Learn MT4 Stock Indices Software

The following tutorials explain how to use the MetaTrader 4 platform, each tutorial is accompanied by numerous screen shots so as to help traders to understand the concepts explained and make it easier to learn about this online stock index trading platform.

Introduction

• Stock Indices Platform Introduction
• Installing MetaTrader 4 Online Stock Indices Platform

File

• Opening a Demo Account Procedure
• Open a Stock Index Chart
• Opening Offline Chart
• Opening a Deleted Chart
• Saving a Profile
• Login to an Account
• Printing Stock Index Charts

View

• Changing Language
• Tool Bars
• Connection Bars
• Charts Bar
• Market Watch Window
• Data Window
• Navigator Window
• MT4 Terminal Window
• Stock Indices 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 Stock Index Chart
• Line Stock Index Chart
• Candlesticks
• Time frames - Periodicity
• Saving a Template
• Grid, Volumes, Auto Scroll and Shift
• Zoom in, Zoom Out and Stock Indices Step by Step
• Setting Properties

Tools

• Place New Order
• History Center on Tools Menu
• Options Settings
• MetaEditor Custom Indicators
• MetaEditor Expert Advisors

Window Menu

• Charts Window Menu

Help Menu

• Help Menu

Tool Bars

• Customizing Layout
• Charts Toolbars
• Standard Toolbar
• Line Studies Toolbar
• Periodicity Toolbar

Advanced Topics

• MQL5 Signals - Copy Top MT4 Traders
• Advantages MQL5 Signals
• Signal Seller Advantages
• MQL5 Stock Index Expert Advisors

How to Place Stock Index Indicators

• Accelerator Oscillator
• Accumulation Distribution
• Alligator
• ADX
• Average True Range
• Awesome Oscillator
• Bears Power
• Bollinger Bands
• Bulls Power
• Commodity Channel Index
• Demarker
• Force Index
• Fractals
• Gator Oscillator
• Heiken Ashi
• Ichimoku
• MACD
• Market Facilitation Index
• Momentum
• Money Flow Index
• Moving Average Envelopes
• Moving Average
• Moving Average Oscillator
• On Balance Volume
• Parabolic SAR
• RSI
• RVI
• Standard Deviation
• Stochastic Oscillator
• Volumes
• Williams Percentage Range
• Zigzag

The MT4 is part of the online stock index market. The MetaTrader 4 software is installed on a client's computer.

The screenshot below shows the user interface of the MT4.

MT4 platform Workspace

According to stock index trading platforms reviews, MetaTrader 4 is the most widely used stock index trading platform. This is because it is easy to learn and can do the following tasks.

The MetaTrader 4 software is installed on a stock indices trader's computer and it is intended to do the following:

• Plot graphical Information about exchange rates in the form of a grid/chart
• Receive streaming exchange quotes from the stock index trading brokers
• Perform stock indices transaction operations: buying and selling
• Show the open stock indices transactions and orders within the stock index trading platform workspace
• Perform technical analysis
• Testing of strategies on practice demo stock indices accounts
• Programming of custom indicators and Expert Advisors for the purpose of automated stock indices.
• Provide statements of transaction history and a summary of profits/losses.

This is a free stock index trading software that is provided for by online stock index trading brokers. You can download the platform from online brokers websites, once you download it, you should then install the platform on a computer that has an internet connection and then connect to your stock indices broker and start receiving streaming quotes.

The MetaTrader 4 online stock index trading platform which is also known as MT4, is designed to provide technical tools that can be used by Stock Indices traders to make buy or sell decisions. This stock index trading platform provides online quotes and streaming data about stock index price movement drawn in the form of stock index price charts. This information is delivered directly to the MetaTrader 4 platform interface. This information that is delivered in the form of real time quotes is then analyzed using the technical tools provided for within this online trading platform.

The MetaTrader 4 has different windows and chart panels, each designed to deliver a different type of market information, starting with the exchange rate quotes used to draw stock indices graphs to the stock indices market data window, tool bars for attaching technical indicators and the main menu bar used to navigate the platform.