · email support
Ideal for a new brand validating the market.
Growth
$1,490/mo
2,000
$1,900
Everything in Starter + premium gateways (FIX, IB…) · priority email support
BusinessMOST POPULAR
$2,900/mo
10,000
$2,900
Everything in Growth + Prop-firm engine & Partner API included · SLA
Scale
$4,900/mo
25,000
$4,900
Everything in Business + custom plugins · dedicated success manager
Enterprise
$7,900/mo
50,000
$9,900
Everything in Scale + compliance assistance · 99.9% SLA
Ultimate
from $12,000/mo
100,000+
by project
Everything in Enterprise + multi-node (Redis backplane) · auto-scale · 24/7 support
Annual billing saves 17% — two months free. Prices are our published monthly platform-licence tiers (30-day term, priced in USD, payable in USDT) and are indicative of standard plans; the one-time setup fee covers onboarding, branding and configuration. Account/symbol figures are plan capacity limits. Prop firms and optional add-ons are priced separately — see the next page.
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Pricing — prop firms & add-ons
11 Prop-firm plans & optional add-ons
Running challenges and funded accounts is a different business with different economics, so prop firms get their own plans — priced on active accounts. Everything else is modular: the base licence includes the full platform, and you add only what you need.
Everything in Launch + Partner API · priority support
Prop Scale
from $7,500/mo
10,000+
Everything in Growth + dedicated infrastructure · 24/7 support · SLA
Add-ons — priced separately, not bundled into base plans
Prop-firm engine + Partner API — $800/mo (included from Business tier and up)
IB / Partner Portal — $400/mo
Premium gateways (FIX, IB) — $500/mo
Managed hosting — $150–$900/mo (scales with plan)
Custom plugin — from $2,500 one-time
99.9% SLA + 24/7 support — +15% of plan
Extra 5,000 accounts — $500/mo
How we compare
You’re billed on registered accounts, not active ones, with no volume or turnover fees. Business — $2,900/mo for 10,000 registered accounts — sits well under Match-Trader ($2,000–3,500/mo for 1,000 active) and cTrader ($5 per $1M volume on a $5,000/mo minimum — a turnover fee), while year-one cost reaches $30–80k on TradeLocker and $150–400k on DXtrade. Prop Launch at $1,900/mo undercuts the field too, and ZT4 adds MQL4/EA support and full self-hosting.
Included at every tier
Web, desktop & mobile terminals, EA Studio, social/copy/PAMM, Trader Cabinet, Admin, CRM, IB and payments.
Simple billing
Register your broker in-platform, pick a plan and pay the monthly licence in USDT; the licence extends immediately and renewals are tracked for you.
Add only what you need
The prop-firm engine, premium gateways, partner portal and hosting are modular add-ons — layer them on as you grow.
Prices are indicative; final pricing, add-ons and any custom terms are confirmed by sales. Broker plans are billed on registered accounts; prop-firm plans on active accounts. Competitor pricing reflects external list prices; market data: industry estimates, 2025–26. Contact sales@zigzagtrader.com for a tailored quote.
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See it in action
Trading, on your brand
WebTerminal — browser trading on the ACME demo tenant: real-time charting, Market Watch, one-click dealing, EAs, plus Copy/PAMM/Social and an AI-strategy tab in-app. White-labelled with your logo, colours and domain.
Mobile — native charting, iOS & AndroidMobile — quotes, positions & orders on the go
Also in the platform, best shown live: the EA Studio — in-browser MQL4 IDE with a real step-debugger (breakpoints, call-stack, watch, run-to-cursor) and a backtester — and the Social trading network (feed, copy, PAMM, tournaments).
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See it in action
Your broker back office
Admin — live dashboard: total accounts, open positions, active symbols, server health and live quotes; full control of groups, symbols, data feeds, order routing, IB program, reporting and white-label branding.Licensing & plans — self-serve plan management right in the panel (Starter → Enterprise), with transparent flat monthly pricing and instant activation.
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See it in action
Client cabinet & prop-firm funding
Trader Cabinet — email-login client area: open demo/live accounts, fund & withdraw (crypto + bank with proof), KYC, 2FA, and one-click SSO into every app. Localised in six languages.Prop storefront — a branded funded-challenge shop: multi-phase evaluations with profit targets, drawdown limits, pricing and checkout — a second revenue line on the same platform.
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Support & SLA
11 Supported from launch to scale
Onboarding
Guided deployment and configuration — from provisioning your VPS to registering your broker and running your first end-to-end demo.
Tiered support
Email support at every tier, priority support from Growth, an SLA from Business, a dedicated success manager from Scale, and 24/7 coverage at Ultimate.
Updates & ops
Rolling platform improvements delivered as new image tags — pull to update, pin to roll back — plus health checks and metrics for clean operations.
Why ZigZag Trader
12 A partner, not just a vendor
ZigZag Trader is a complete, self-hostable brokerage platform, licensed to run entirely on your own infrastructure. Our interest is aligned with yours: a flat licence means we succeed when you launch and grow — not by taking a slice of every trade or locking your data inside our walls.
Depth, not a demo. A genuinely complete stack — terminals, a real MQL4 IDE with a debugger, social/copy/PAMM, a prop engine, CRM/IB and payments — already built and integrated.
Ownership by design. You self-host, you brand, you keep your data and your client-funds flow. No black box.
Room to grow. Multi-tenant architecture lets you expand from a single brand into a platform business on the same deployment.
Six languages, global from day one. EN · ES · RU · ZH · AR · KA shipped out of the box for web and mobile.
See it running on your brand — book a demo
We'll walk you through the terminals, the algo studio, the copy/PAMM/prop products and the back office, then show you exactly how fast your own branded brokerage can go live. Bring your questions on gateways, routing, compliance and pricing — we'll answer them live.
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