FAQ: Terminal MetaTrader 4
- tab in MetaTrader and choose All History (or other interval) in the context menu. Right-click inside the Account History
- Trading Statements are e-mailed to clients at the end of every Trading Day (if a Client has traded on that day) and Month (even if a Client has not traded in that month, a Statement will be sent anyway). If you need a Trading Statement for a specific time period, you can generate it from your MetaTrader Account History. Right click inside the Account History tab in the MetaTrader, select Save as Report (or Save as Detailed Report), save the file on your computer.
- Select menu Tools → History Center in the MetaTrader and choose the currency pair for which you need the historical prices. To download the historical data, please, take these steps:
- Follow the instructions on using Quotes Downloader.
- Please take these steps to install an Indicator:
- Trailing Stop is a complex stop-loss order in which the Stop Loss price is set at some fixed number of pips below or above the market price. If the market price moves in the direction that is profitable to the trader, the Stop Loss price changes proportionally, but if the currency price moves against you, the Stop Loss price does not change. This technique allows a trader to set a limit on the maximum possible loss without setting a limit on the maximum possible gain. You also do not have to watch the price on an-ongoing basis and modify the Stop Loss price manually.
- Please take these steps to install an Expert Advisor (EA):
- You can get this message on Micro accounts in volatile market. It means, the price has changed since you clicked the Buy or Sell button in your MetaTrader 4. To avoid re-quotes, select checkbox Enable maximum deviation from quoted price and set the deviation level at 3 pips.
- Please, make sure you’ve chosen the correct values for Stop Loss/Take Profit.
- It means that at this moment there are too many requests come to the server or you have slow connection with the trading server. Click the connection bars in the right bottom corner of the MetaTrader, choose Rescan Servers. After that close and open the MetaTrader 4 again.
- You have used your Investor’s password instead of the Trader’s password to log into the MetaTrader. Please choose in the menu File → Login To Trade Account and use your Trader’s password to enter the system.
- Click the connection bars in the right bottom corner of the MetaTrader, choose Rescan Servers.
- The News tab will appear as soon as the first news gets to your MetaTrader. News get to your MetaTrader only while you are online. If a news message is sent out while you are offline, you will not get it when you log into your account later.
- Right click on any currency pair in the Market Watch window and choose Show All in the context menu.
- Most likely that you don’t have enough balance to trade with the leverage you have chosen or you try to trade large volume (lots). To calculate which leverage and volume are best for you and also what margin you need to open a trade, please use this formula:
- To fix the problem check the server address and password.
- The MetaTrader receives only the news titles to alert a trader that an event has taken place. For detailed news information and analysis, please check the Live News and Forex Analytics on FXOpen website.
- For Micro accounts, the account balance, profit, loss, equity etc. in the MetaTrader 4 are displayed in US Cents, but in FXOpen personal area you will see available funds in US dollars.
- When switching between live/demo and micro accounts, the charts may say Waiting for Update. To fix the problem do the following, please:
- The digits in the right bottom corner of your MetaTrader display the traffic. The digit to the left of the “/” (slash) sign displays the Incoming traffic; the digit to the right of the “/” (slash) displays the Outgoing traffic.
- Balance shows the funds in your account based on the closed trades only. When you close a trade, its profit/loss is added/deducted to/from your account Balance.
- The time displayed in your MetaTrader is FXOpen trading server time – GMT +2* (Standard Time). Sadly, MetaTrader 4 does not allow you to adjust the time in MT4 to match your local time.
Updated: 3 months ago