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MetaTrader 4 Stock Indices Platform Technical Analysis - MetaTrader 4 Technical Indicators
The following guides explain how to use the MetaTrader 4 platform, each tutorial is supported by numerous screen-shots so as to help traders to understand concepts described & make it easier to learn about this online Stock Indices platform.
Introduction
File
- Opening a Practice Account Procedure
- Open a Stock Indices Chart
- Opening Offline Chart
- Opening a Deleted Chart
- Saving a Profile
- Login to an Account
- Printing Stock Indices Charts
View
- Changing Language
- Tool Bars
- Connection Bars
- Charts Bar
- Market Watch Window
- Data Window
- Navigator Window
- MT4 Terminal Window
- Stock Indices 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 MT4 Traders
- Advantages MQL5 Signals
- Signal Seller Advantages
- MQL5 Expert Advisors
How to Place Stock Indices Indicators
- Accelerator Oscillator
- Accumulation Distribution
- Alligator
- ADX
- Average True Range Indicator
- Awesome Oscillator
- Bears Power
- Bollinger Band 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 tutorial, image below shows how to save a template or a trading system and also how to save a work-space. The same buttons are also used to load the chart template on another separate trading chart. (click on these buttons to get options on your MT4 software)
How to Save a Work Space, How to Save a Template
The MT4 is part of the online stock indices market. The MT4 software is installed on a client's computer.
The image below shows user inter-face of the MT4.
MT4 platform Workspace
According to Stock Indices trading platforms reviews, MT4 is the most widely used Stock Indices 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 Desktop computer & it is intended to accomplish the following:
- Plot graphical Data about exchange rates in the form of a grid/trading chart
- Receive streaming exchange quotes from the Stock Indices brokers
- Perform trade operations: buying and selling of currencies
- Show the open transactions & orders within the platform workspace
- Perform technical analysis
- Testing of strategies on practice practice accounts
- Coding of custom indicators & Expert Advisors for the purpose of automated stock indices trading.
- Provide statements of transaction history and a summary of profits/losses.
The MT4 online trading platform which is also known as MetaTrader 4, is designed to provide technical tools that can be used by Stock Indices traders to make buy or sell decisions. This stock indices software 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 form of real-time quotes is then interpreted using technical analysis tools that are provided for within this online trading platform.
This is a free Stock Indices trading platform that is provided for by online Stock Indices brokers. You can download the platform from online brokers sites, once you download it, you should then setup & install the platform on a Desktop PC computer which has an inter net connection & 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 stock indices graphs to the market data panel, tool-bars for attaching technical indicators & the main menu bar used to navigate the trading platform.
