The number of lots you would like to trade. If you want to lock in profits, enter your limit level here.

Enter the level you want the trade to end if you believe the market has moved against you. A drop-down menu allows you to select which market to trade.

Here’s a short guide to all the features within the order window, helping you to place and manage your trades. To execute a trade, go to tools and click new order, the order window appears, you can also press F9 on your keyboard. Alerts you set up are listed in the alerts tab of the platform You can select an ‘Expiry’ date which is the date the alert will terminate.įill out all the required information about the alert you want to set, click ‘OK’ and the alert is primed. Inside the price alert window, you can set a price movement alert for a market if price reaches a certain level or choose a specific time alert. Right-click inside this window, select ‘Create’ from the menu, the alert editor window is where you set your price alert. Open the Terminal window at the bottom of the screen by pressing CTRL+T on your keyboard and choosing the ‘Alerts’ tab.

Select from the list, click edit to customise the indicator settings, or delete. A new window displays a list of all your active indicators on the chart. To edit or remove an indicator, right-click within the chart window, then select ‘indicators list’. Click Insert, next select indicators and choose from the drop-down menu. You can also add indicators using the menu bar. A pop-up window will appear where you can customise the indicators. To add to your charts, simply drag the trading-indicator from the navigator window and drop it on the chart. Some popular indicators include MACD, moving averages, pivot points, the stochastic oscillator and Bollinger bands. You can add indicators to your MT4 charts. You can have multiple charts open at once. You can format your charts so they’re easy on the eye this can be colour or chart type. MT4 comes with a range of tools helping you to customise and personalise your trading charts. Then you simply drag the symbol to the chart, and you’ll be looking at the price chart you want. Here you’ll see a list of symbols that you can add to your market watch window. To find the list of instruments, click ‘View’, then ‘Symbols’, or the short key is ‘Ctrl-U’. Through your MT4 platform, you can trade a variety of markets FX, equity indices, commodities and individual shares. After downloading MT4, simply log in with your ATFX credentials. You can use it on most devices desktop or laptop, smartphone or tablet. Once your ATFX trading account is open, you’ll need to download MT4.

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