Waiting for Update
Trade Context is Busy
Bid – Ask
MT4 charts are bid charts
Margin

Waiting for Update
“Waiting for Update” is a common message with a new account or when switching between a mini
and a standard accounts. There is an easy solution. Go to the Market Watch window, left click
and hold down the mouse key on the pair you want to see in the chart and drag that pair onto
the chart that says “Waiting for Update”.  Release the mouse key and this will automatically
update the chart.

Trade Context is Busy
You receive “Trade context is busy” 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 get “Tread context is busy”.
The only solution is to close down the platform and restart it.

Bid – Ask
All Forex quotes have two parts, the BID and the ASK.
The Bid is the price at which you (as the trader) will open a sell.
The Ask is the price at which you will open a buy.
The difference between the bid and the ask price is known as the spread.

MT4 charts are bid charts
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 would have been.

If you are in a sell (in at the Bid out at the Ask), you would not see the candle reach your stop
loss if you are taken out of the trade. For example with a stop loss of 1.45800 on the EURUSD once
the chart reached 1.45780 (2 pip spread) you would be taken out of the trade at 1.45800. Your take
profit would not trigger until the ask price hits.  For example with a take profit of 1.45400 on
the EURUSD once the chart reached 1.45380 (2 pip spread) you would be taken out of the trade at
1.45400. These examples are based on our spread shown under normal market conditions. Our spreads
are not fixed and will fluctuate with news or other high / low volume conditions.
If you are in a buy (in at the Ask and out at the Bid), you will see the bid price on the chart.

Margin
Margin is the amount of necessary money needed to place/maintain a position.
Margin Level Percentage is calculated by taking:
Equity/Margin x 100 = Margin Level Percentage
Equity (your true Account Value) is your Balance +/- any open positions.
In normally leveraged accounts.

When a margin call occurs, all open positions are subject to liquidation at the prevailing market
prices without prior notice to customer.

Go to the Navigator Box, right click, from the drop down menu, select “set hotkeys”

A double click with the left mouse button on the “Terminal” window title bar will minimize it to the bar of the current account status.

Thus, some additional space will be free for the chart. You can also minimize the window by double-clicking with the left mouse button on the title of any tab in the window.

Frequently used indicators/scripts/experts/accounts can be added to the “Favorites” group to have a faster access to them.

To do so, click with the right mouse button on the name of the indicator/script/expert/account and select the command “Add to favorites”.

Meta Trader 4 platform

has. To call the "Crosshair" object, click the middle button of the mouse or press Ctrl+F. This can be very useful when working in the full-screen mode. You can check vertical distances and the amount of bars between two points using the ruler. To do so, select the "Crosshair" object, click with the left mouse button on the first point in the chart and drag the cursor to the second point. The first number (23) is the count of bars, the second number (157) is the vertical distance in pips, the third number (1.8705) is the bid price in the second point.

through it bar by bar. Shift+F12 will page through the chart backward.