MT4 Trading Platform - Placing Orders and Modifying Settings
MetaTrader 4 trading platform one-click trading
One click trading is ideal when placing market orders. It saves you a lot of time when one click trading is enabled. The most important part about one click trading is setting the default trade size. Before starting to use One-click trading, ensure that you first set the trade size correctly. On the MT4 Platform: Go to Tools>Options>Trade and Select 'Size by default' to the lot size (choose from 0.01 lot or higher). Check 'One Click Trading' and accept the terms, as shown in the box below:


MT4 trading platform customization
To change the chart colors on the MT4 platform, right click on the chart and select ‘Properties’ or go to Charts>Properties from the menu (or press F8) which opens the Chart Properties window which has two tabs Colors/Common. In the Colors tab, use the drop down to select the colors of your choice or choose from the three default color themes from the 'Color Scheme' selection. On the Common tab you can further use the options to switch between chart types, enable/disable other features such as Ask Line/Grid/Period separators etc.

MT4 trading platform shortcuts
- CTRL+G: Toggle between displaying or hiding the grid
- CTRL+Y: Toggle between displaying or hiding the period separator
- CTRL+F: Toggle between displaying or hiding the crosshairs
- F8: Open chart properties window
- F9: Open the trade window
- CTRL+N: Hide/Close Navigation window
- CTRL+M: Hide/Close Market watch window
- CTRL+I: Opens the indicators window that are applied to the chart
- ALT+1: Switch to OHLC Bar Chart
- ALT+2: Switch to Candlestick Chart
- ALT+3: Switch to Line chart
- +/-: Zoom in or out of the chart
- F11: Full screen charts
- CTRL+T: Show/Hide the terminal window

Adding customized indicators to the MT4 trading platform
Customized indicator option is not available for MT4 Webtrader. On the MT4 trading platform you can add custom indicators. Click on “File>Open Data Folder” which opens the destination to where your MT4 profile is located. Double-click on MQL4 folder and go to Indicators folder. You can copy/paste the custom indicators here.

Placing Limit or Pending Orders
On the MT4 trading platform, you can place limit or pending orders by right-clicking on the chart and selecting Trading>Buy/Sell Limit which will set a pending limit buy or sell order at the price where your cursor is. Alternately, press F9 on your keyboard to open the order window. Change Type from Market Execution to Pending Order and proceed with the appropriate buy or sell limit orders. You can also set the expiry time for the order under the ‘Expiry’ section:

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