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MT4 XAUUSD Platform Technical Analysis - MT4 Technical Indicators
The following tutorials explain how to use the MT4 platform, each tutorial is accompanied by numerous screen-shots so as to help beginners to understand the concepts described and make it easier to learn about this online XAUUSD platform.
Introduction
File
- Opening a Demo Account Procedure
- Open a XAUUSD Chart
- Opening Offline Chart
- Opening a Deleted Chart
- Saving a Profile
- Login to an Account
- Printing XAUUSD Charts
View
- Changing Language
- Tool Bars
- Connection Bars
- Charts Bar
- Market Watch Window
- Data Window
- Navigator Window
- MT4 Terminal Window
- XAUUSD 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 Chart
- Line Chart
- Candlesticks
- Time frames - Periodicity
- Saving a Template
- Grid, Volumes, Auto Scroll and Shift
- Zoom in, Zoom Out and Step by Step
- Setting Properties
Tools
- Place New Order
- History Center on Tools Menu
- Options Settings
- MetaEditor Custom Indicators
- MetaEditor Expert Advisors
Window Menu
Help Menu
Toolbars
Advanced Topics
- MQL5 Signals - Copy Top MetaTrader 4 Traders
- Advantages MQL5 Signals
- Signal Seller Advantages
- MQL5 Expert Advisors
How to Place XAUUSD Indicators
- Accelerator Oscillator
- Accumulation Distribution
- Alligator
- ADX
- Average True Range Indicator
- Awesome Oscillator
- Bears Power
- Bollinger Bands Indicator
- Bulls Power
- Commodity Channel Index
- Demarker
- Force Index
- Fractals
- Gator Oscillator
- Heiken Ashi
- Ichimoku Kinko Hyo Indicator
- MACD
- Market Facilitation Index
- Momentum
- Money Flow Index
- Moving Average Envelopes
- Moving Average Indicator
- Moving Average Oscillator
- On Balance Volume
- Parabolic SAR
- Relative Strength Index
- Relative Vigor Index
- Standard Deviation
- Stochastic Oscillator Indicator
- Volumes
- Williams Percentage Range
- Zigzag
Most popular search is how to save a work space in MT4, or how to save a system/template. Before beginning the guide, screenshot below shows how to save a template or a trading system & also how to save a workspace. The same button keys are also used to load the chart template on another separate chart. (click on these buttons to get options on your MT4 platform)
How to Save a Work Space, How to Save a Template
The MT4 is part of the online xauusd market. The MT4 software is installed on a client's computer.
The image below shows the user interface of the MetaTrader 4.
MT4 software Workspace
According to XAUUSD trading platforms reviews, MT4 is the most widely used XAUUSD trading platform. This is because it is easy to learn & can do the following tasks.
The MT4 software is installed on a trader's PC computer & it is intended to do the following:
- Plot graphical Information about exchange rates in form of a grid/trading chart
- Receive streaming exchange quotes from the XAUUSD brokers
- Perform trade operations: buying & selling of currencies
- Show the open transactions & orders within the platform workspace
- Perform technical analysis
- Testing of strategies on practice demo accounts
- Coding of custom indicators & Expert-Advisors for the purpose of automated xauusd trading.
- Provide statements of transaction history and a summary of profits/losses.
The MetaTrader 4 online trading platform which is also known as MT4, is designed to provide technical tools that can be used by XAUUSD traders to make buy or sell decisions. This xauusd platform provides online quotes and streaming data about price movement plotted in the form of price charts. This information is delivered directly to the MT4 platform interface. This information that is delivered in the format of real-time quotes is then analyzed using technical tools provided for within this online trading platform.
This is a free XAUUSD platform which is provided for by online XAUUSD brokers. You can download the platform from online brokers sites, once you download it, you should then setup and setup the platform on a Desktop PC computer which has an inter net connectivity and then connect to your broker & start receiving streaming quotes.
The MT4 has different window & chart panels, each designed to deliver a different type of market data, starting with the exchange rate quotes used to plot xauusd graphs to the market data window panel, tool-bars for attaching indicators & the main menu bar used to navigate the trading platform.
