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Metatrader 4 Tutorial – How To Scroll Bar-By-Bar

July 18th, 2011 / Leave a comment
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Today, I have quick tip on how to do a little backtesting in Metatrader 4 while you are waiting for your setups to give you a signal to enter the market.  Sometimes you want to see what a trade looks like as it sets up, but you do not want to wait for it to [...]

Metatrader MT4 Tutorial – How to Retrieve a Deleted Chart Window

April 26th, 2011 / 2 comments
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Doh!  Have you ever spent 10 minutes setting up one chart only to accidentally delete it immediately afterwards?  That has happened to me several times in the past, usually in the middle of trading.  Instead of seeing if there was an undo button command I would go about rebuilding the chart as soon as possible [...]

Metatrader MT4 Tutorial – How to See the Current Chart in Full Screen Mode

April 20th, 2011 / Leave a comment
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This video will show you how to toggle back and forth between full screen and regular view modes. It will also show you some shortcut keys to take a peak at different windows while you are in full screen mode. [...]

How to Setup Metatrader Text Message Alerts

November 17th, 2010 / 14 comments
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Wouldn’t it be nice if you could get a text message whenever the price of your favorite pair hits your trigger level? Now you can! This tutorial will show you how to setup Metatrader text message alerts. Watch the step-by-step videos on how to do it. [...]

Metatrader Tip - How to Setup a Clean Chart as a Template

November 9th, 2010 / Leave a comment

Here is a quick tip on how I setup a clean chart.

By “clean chart” I mean a starting point where you can start adding indicators. There may be times when you want to look at a chart without indicators or perhaps you want to try a new strategy and need [...]

Metatrader Tutorial - Adding Price Levels to Fibonacci Retracements

September 20th, 2010 / 2 comments

If you use Fibonacci Retracements a lot, this tutorial may just be for you.  In a previous post, I showed you how to do this with a few screen shots and some written instructions.

Since then, I have become significantly more sophisticated (cough, cough) and I thought that I would do a video for you [...]

Metatrader Tutorial - How to Get Back to the Current Bar Immediately

September 7th, 2010 / Leave a comment

Here is the quick Metatrader tip of the day.

Sometimes, you go back in the history of a chart to see what has happened in the past few days.  However, if you want to get back to the current bar quickly, it doesn’t always happen.  When you press the Auto Scroll button, it can take [...]

How To Setup Text Mesage Alerts In Metatrader For Free

April 7th, 2010 / 6 comments
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UPDATE: (4/7/11): The free option is not working anymore.  The only way to setup text message alerts is by following the instructions in this post.

How do you know when the GBPCHF is close to entering a limit order when you are away from your computer?  Set up an alarm that sends a text [...]

Metatrader 4 Tips - Fib Levels

April 9th, 2009 / Comments are closed

I just learned something from Triffany (Rob Booker) on a webinar today that I found very useful.

When setting your Fibs, you can also set it so that Metatrader gives you the price at the Fib level, so you don’t have to guess or measure it.

To add the price levels, do the following:

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