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Fibonacci retracement is one of the most widely-used drawing tools in technical analysis. It is rooted in the Fibonacci number sequence and the ratios derived from it, and traders apply it to...

A forex trader shows how to add Fibonacci Retracement on MT4.

How to Add Fibonacci Retracement on MT4

The Moving Average Convergence Divergence indicator, commonly known as MACD, is one of the most widely-used momentum indicators in technical analysis. It is built into MetaTrader 4 as a stand...

A forex trader shows how to add MACD on MT4. 

How to Add MACD on MT4

The Relative Strength Index, commonly known as RSI, is one of the most widely-used oscillators in technical analysis. It measures the magnitude of recent price changes to evaluate whether an ...

A forex trader shows how to add RSI on MT4. 

How to Add RSI on MT4

Bollinger Bands are a popular volatility indicator developed by John Bollinger in the 1980s. The indicator plots three lines on the chart: a middle band that is a simple moving average of pri...

Forex trader displays how to add Bollinger Bands on MT4.

How to Add Bollinger Bands on MT4

A moving average is one of the most widely used technical indicators in trading. It smooths price action by averaging the price over a defined number of bars, producing a single line that fol...

Forex traders showing how to add a moving average on MT4. 

How to Add a Moving Average on MT4

The Depth of Market window in MetaTrader 5, often called DOM, displays the queue of buy and sell orders at different price levels for the selected instrument. It is one of the features that d...

A forex trader shows how to use the MT5 depth of market window. 

How to Use the MT5 Depth of Market Window

When the market turns against you, when a news release looms, or when a trading session ends and you want to start clean tomorrow, closing all open positions quickly becomes important. MetaTr...

A forex trader shows how to close all trades at once on MT4.

How to Close All Trades at Once on MT4

The MT4 mobile app gives you on-the-go access to your open positions and pending orders. The Trade tab is the central view for monitoring active trades, with a real-time account summary at th...

A forex trader shows how to see open trades on MT4 mobile. 

How to See Open Trades on MT4 Mobile

A Sell Stop is one of the four pending order types on MetaTrader 4. It is an instruction to sell a specified volume of an instrument at or below a specified price, where the trigger price sit...

A forex trader shows how to set a sell stop order on MT4.

How to Set a Sell Stop Order on MT4

A Buy Limit is one of the four pending order types on MetaTrader 4. It is an instruction to buy a specified volume of an instrument at or below a specified price, where the trigger price sits...

Forex trader shows how to set a buy limit order on MT4. 

How to Set a Buy Limit Order on MT4

One-click trading on MetaTrader 4 sends a buy or sell market order to the server with a single click, without any confirmation dialog. The feature is designed for traders who want fast entrie...

Forex trader shows how to use one-click trading on MT4. 

How to Use One-Click Trading on MT4

A partial close lets you reduce the size of an open position without closing the entire trade. Rather than exiting in one go, you close a portion of the volume and leave the remainder open to...

Screen shows how to partially close a trade on MT4. 

How to Partially Close a Trade on MT4

A pending order is an instruction to enter the market at a price level that has not yet been reached. In MetaTrader 4, you can place four types of pending orders: Buy Limit, Sell Limit, Buy S...

A forex trader shows how to delete a pending order on MT4.

How to Delete a Pending Order on MT4

Moving a stop loss to breakeven is one of the most common risk management adjustments traders make after a position moves favourably. The principle is straightforward: once the trade is in pr...

A forex trader shows how to move a stop loss to breakeven on MT4. 

How to Move a Stop Loss to Breakeven on MT4

A stop loss limits the loss on a trade if the market moves against your position. Setting an initial stop loss when you open a trade is one part of risk management; modifying that stop loss a...

A forex trader shows how to modify a top loss on MT4.

How to Modify a Stop Loss on MT4

A screenshot of your MetaTrader 4 chart is one of the most useful tools you have outside the platform itself. Traders use chart screenshots to build a journal, share setups with peers or ment...

A forex trader shows how to take a screenshot on MT4. 

How to Take a Screenshot on MT4

A chart template in MT4 stores the full visual configuration of a chart: colours, applied indicators, drawn objects, timeframe, scaling, and various display options. Saving a chart as a templ...

A forex trader shows how to save a chart template on MT4.

How to Save a Chart Template on MT4

By default, all charts in MT4 sit inside the main platform window. That works fine on a single monitor but becomes limiting when you want to use multiple screens. Detaching a chart turns it i...

A forex trader shows how to detach a chart window in MT4.

How to Detach a Chart Window in MT4

Adjusting how much price action fits on a chart is one of the most common interactions with MT4. Zooming in compresses the visible range and shows fewer bars in more detail, useful for inspec...

A forex trader shows how to zoom in and out on MT4 charts.

How to Zoom In and Out on MT4 Charts

The crosshair is one of the most useful chart inspection tools on MT4. Once active, it shows the exact price and time of any point on the chart, and when you click and drag from one point to ...

Forex trader shows how to use the crosshair on MT4.

How to Use the Crosshair on MT4

Trendlines are a two-point drawing tool on MT4: you place an anchor at one point on the chart and a second anchor at another point, and the platform draws a straight line connecting them. The...

A screen shows how to add a trendline on MT4. 