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There are two different ways to get price alerts in your MetaTrader Forex trading platform. The first one is to use the built-in Alerts system. The second way is to use the special Price Alert indicator. The former is much simpler and more customizable, while the latter allows setting visual …

This tutorial covers only MetaTrader 5 indicator installation. If you need info on MetaTrader 4 indicator installation, please, refer to my previous tutorial. So, you’ve downloaded some MT5 indicator and have no idea how to install into your trading platform? Read this tutorial …

Sometimes it’s necessary to copy all your MetaTrader chart settings to another PC or save them while you are reinstalling Windows on your current PC, or in case you are moving to a new broker and have to download their platform. If you keep only one or two charts open — that’s not a problem, but if you …

Trailing stop allows you to automatically protect the profits with your positions. It adjusts itself according to the current market rate and the amount of pips you give it to trail behind. Trailing stop is a great tool for the conservative and long term traders as it easily creates protective «airbag» for the trades. There are two basic ways …

This tutorial covers indicator installation for MetaTrader 4. If you need info on how to install MetaTrader 5 indicators, please, read my Indicator Tutorial for MetaTrader 5.

There are many free MetaTrader indicators available on-line, but some people still encounter problems in attaching these …

Backtesting MetaTrader expert advisors on historical data is a good way to test a strategy. But testing on the limited data supplied with MT4 installation gives a very poor quality of testing (usually below 50%). So, how to achieve a 90% quality in backtesting of MT4 expert advisors? It’s not that hard …

Using Metatrader expert advisors is simple, but sometimes people get confused with it and after downloading a file with the expert advisor a user might get stuck with it without knowing what to do next. This a simple tutorial on how to attach an expert advisor to Metatrader 4 char …