Those of you who read these pages (thank you!) must have noticed that most of the charts I post are generated using the Meta Trader 4 trading platform. While I have several trading accounts with different brokers, the core of trades I find suitable for the blog are executed with the broker offering MT 4. This is the most widely used charting software in the Forex industry, one could even call it a “standard”, so most readers are familiar with how to use it.
For all its flexibility, the platform is not the simplest to use, especially for beginners. The manual accessible through the “Help” tab is rather cumbersome to navigate and is located outside the platform – user must open another window and go through often-difficult process of locating the topic of interest to find the answer. Most brokers offer own manuals, which greatly simplify this process. The problem is that those instructions are typically located on the provider’s main website, not...
