Steps on How to Set a Commodity Trade Commodities Trading on MT4
Commodity Trade Setup Tutorial for Beginner Traders
To setup a buy or sell commodity trade on MT4 platform after learning what are instruments & choosing which are the best instruments to trade follow steps listed on this lesson.
Steps to Setup a Commodity Trade
- Open MetaTrader 4 commodities trading platform
- Open MetaTrader 4 Market Watch Window shown below
- Select the Instrument you want to trade
- Open the Commodity Trade order and select "Buy" order or "Sell" order as shown below depending on what type of trade order (buy order or sell order) you want to open.
MT4 Market Watch Window
All the commodity trading instruments symbols available on the MT4 platform will be shown the same way as the commodities trading example shown below:

List of all Available Trading Instruments Trade Symbols Shown in the MT4 Software
Opening Buy or Sell Order using Trade Order Window on MT4
MT4 commodities platform is software that is provided by a broker to help commodity traders place their commodity trade transactions.
Once you download and installs this MT4 software on your computer you can then begin to trade in the online commodity market. All commodity trade trade transactions are executed through this MetaTrader commodity trading platform. If you want to learn a commodity trading platform, MT4 Commodities Trading Software is a good platform to start with.
To set these commodity orders, open MT4, open a "commodity chart", right click on "commodity chart', select 'New Order' & then select the order you want to open - either sell order or buy order as shown below. (MT4 Short Cut Keys for MT4 new order window - Press F9)

Opening Buy or Sell Commodity Trading Order using Trade Order Window in MT4


