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The current price shown on an MT4 chart is the bid price. When looking at a price bar or candle, you must add the spread to the high bid price to know what the high ask price would have been, or add the spread to the low bid price to know what the low ask [...]
Read more about MetaTrader Tips – Understanding MetaTrader Charts and view this post/page in full.Templates can also be created for charts opened from the Strategy Tester and for charts opened independently.
To create a default template for charts opened from the Strategy Tester, you will need to save a template as “tester.tpl”.
For offline charts, the default template must be “offline.tpl”.
If the “offline.tpl” template is not found when an offline chart [...]
Read more about MetaTrader Tips – Saving Chart Templates and view this post/page in full.Use F12 to move through a chart bar by bar.
This function can be very useful when you develop and test your own trading strategies. Simply open a chart at the very beginning of the history (press Home) and move through it bar by bar.
Shift+F12 will move through the chart backwards.
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Read more about MetaTrader Tips – Use F12 with Charts and view this post/page in full.If you accidentally close a chart it can be reopened with all its settings using “File -> Open Deleted”.
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Read more about MetaTrader Tips – Reopen Closed Charts and view this post/page in full.You can check the price range and the number of bars between two points using the ruler.
To do so, select the “Crosshair” object, click with the left mouse button on the first point in the chart and drag the cursor to the second point.
The first number (23) is the count of bars, the second number [...]
Read more about MetaTrader Tips – Check Price Range and view this post/page in full.To print a chart, Press Ctrl+P.
By default the charts are printed in black and white, but they can also be printed in color. Just check the “Color print” field in the “Charts” tab of the “Tools -> Options” menu.
Source: http://articles.mql4.com/189
Read more about MetaTrader Tips – Chart Printing and view this post/page in full.We believe the MetaTrader 4 (MT4) forex trading platform is one of the best and most comprehensive trading and charting platforms available today. Many forex brokers use the MetaTrader 4 platform for their trading platform. There are many MT4 expert advisors (EAs) and trading indicators that easily plug into the MetaTrader charts and that makes [...]
Read more about MetaTrader (MT4) Forex Trading Strategies and view this post/page in full.Important Note: MetaTrader 5 is in testing and the below are goals of the new platform and will MetaTrader 5 still be subject to market conditions and broker setup.
This week I will try to give some insight into what these features really are and how they might impact your trading.
Up first, the new Depth of [...]
