Meta Trader 4 Platform Quiz
Do you know what these terms mean?
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.
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Experience is good.
This can put a lot of new traders in trouble by not knowing the definitions, so the above is good advice. As complicated as all the terms sound to a beginner, they will pick them up in due time. NEVER trade blindly and guess. If you don’t what anything is, then check it out on a good site like this, in a forex glossary or a forex forum. Happy trading!
haha nice advice put in the form of quiz, traders like me have sure to learn from this.