Learn MT4 Platform

The following guides explain how to use the MetaTrader 4 platform, each guide is supported by numerous screenshots so as to help traders to understand concepts described and make it easier to learn about this online platform.

Introduction

• Trading Platform Introduction
• Installing MetaTrader 4 Online Trading Platform

File

• Opening 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

• Changing Language
• Tool Bars
• Connection Bars
• Charts Bar
• Market Watch
• Data Window
• Navigator
• MT4 Terminal Window
• Trading Strategy Tester

Insert

• Indicators Insert Menu
• Insert Line Studies
• Placing Channels
• Gann Lines
• Placing Fibo 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 & Trade 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 Tool Bars
• Standard Tool Bar
• Line Studies Toolbar
• Periodicity Toolbar

Advanced Courses

• MQL5 Signals - Copy Top MetaTrader 4 Traders
• Advantages MQL5 Signals
• Signal Seller Advantages
• MQL5 Expert-Advisors

How to Place Technical Indicators

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

The Meta Trader 4 is part of the online crude market. The MT4 software is installed on a client's computer.

The screenshot below shows the user interface of MT4.

MetaTrader 4 software Workspace

According to platforms reviews, MT4 is the most widely used platform. This is because it's easy to learn and can do the following tasks.

The MetaTrader 4 platform is set up on a trader's PC computer & it is intended to accomplish the following:

• Plot graphical Information about exchange rates in form of a grid/trading chart
• Receive streaming exchange quotes from the crude brokers
• Perform transaction operations: buying & selling
• Show the open transactions and orders within the platform work-space
• Perform technical analysis
• Testing of strategies on practice practice accounts
• Programming of custom indicators and EAs for the purpose of automated crude oil.
• Provide statements of transaction history & a summary of profits/losses.

This is a free platform which is provided for by online crude 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 & then connect to your broker & begin receiving streaming quotes.

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

The MT4 has different window and chart panels, each designed to deliver a different type of market data, starting with the exchange rate quotes used to draw oil graphs to the market data panel, toolbars for attaching indicators and the main menu bar used to navigate the platform.