Learn MetaTrader 5 Indices Trading Software
The following tutorials explain how to use the MT5 Indices Trading Platform, each guide is accompanied by numerous screen-shots so as to help traders to understand concepts explained & make it easier to learn about this online indices trading platform.
Introduction
File
- Opening a Practice Account Procedure
- Open a Indices Chart
- Opening Offline Chart
- Opening a Deleted Chart
- Saving a Profile
- Login to an Account
- Printing Indices Charts
View
- Changing Language
- Tool Bars
- Connection Bars
- Charts Bar
- Market Watch Window
- Data Window
- Navigator Window
- MetaTrader 5 Terminal Window
- Indices Trading 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 & Indices Trading Step by Step
- Setting Properties
Tools
- Place New Order
- History Center on Tools Menu
- Options Settings
- MetaEditor Custom Indicators
- MetaEditor Automated Indices Expert Advisors
Window Menu
Help Menu
Toolbars
Advanced Topics
- MQL5 Signals - Copy Top MT5 Traders
- Advantages MQL5 Signals
- Signal Seller Advantages
- MQL5 Automated Indices Expert Advisors
How to Place Stock Indices Technical Indicators
- Accelerator Oscillator
- Accumulation Distribution
- Alligator
- ADX
- Average True Range Indicator
- Awesome Oscillator
- Bears Power
- Bollinger Bands Indicator
- Bulls Power
- CCI
- Demarker
- Force Index
- Fractals
- Gator Oscillator
- Heiken Ashi
- Ichimoku
- 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 MT5 work space in MT5, or how to save a system/MetaTrader 5 stock indices chart template. Before starting the tutorial, the screen shot below shows how to save a MT5 stock indices chart template or a stock indices system & also how to save a MT5 work space. The same MT5 buttons are also used to load the MT5 stock indices chart template on another separate chart. (click on these MT5 buttons to get options on your MT5 Indices Trading Platform)
How to Save a MT5 Work Space, How to Save a Template - Indices Software Guides
The MT5 is part of the online stock indices market. The MT5 software is installed on a client's computer.
The screen-shot below shows the user inter-face of the MT5.
MT5 software Workspace
According to indices trading platforms reviews, MT5 is the most widely used indices platform. This is because it is easy to learn & can do the following tasks.
The MetaTrader 5 software is installed on a indices trader's PC Desktop computer and it is intended to accomplish the following:
- Plot graphical Data about exchange rates in the form of a grid/chart
- Receive streaming exchange quotes from the indices brokers
- Perform trade operations: buying and selling
- Show the open transactions & orders within indices trading platform workspace
- Perform stock indices trading technical analysis
- Testing of strategies on practice practice stock indices trading accounts
- Coding of custom indicators & Automated Indices Expert Advisors for the purpose of automated indices trading.
- Provide statements of transaction history & a summary of profits/losses.
The MetaTrader 5 online indices trading platform which is also referred to as MetaTrader 5, is designed to provide technical tools that can be used by Indices traders to make buy or sell decisions. This indices software provides online quotes and streaming data about stock indices price movement drawn in the form of stock indices price charts. This information is delivered direct to the MT5 Indices Trading Platform interface. This information that is delivered in form of real-time quotes is then interpreted using technical analysis tools which are provided for within this online trading platform.
This is a free indices platform that is provided for by online indices brokers. You can download the platform from online brokers web sites, once you download it, you should then setup & install the platform on a Desktop computer which has an inter net connection and then connect to your stock indices broker & begin receiving streaming quotes.
The MT5 has different window & chart panels, each designed to deliver a different type of market information, starting with the exchange rate quotes used to draw indices trading graphs to the stock indices trading market data window, MT5 tool bars for attaching indicators & the main menu bar used to navigate the platform.
