Learn MT4 Commodities Trading Software
The following tutorials explain how to use the MT4 commodities trading platform, each tutorial is accompanied by numerous screen shots so that to help traders to understand the concepts described & make it easier to learn about this online commodity trading platform.
Introduction
File
- Opening a Practice Account Procedure
- Open a Commodity Trading Chart
- Opening Offline Chart
- Opening a Deleted Chart
- Saving a Profile
- Login to an Account
- Printing Commodity Trading Charts
View
- Changing Language
- Tool Bars
- Connection Bars
- Charts Bar
- Market Watch
- Data Window
- Navigator
- MT4 Terminal Window
- Commodity Trading Strategy Tester
Insert
- Indicators Insert Menu
- Insert Line Studies
- Placing Channels
- Gann Lines
- Placing Fibonacci Lines
- Insert Shapes
- Placing Arrows
- Insert Andrew's Pitchfork, Cycle Lines, Text Label
Charts
- Indicators List
- Objects List
- Bar Chart
- Line Chart
- Candlesticks
- Time frames - Periodicity
- Saving a Template
- Grid, Volumes, Auto Scroll and Shift
- Zoom in, Zoom Out & Commodity Trading Step by Step
- Setting Properties
Tools
- Place New Order
- History Center on Tools Menu
- Options Settings
- MetaEditor Custom Indicators
- MetaEditor Expert Advisors
Window Menu
Help Menu
Toolbars
Advanced Topics
- MQL5 Signals - Copy Top MetaTrader 4 Traders
- Advantages MQL5 Signals
- Signal Seller Advantages
- MQL5 Commodity Trading Expert Advisors
How to Place Commodities Technical Indicators
- Accelerator Oscillator
- Accumulation Distribution
- Alligator
- ADX
- Average True Range Indicator
- Awesome Oscillator
- Bears Power
- Bollinger Band Indicator
- Bulls Power
- Commodity Trading Channel Index
- Demarker
- Force Index
- Fractals
- Gator Oscillator
- Heiken Ashi
- Ichimoku
- MACD
- Market Facilitation Index
- Momentum
- Money Flow Index
- Moving Average Envelopes
- Moving Average Indicator
- Moving Average Oscillator
- On Balance Volume
- Parabolic SAR
- RSI
- RVI
- Standard Deviation
- Stochastic Oscillator Indicator
- Volumes
- Williams Percentage Range
- Zigzag
The MT4 is part of the online commodity market. The MT4 software is installed on a client's computer.
The image below shows user inter-face of MT4.
MetaTrader 4 commodities platform Workspace
According to commodity trading platforms reviews, MT4 is the most widely used commodity platform. This is because it is easy to learn & can do the following tasks.
The MT4 software is installed on a commodity trader's computer Desktop PC and it is intended to do the following:
- Plot graphical Data about exchange rates in form of a grid/chart
- Receive streaming exchange quotes from the commodity brokers
- Perform commodity trading transaction operations: buying and selling
- Show the open commodity trading transactions & orders within the commodity trading platform workspace
- Perform technical analysis
- Testing of strategies on practice practice commodities trading accounts
- Programming of custom indicators & Expert Advisors for the purpose of automated commodity trading.
- Provide statements of transaction history & a summary of profits/losses.
This is a free commodity platform that is provided for by online commodity brokers. You can download the platform from online brokers web sites, once you download it, you should then setup & setup the platform on a Desktop computer that has an internet connectivity and then connect to your commodities broker & begin receiving streaming quotes.
The MetaTrader 4 online commodity trading platform which is also referred to as MetaTrader 4, is designed to provide technical tools that can be used by Commodity traders to make buy or sell decisions. This commodity platform provides online exchange quotes and streaming data about commodity price movement drawn in the form of commodity price charts. This information is delivered direct to the MT4 commodities trading software interface. This information that is delivered in form of realtime quotes is then interpreted using technical analysis tools that are provided for within this online trading platform.
The MT4 has different window & chart panels, each designed to deliver a different type of market information, starting with the exchange rate quotes used to draw commodity trading graphs to the commodities trading market data window, toolbars for attaching indicators & the main menu bar used to navigate the platform.
