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I have been helping a lot of customer install, setup and use MetaTrader 4 recently and although its not our preferred platform it defiantly has a place in the trade world for beginners or someone who wishes to have a minimal cost setup. I would even go as far as to say that its a [...]

Building on the success and great response of their previous MetaTrader competition, Fair Trading Technology is launching a $5,000 prize to the best monthly MetaTrader 4 trader starting June 1, 2011. Fair Trading Technology is once again giving traders three opportunities to prove their skills and trading strategies to win one of three monthly $5000 [...]

New MetaTrader 4 Client Terminal build 399 has been released. Fixed margin calculation for hedged positions in the CFD-Leverage mode of margin calculation. Fixed excess initialization of calculation buffers of custom indicators. In MetaEditor, fixed navigation though a file with the tab spacing equal to 1. Fixed errors reported on the forum and in crash [...]

Trading in the financial markets with ease is a well-justified expectation that most forex and commodities traders have nowadays. The ability to start and end trading transactions from any mobile device does not only save much time, but it also brings profit while you are on the move. Another huge advantage of mobile trading, apart [...]

Fair Trading Technology is proud to announce that our transparent, 2-way Metatrader 4 execution bridge is now available at Dukascopy Bank. Access the largest pool of liquidity on the planet through Dukascopy’s SWFX marketplace and have your funds held securely in a Swiss Bank while using the retail traders platform of choice, Metatrader 4 (and [...]

MetaFX, LLC Releases MT4-to-MT4 Bridge Software for the Metatrader 4 Server Trading Platform MetaFX, LLC is proud to announce the release of MT4-to-MT4 Bridge software for the Metatrader 4 (“MT4?) Server trading platform. The MT4-to-MT4 Bridge allows to connect two Metatrader 4 Servers for flexible risk management, automated trade executions (STP processing) and centralized control [...]

GO Markets Pty Ltd is a multi award-winning (AFR Smart Investor Blue Ribbon Award 2009 & 2010, IB Times Best Forex Broker Oceania 2010) Australian registered company offering a wide range of financial products to an extensive client base both here in Australia and overseas. GO Markets is an ASIC registered company (AFSL licence number [...]

FXOpen to offer free education in Moscow Moscow, Russia – April 23, 2010. FXOpen Investment Inc. participated in the Ninth International Exhibition MOSCOW FOREX EXPO, that took place in the Radisson SAS Centre on April 23-24, 2010. The Company was pleased to announce that it would offer free educational courses in trading, starting in its [...]

Fixed displaying of pending orders for symbols with 3 decimal places. At 100 points before the execution price orders are highlighted red. The live update will be available through the LiveUpdate system.

To back test an expert advisor (EA) follow the steps below. Open the Strategy Tester window by pressing Ctrl+R Select the expert advisor you wish to back test Select the symbol you wish to back test Select a testing model (every tick model recommended) Set a testing period Press Start

MetaTrader Expert Advisors file should have the file extension of .ex4 (compiled code) or .mq4 (sourse code). First it is necessary to copy this file to the folder Experts of the MetaTrader working directory (usually C:\Program Files\MetaTrader Broker Name or MetaTrader). The second step is to restart MetaTrader. After the restart the expert should be added to the list [...]

The Foreign Exchange (or Forex) trading uses currency markets from a variety of countries to create a trading market where billions and billions are traded and exchanged daily. If you aim to profit from Forex trading, then you would need to own every single pip that you can get. But this is easier said than done, [...]

Let’s look at how to optimize an expert advisor. In the example below we will look to optimize the size of stop loss and take profit. Expert Optimization Steps 1. Open the Strategy Tester window by pressing Ctrl+R. 2. In the Strategy Tester window, select Expert Properties 3. Select the  Optimized parameters ( in our example stop-loss and stop-profit) 4. Enter the [...]

You can create several sets of symbols and switch between them. This can be very useful if you work with different groups of symbols (currency pairs, futures, etc.). This allows you to hide all “excessive” symbols and save your favourite symbols.

If news is disabled your internet traffic will be reduced. To disable news simply open the “Tools -> Options” menu and un-tick the “Enable news” field in the “Server” tab.

Your internet traffic can be reduced if the unused symbols are hidden. You are able to hide symbols several ways: 1.  Right mouse click in the “Market Watch” window then select ”Hide All”. 2. Select the symbol using the left mouse button then press Delete. 3. Right mouse click in the “Market Watch” window and select the “Symbols” command then hide/show symbols [...]

Frequently used indicators, scripts, experts and accounts can be added to the “Favorites” group to enable faster access. To add indicators, scripts, experts or accounts, click with the right mouse button on the name of the indicator, script, expert or account and select ”Add to favorites”. The listed items will be then available in the “Favorites” tab of the [...]

Double left click with your mouse button on the “Terminal” window title bar to minimize it to the bar of the current account status. This is a quick and easy way to add some additional space for the charts. To restore, double-click in the minimized window or select the “Restore” command in the context menu.

Indicators, experts and/or scripts can be promptly attached to the chart if hotkeys are preliminarily set for them. This can be very useful in the full-screen mode or to save time. It is two simple steps to assign hotkeys; Step 1: Select the “Set hotkey” option in the “Navigator” window context menu. Step 2: Select any keys combinations [...]

To enter full-screen mode simply press on F11 on your keyboard. Once in the full-screen mode, the below hotkeys can be used to open command windows: Ctrl+M – Market Watch Ctrl+N – Navigator Ctrl+T – Terminal Ctrl+D – Data window To return to the normal mode at anytime, just press F11 again.