MT4 Platform - MetaTrader 4 Platforms - MT4 (MetaTrader 4) - MT4 Brokers
MT4 Platform Analysis - MT4 Indicators
The following guides explain how to use the MetaTrader 4 software, each tutorial is accompanied by numerous screen-shots so as to help traders to understand concepts explained & make it easier to learn about this online Forex platform.
Intro
File
- Registering a Demo Account Procedure
- Open a Chart
- Opening Offline Chart
- Opening a Deleted Chart
- Saving a Profile
- Sign In to an Account
- Printing Charts
View
- Change Language
- Tool-Bars
- Connectivity Bars
- Charts Bar
- Market-Watch Window
- Data Window
- Navigator Window
- MetaTrader 4 Terminal Window
- Forex Strategy Tester
Insert
- Indicators Insert Menu
- Insert Line Studies
- Placing Channels
- Gann Lines Indicator
- Placing Fib 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 & Shift
- Zoom in, Zoom Out and Step by Step
- Setting Chart Properties
Tools
- Open New Trade Order
- History Center in Tools Menu
- Options Settings
- MetaEditor Custom Indicators
- MetaEditor EAs
Window Menu
Help Menu
Tool-Bars
Advanced Topics
How Do I Set Forex Indicators
- Accelerator Oscillator
- Ac Dc
- Alligator
- ADX
- Average True Range Indicator
- Awesome Oscillator
- Bears Power
- Bollinger ##BandsBand
- Bulls Power
- Commodity Channel Index
- Demarker
- Force Index Indicator
- Fractals Indicator
- Gator Oscillator
- Heiken Ashi
- Ichimoku Kinko Hyo Indicator
- MACD
- Market Facilitation Index Indicator
- Momentum Indicator
- Money Flow Index Indicator
- MA Envelopes Indicator
- Moving Average Indicator
- Moving Average Oscillator
- OBV
- Parabolic SAR
- RSI
- Relative Vigor Index Indicator
- Standard Deviation
- Stochastic Indicator
- Volumes Indicator
- Williams % Range
- Zigzag Indicator
Most popular search is how to save a workspace in MT4, or how to save trade system/template. Before beginning the lesson, screenshot below highlights how to save a template or a system & also how to save a workspace. Same buttons are also used to load the chart template on another separate chart. (click on the buttons to get options on your Meta Trader 4)
How to Save a Work Space, How to Save a Template
The MT4 is part of the online forex market. The MT4 software is installed on a client's Desktop computer.
The image below shows the user inter-face of the MT4.
MT4 software Work Space
According to platforms reviews, MetaTrader 4 is the most widely used trading platform. This is because it's easy to learn & can do the following tasks.
The MetaTrader 4 software is installed on a trader's Desktop computer & it is intended to accomplish the following:
- Plot graphical Data about exchange rates in the form of a grid/trading chart
- Receive streaming exchange quotes from the Forex brokers
- Perform trade operations: buying and selling of currencies
- Show the open transactions & orders within the platform workspace
- Perform technical analysis
- Testing of strategies on practice demo trading accounts
- Coding of custom indicators and Expert Advisors for the purpose of automated trading.
- Provide statements of transaction history and a summary of profits/losses.
The MT4 online trading software which is also known as MT4, is designed to provide technical trading tools that can be used by traders to make buy or sell decisions. This forex trading platform provides online exchange quotes and streaming data about price movement plotted in the form of price charts. This information is delivered directly to the MetaTrader 4 software inter-face. This information that's delivered in form of realtime quotes is then analyzed using technical tools which are provided within this online trading platform.
This is a free Forex software that's provided for by online Forex brokers. You can download the trading software from brokers sites, once you download it, you should then setup & install the platform on a Desktop PC computer which has an inter net connection and then connect to your broker and begin receiving realtime quotes.
The MT4 has different window and chart panels, each made to deliver a different type of market information, starting with the exchange rate quotes used to plot currency graphs to the market data panel, tool-bars for attaching indicators & the main menu bar used to navigate the platform.
