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OANDA Japan Sets Date to Stop New MT4 Orders
OANDA Japan has published a two-stage MetaTrader 4 wind-down: new orders stop 25 September 2026, the service ends 27 November. The line worth reading is what the destination account costs.
OANDA Japan Inc has put dates on the end of MetaTrader 4. Per the notice reported by FX News Group on 4 September 2026, new MT4 orders — demo accounts and live accounts alike — are suspended after the close of trading on Friday 25 September 2026. From the market open on Monday 28 September, MT4 at the Japanese entity is a closing-only venue: existing positions can be squared, nothing new can be opened. The service itself terminates after the close on Friday 27 November 2026, at which point clients can no longer log in.
Two dates, then, not one. That distinction matters, because a suspension of new orders is a narrower thing than a shutdown, and for nine weeks both descriptions will be true at once.
The stated reason, and the destination
The broker attributes the decision to the platform’s maintenance status: MT4 has been on the market a long time, MetaQuotes no longer provides system maintenance for it, and OANDA Japan says it is therefore difficult to keep meeting current security requirements. That is the broker’s framing, reported as such. It recommends migration to MetaTrader 5 as soon as possible.
The mechanics are spelled out. Remaining positions and balances at termination are to be transferred to an MT5 Standard Plan account between Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 November, with transfer details promised nearer the date. Clients holding no open positions but a balance on the MT4 Tokyo server are asked to move funds to an MT5 account or an fxTrade/TradingView account without waiting.
What we have not priced
Note what the notice does not settle. “MT5 Standard Plan” is an account type with its own cost schedule, and we have not read that schedule, so we are not going to convert it to pips per standard lot here. We would say the same of any migration: a platform change is a repricing event whether or not the announcement presents it as one, and the honest way to check is to lay the old published schedule beside the new one and total both in the same unit. We did that exercise on two platforms in the platform bill, per account, and the totals rarely match the pitch.
One scope caveat: everything above concerns OANDA’s Japanese business. Nothing in the notice we read extends to other OANDA entities, and we are not extending it for them.
Affected clients should read the broker’s own notice rather than this summary of it, and diarise 25 September before 27 November — the first date is the one that changes what an account can do.