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<h1>How do stop orders work in MetaTrader?</h1> Buy stop, Sell stop and Stop loss orders do NOT guarantee an order will be filled at a certain price.  Your specified price is known as the stop price.  Once the stop price is met or exceeded, the order becomes a market order.  Market orders instruct the broker [...]

If you have deleted an object by accident, press Ctrl+Z to undo. Source: http://articles.mql4.com/189

You are able to manually set scale charts in MetaTrader by pressing F8 -> click the Common tab -> then select Scale fix.

The current price shown on an MT4 chart is the bid price. When looking at a price bar or candle, you must add the spread to the high bid price to know what the high ask price would have been, or add the spread to the low bid price to know what the low ask [...]

You receive the “Trade context is busy” message when you try to process two or more orders at the same time. If you have placed a trade and do not wait until it processes completely and then try to place the same trade or a different trade, the commands go into a loop and you [...]

Hot keys (accelerating keys) are keys and their combination’s that allow you to execute various commands fast and without the use of menus or toolbars. Here is a lit of some very useful hot keys for the MT4 platform: Left Arrow — chart scrolling to the left; Right Arrow — chart scrolling to the right; [...]

Use F12 to move through a chart bar by bar. This function can be very useful when you develop and test your own trading strategies. Simply open a chart at the very beginning of the history (press Home) and move through it bar by bar. Shift+F12 will move through the chart backwards. Source: http://articles.mql4.com/189

By using Chart Templates the chart background, bars colors, indicators and objects can be saved and used on other charts. To do this, setup any chart as you wish: set colors, superpose objects, attach indicators, etc. Then select the “Charts -> Template -> Save Template…” menu and save the obtained template as default.tpl

When placing orders from charts there is no need to remember which type of pending orders to use. To place a pending order via a chart just right click with mouse on the desired point in the chart where you would like to place the order and select the “Trading” command in the menu. You [...]

If you have several trading accounts, you are able to create a special profile for each account. When you switch between accounts, the profiles will be opened automatically. To create a profile, you must save it under the name which is exactly the same as the account number. Source: http://articles.mql4.com/189