Profiles and Saving a Profile in MetaTrader 4

In MetaTrader 4 trading platform, you may want to save a work space that you have opened, especially if you have come to a XAUUSD Trading guide site like this one that has shown you how to place indicators & open many XAUUSD Trading charts & put various tools on these charts & you want to continue tomorrow from where you left of, then this saving your xauusd trading platform work space tutorial will show you how to do it.

To save a workspace on MetaTrader 4 platform you will use 'Profiles' button key, which is the fourth selection on 'File' drop-down menu list - this button key is illustrated & shown below:

How to Save Work Space in MT4

From the above profile button, once you click this button, another sub-menu appears to the right as displayed above, to save your current work space as a profile, click the 'Save As' button key shown above & name your profile, for examples you can call it 'My Workspace'

Example of how to save a workspace named 'My Work Space'

Saving Work Space in MetaTrader 4

The next time that you will login to the MetaTrader 4 XAUUSD trade platform and you want to load the saved 'My Work Space' profile: You will go to File Menu>>>Then Click Profiles>>>and Then Select 'My Work Space'. In the above case this profile is already selected as pictured by the check mark/ tick mark. If you wanted to switch to another saved work space or profile for example the one marked Swiss Franc or EUR in the above example, then you would just click on name of the profile that you want and the load it on the MT4 platform.

Loaded work space 'My Work Space' is also displayed at the bottom center of the MT4 platform: (below $100,000 account balance transaction window, below the 'Experts' tab, at the middle bottom position of the MetaTrader 4 software as shown above).

Another short-cut to load this 'profiles' is using this button at the bottom center position of MT4 trade platform as portrayed below.

Saving and Loading Profiles in MT4

From this guide, now as a trader you have learned how to save a work space using the profiles button on the MT4 platform, under the file drop down menu & you can now save as many profiles as you want on yourMT4 platformand then select any of these saved profiles any other time that you may require to trade with them.