Stock Platform MT4 Market Watch Window For Adding MetaTrader 4 Stock Quotes in MetaTrader 4 Software
The market watch window in MT4 is used to display an array of Stock quotes for stock. To access this display on the MT4 a trader should go to view menu as displayed and shown below and select Market Watch Window by Clicking on it. (The Ctrl+M is the short cut for accessing this window popup as displayed below, by pressing this shortcut, you can enable market watch window tab without going to 'view' menu)
Market Watch Window
Once a trader selects the stocks market watch window, the following window panel will pop-up showing a list of symbols available for trading.
As a trader you may also want to trade an instrument that is not listed on this list. For example, on the above list only 5 trading instruments are displayed. To get the other symbols that aren't listed, you can right click inside market watch window as illustrated and shown below and the following window will appear.
To show a list of other symbols, choose the 'Show All' button, this will then display all available pairs.
To Save Internet Bandwidth, (Especially if you are using mobile trader, or pay per MB inter-net)
To save bandwidth choose a list of all the trading instruments you'll be trading, say for example, ten pairs, after selecting , then select and click 'Hide All' button, this will hide all the pairs that you don't require to trade and will save you a great amount of internet bandwidth.
Even if you don't want to save band width, you can select the option to 'Hide All', this will save computer processor resources and RAM, especially for brokers that provide hundreds of MetaTrader 4 symbols and financial instruments, there's no need to have all these 100 or 200 financial instruments streaming on your trading platform after all you need only about 10 streaming quotes or just a few financial instruments to trade. You can always 'Show All'>>> Select a new pair by opening a stocks chart, >>> Then hide all, your newly chosen ones will be added on this minimized list.
Other Market Watch Options
Below is an explanation of each market watch window, Download MT4 & click the button keys below to get an illustration of the explanations made below.
Symbols Options - Symbols option can be used to also add or hide MetaTrader 4 symbol. You can download MT4 & click quotes to see how you can add or remove instruments using this option.
Sets - A set of grouped stock trading instruments
High/Low - Displays the high and low of the day next to the quote
Time - Displays the current time of day next to the quote
Auto Arrange - Automatically arrange according to the chosen order
Grid - Add or Remove Grid on the Stock Price Quotes
Popup Stock Prices - Show stock prices as a Pop Up Window within the MT4 Stock Trading Platform.
