MT4 Web API
How Get Started with MT4 Web API - MT4 Web Based Stocks Software - MetaTrader 4 Web Browser Platform
The MetaTrader 4 Web Based Platform is the web platform version of MetaTrader 4 Stocks Platform for PC Desktop Platform. MT4 Web Trader Version provides the same look and feel for the MT4 stock platform as that of the MT4 Stocks Platform for PC. The MT4 stocks software is a stock trading software that is installed on a client’s Desktop computer and it is intended to do the following:
- Plot stock charts Information about price rates in the form of a grid i.e. Trading chart
- Receive Streaming stocks price quotes from the brokers
- Perform trading operations: Buying & Selling
- Show the open stock trades and stocks orders
- Perform technical analysis on stocks charts
- Testing of trading strategies on Stocks demo stocks accounts
- Provide account statements of trading history & a summary of profits/losses.
The screenshot below shows user inter-face of MetaTrader 4 Desktop trading Platform.

MetaTrader 4 Web API - MT4 Web Based Stocks Software - MetaTrader 4 Web Browser Platform will be similar to the MT4 stock platform interface that is shown above only that stocks traders will use a web browser to login to the MT4 Web Trader platform. From the Web browser MT4 stock platform stock traders can open trades, analyze stocks charts and get a summary of trading account balance, open stocks orders & open stock trades.
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Traders can use MetaTrader 4 Web API - MetaTrader 4 Web Based Platform when they are trading from another PC computer which doesn't have the MT4 stock platform software installed.
MT4 which is also known as MT4, is designed to provide tools that can be used by traders to make trading decisions. The stock trading software provides online quotes and streaming data about stocks price movement. This information is delivered directly to the MT4 stock platform. This information that is delivered in the format of real-time quotes is then analyzed on the MT4 platform using the technical stocks tools provided for within the MT4 stock platform.
The MT4 stock platform is a free software which is provided for by stock trading brokers. You can download the software from online broker’s sites, once you download it, you should then install the platform on a PC Desktop computer that has an internet connection and then connect to your stocks broker and begin receiving streaming quotes. You can also access this MT4 trader through your stocks broker MT4 Web API - MT4 Web Based Platform.
The MT4 has different window and chart panels each designed to deliver a different type of market data information, starting with the stocks exchange rate quotes used to draw stocks charts to the Market data window panel, MetaTrader 4 Tool-bars for attaching stocks technical indicators to the stock charts and the main menu bar used to navigate the MT4 stock platform.
Installing MT4
To install MT4 you will have to download the trading software, then launch the download, from there a set up wizard appears & all you've to do is to follow the set up instructions. After set up the platform will run automatically just like any other software. You can launch the MT4 from the start menu.
With MetaTrader 4 stocks account traders can login to either the MT4 Web API - MT4 Web Based Platform or the MT4 desktop platform and get access to their stocks account from either of these two stocks trading software.


