Getting Started with MT4 Platform - Learn MT4 Platform - How to Guide for MT4
The following tutorials explain how to use the MT4 platform, each guide is accompanied by numerous screen-shots so as to help traders to understand concepts explained & make it easier to learn about this online trading software.
Intro
File
- Registering a Practice Account Procedure
- Open a Chart
- Opening Offline Chart
- Opening a Deleted Chart
- Saving a Profile
- Log In to an Trading Account
- Printing Charts on MT4 Platform
View
- Change Language
- ToolBars
- Connectivity Bars
- Charts Bar
- Market Watch Window
- Data Window
- Navigator Window
- MetaTrader 4 Terminal Window
- FX Simulator Strategy Tester
Insert
- Indicators Insert Menu
- Insert Line Studies
- Placing Channels
- Gann Lines Trading Indicator
- Placing Fibonacci Lines
- Insert Shapes
- Placing Arrows
- Insert Andrew's Pitchfork, Cycle Lines, Text Label
Charts
- Indicators Listing
- Objects List
- Bar Chart
- Line Chart
- Candles
- Timeframes - Periodicity
- Saving a Template
- Grid, Volumes, Auto Scroll & Shift
- Zoom in, Zoom Out and Step by Step
- Setting Chart Properties
Tools
- Open New Trade Order
- History Center on the Tools Menu
- Options Settings
- Meta Editor Custom Trading Indicators
- Meta Editor Expert-Advisors
Window Menu
Help Menu
ToolBars
Advanced Topics
- MQ5 Signals - Copy Top MT4 Traders
- Benefits MQL5 Signals
- Signal Seller Advantages
- MQL5 Expert Advisor EAs
How Do I Set Indicators on Charts - How to Guide for MT4
- Accelerator Oscillator Technical Indicator
- AD Trading Indicator
- Alligator Technical Indicator
- ADX
- ATR Trading Indicator
- Awesome Oscillator Technical Indicator
- Bears Power Technical Indicator
- Bollinger Band Indicator
- Bulls Power Trading Indicator
- Commodity Channel Index (CCI)
- Demarker Trading Indicator
- Force Index Indicator
- Fractals Trading Indicator
- Gator Oscillator Technical Indicator
- Heikin Ashi
- Ichimoku Kinko Hyo Indicator
- MACD
- Market Facilitation Index Trading Indicator
- Momentum Technical Indicator
- Money Flow Index Trading Indicator
- MA Envelopes Indicator
- Moving Average Indicator
- MA Oscillator
- OBV
- Parabolic SAR
- RSI
- RVI Trading Indicator
- Standard Deviation
- Stochastic Technical Indicator
- Volumes Trading Indicator
- Williams % Range
- Zigzag Trading Indicator
Most popular search is how to save a work-space in MetaTrader 4, or how to save a trading system/template. Before beginning the lesson, screen-shot below portrays how to save a template or a trading system & also how to save a work-space. The button keys are also used to load the chart template on another separate chart. (click on the buttons to get options on your MetaTrader 4 software)
How to Save Workspace, How Do I Save a Template - Software Tutorials
The MT4 is part of the online forex market. The MT4 software is installed on a client's PC computer.
The image below illustrates the user interface of MT4.
MT4 platform Workspace
According to FX softwares reviews, MetaTrader 4 is the most widely used software. This is because it's easy to learn & can do the following tasks.
The MetaTrader 4 software is installed on a trader's PC computer & it is intended to accomplish the following:
- Plot graphical Info about the exchange rates in the format of a grid/trading chart
- Receive streaming exchange quotes from the brokers
- Perform trade operations: buying & selling of currencies
- Show the open transactions and orders within the trading platform work-space
- Perform technical analysis
- Testing of strategies on practice demo trading accounts
- Programming of custom indicators & EAs for the purpose of automated fx trading.
- Provide statements of transaction history & a summary of profits/losses.
The MetaTrader 4 online software which is also known as MetaTrader 4, is designed to provide technical trading tools that can be used by traders to make buy/sell decisions. This platform provides online exchange quotes & streaming data about price movement drawn in the form of price charts. This info is delivered direct to the MT4 platform inter-face. This information that's delivered in form of realtime quotes is then analyzed using technical tools that are provided within this trading software platform.
This is a free platform that's provided for by online brokers. You can download the software from brokers web sites, once you download it, you should then setup & install the platform on a Desktop computer which has an internet connection & then connect to your broker & begin receiving real-time quotes.
The MetaTrader 4 has different window & chart panels, each built to deliver a different type of market data, beginning with the exchange rate quotes used to plot currency graphs to the market data window panel, toolbars for attaching trading indicators & the main menu bar used to navigate the trading platform.
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