Introducing Virtual Groups: Simplifying Routing Management Across Multiple Trading Platforms
For brokers operating multiple connected trading platforms, the same routing logic often needs to be applied across groups that sit on different servers.
Take a simple example. A broker operates several connected trading servers and wants a particular segment of clients across those environments to follow the same routing logic.
Without Virtual Groups, the broker manages the relevant rules within each trading platform. When another native group needs to be included in that routing setup, the corresponding configuration has to be updated again.
Virtual Groups gives brokers a more central way to manage that structure.
Bring groups from multiple servers together
A Virtual Group allows native groups from different connected trading platforms to be brought together under a single virtual grouping.
The broker can define which native groups from each server belong to that Virtual Group and then use it within their routing configuration.
The initial routing rule is still configured on each relevant trading platform. Virtual Groups does not remove that initial setup.
The difference becomes clear when the structure changes.
Once those routing rules are in place, adding another native group to the same routing setup no longer means updating the corresponding configuration server by server. The broker adds the native group to the Virtual Group once, and the existing routing structure continues to reference that Virtual Group.
A simpler way to maintain routing as the brokerage grows
Brokerage structures rarely stay static.
New groups are created. Client segments change. Additional trading servers may be introduced. The groups that should follow a particular routing approach can therefore change over time.
Without a virtual grouping layer, those changes create repeated configuration work across the relevant trading platforms.
Virtual Groups separates the collection of native groups from the individual server-level routing rules. Brokers can prepare their Virtual Groups and routing rules, then manage subsequent changes to the group structure centrally.
That makes it easier to maintain consistent routing logic across a multi-platform environment without repeatedly modifying the same configuration across individual trading servers.
Routing and hedging through the same structure
Virtual Groups can be used with routing configuration, including hedging-related routing.
This means a broker can group together the native groups that should follow the same routing approach, even when those groups sit across different connected trading servers.
Instead of treating every trading platform's group structure as an entirely separate configuration exercise, the broker has a common virtual grouping that can be referenced across them.
Virtual Groups gives brokers operating multiple trading platforms a simpler way to maintain group-based routing as their structure evolves.
Watch Furqan Fakar walk through Virtual Groups and demonstrate how client logins across MT4 and MT5 can be managed under one Virtual Group: https://bit.ly/4ybxkrV
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