In this video, you will learn how to set up an expert advisor on your MetaTrader 4 platform. To run an expert advisor, you need to use a windows computer with MetaTrader platform installed. It will not run in a phone that has the MetaTrader app installed.
Assume that you have purchased it or downloaded for free, your EA from a website. Locate that folder that contains this EA. Then copy it and paste it in the target folder. The target folder is identified by clicking File inside your MetaTrader platform, then Open Data Folder, MQL4, and then Experts. Simply, place the EA here in this folder, from the folder you have copied.
Inside your MetaTrader platform, look at the Navigator section. Then look for the Expert Advisors folder to locate your EA that you have just added. Choose the EA that you want to run and drag it on to the chart. Now the EA is active and running as you can see on the chart. If you want to remove it,