Instruction, practical tips for working with MetaTrader 4
1. Be sure to read the manual (Help) Program. It does not take much time, but will remove most of the questions right on with terminal MetaTrader. To do this, press "F1" key on your keyboard or click the "Help" menu at the top of the terminal.
2. Setup menu and workspace
The following is a picture in which the menu and window are one of the species, which is convenient for me. You can configure the terminal to the form convenient for you. I'll tell you how to do it gradually. Tips will be added and this page will grow as new information content.
All windows and panels in MT4, you can drag your mouse and set the right place. Pull the corner or edge of the box, you can resize the window. You can customize the color of the field lines, candles, etc. You can customize the workspace and save it in your profile. Thus, it is easy to create several different representations, eg, instrument groups, and then install the required profile with one click. To get more information or to change the settings of a field, click the right mouse button and you will see a new menu.
3. The "Market", compiling a list of financial instruments.
In order to speed up the terminal and reduce internet traffic to remove unnecessary tools from the list. To do this, do a right mouse button over the field of the "Market", see Figure 2
In Fig. 2. Hide all characters on the MetaTrader 4 (Broco Trader, Broco Investor)
From the menu bar, select "Hide All Symbols" and click your left mouse button. From a long list of most of the characters disappear, leaving only those which have open graphs. You can now turn to the list of tools that you wanted. To do this, click on the Figure. 2 Click the Troc characters.
In Fig. 3. Creating a list of tools in MetaTrader 4 (Broco Trader, Broco Investor)
A new window appears with groups of tools:
In Fig. 4. Group of financial instruments in the MetaTrader 4 (Broco Trader). In the terminal, there is only Broco Investor currency (forex).
A few words about the groups that we see:
FOREX - the list of currency pairs (Forex) and gold (spot), which traded with a spread without commission;Specifications isntrumentov: forex (foreign currency and gold)The second line, CFD CURRENCIES, it is also the currency pairs, but futures on currencies. They do not spread (spread = 0p.), But the fee. It has more information about the differences between futures trading from forex trading. Here it is appropriate to mention the group CHARTS, which includes futures currency pairs, which are not traded, but are used for analysis. We know that all futures have expiration date, when their life ends and we must pass on to a later contract. This discontinuity prevents technical analysis, as well as the construction of mechanical systems and analyze their effectiveness. To eliminate this program, there are the ever-living Futures (continue), they are in a group CHARTS.To finish about trade currencies look at several groups FOREX-COMMIS-50/40/30/20. In each of these are a few pairs. These pairs are traded on the forex rules, but in contrast to the standard and customary conditions (group FOREX), they are traded without spread (spread = 0p.), But with the commission, whose size is equal to the spread of the corresponding pair in the group FOREX. These groups have been introduced for the convenience of beginners, who find it difficult to establish order in the light spread.The next large group of financial instruments: CFD - Contracts For Difference (CFDs prices). The group is so large - hundreds of financial instruments that it is broken down into sub-groups:CFD INDICES - major stock indexesCFD GRAINS - GrainCFD MEATS - Meat and PoultryCFD SOFTS - coffee, cocoaCFD FINANCIALS - FinancialCFD CTOCK - U.S. stocksCFD ENERGIES - energy (oil, gasoline)CFD BOND - government bondsCFD RUS - Russian stocksCFD METALS - MetalsAll tools CFD groups have spread, have no swap at Rollover, but you have to pay a commission when you open the contract.There is not much to say about the group and WORLD INDICES FUNDS.The tools WORLD INDICES contains 50 of the world stock market indices, which are traded Beh commission, but with the spread.Group FUNDS - it's managed funds (PAMM accounts). The link you can read more about uuznat PAMM accounts.We continue compiling a list of tools.If you click the mouse on the cross in front of a group of financial instruments, it will be revealed and we will see a list of tools in this group.
In Fig. 5. List of tools in one group of MetaTrader 4 (Broco Trader).
Select the desired tool and click the "Show", a tool is added to the list in the "Market Watch". This procedure can be repeated a number of times and select the desired tools. If you press the "Properties" button, it opens a window with the basic properties of tools. Thus, we formed a list of tools.Formed in this way a list of financial instrumenov can be saved, you can create several different lists and use any one of them as needed. In the terminal MetaTrader 4 has a few ready-made lists of instruments.List management tools (selection, maintenance and disposal) is already familiar to us through the menu in Fig. 3. To do this, select the line "character set", then "Save As" or "Delete" or select the desired tools from the list.4. Plotting, setting the format of the chart.Look again at Fig. 3. If you click on the menu "Chart Window", that will be generated graph tool selected in the "Market Watch". The appearance of such a schedule will be as specified in the standard template.To customize the appearance of the graph according to your preference right-click your mouse on the panel with the schedule and select "Properties" - the bottom line of the menu or the keyboard press "F8". Panel opens with the aid of which you can select your preferred color scheme, and you can adjust the color of each item in the chart: background, a candle and some of its elements, the color lines. Make it very easy to configure because you can immediately see the result of your changes. So you can customize each window to schedule an individual, but often you want to save your settings to automatically open new charts in a form that you like. How do I do?Right click on the field box to the schedule, see the menu (see Fig. 6.), Select the line "template."
In Fig. 6. The choice of preservation or removal of the template chart window in MetaTrader 4 (Broco Trader).
In an additional menu to the right selecting the "Save Template" and save the template under a new name. Later, you can select this template for any nrafika and thus give him all the pre-configured properties.There is one distinguished name of the template - default.tplIf you save a template named default.tpl, when you create a new chart, it automatically opens with the properties of this pattern.On the right we see a list of menu templates, you can choose one of them and see how it will change the chart field. Maybe some of these patterns will be useful.5. The layout of the workspace in the MetaTrader 4 (Broco Trader).
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