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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 [...]

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Feb 8th, 2010 | Filed under MetaTrader General

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 [...]

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Feb 8th, 2010 | Filed under MetaTrader General

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;
Up Arrow — [...]

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Feb 8th, 2010 | Filed under MetaTrader General

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Spreads on the MT4 platform are variable [...]

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Feb 8th, 2010 | Filed under MetaTrader General

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Feb 8th, 2010 | Filed under MetaTrader General

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Feb 8th, 2010 | Filed under MetaTrader General

Development of applications for the MetaTrader 4 Client Terminal requires the knowledge of MQL4. This programming language MetaQuotes Language 4 is a fourth-generation language that has also been developed by MetaQuotes Software Corp. from their own many years experience. MQL4 is the first programming language to consider all niceties of trading on financial markets.
This present [...]

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Jan 22nd, 2010 | Filed under MetaTrader General

Templates can also be created for charts opened from the Strategy Tester and for charts opened independently.
To create a default template for charts opened from the Strategy Tester, you will need to save a template as “tester.tpl”.

For offline charts, the default template must be “offline.tpl”.

If the “offline.tpl” template is not found when an offline chart [...]

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Dec 8th, 2009 | Filed under MetaTrader General

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

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Nov 26th, 2009 | Filed under MetaTrader General

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

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Nov 26th, 2009 | Filed under MetaTrader General