Forex Video Zone

This free Forex video will introduce the concept of forward-testing in MetaTrader to you. Forward-testing of the expert advisors is much slower than the backtesting, but it’s also much more reliable than the backtests as you trade in the real market conditions with the real flow of ticks and quotes.

The concept of backtesting of the custom expert advisors in the MetaTrader platform is explained in this free Forex video. Backtesting is a very useful tool that allows traders to test their strategies and expert advisors before using them on their real accounts. The advantage of using the MetaTrader backtesting over the forward-testing on demo is rather obvious — it’s faster and can cover periods of several years; and you can also optimize it automatically [...]

To test the expert advisors in the MetaTrader 4 platform you need to have a quality historical data for backtesting. This video will show you how to download better backtesting data for the higher modeling quality in the MetaTrader strategy tester.

This video talks about optimization of the MetaTrader expert advisors on the backtests for them to run more profitably in the forward-tests and in the actual real accounts. Watch this video tutorial on optimization to understand it more deeply.

Not all Forex traders trade by charts, some prefer to read only the price changes (the quotes) and trade using this information. But even for the common traders, understanding the quote changes is very important. This trading video will help you to understand how to read the Forex quotes in MetaTrader 4 platform.

This Forex video tutorial explains what does trading with a trend mean and how to spot this trend on different timeframes. Finding a trend is your first task if you want to trade with a trend successfully. All examples are shown using the MetaTrader 4 platform and a moving average indicator.

This is an introductory Forex video set up with the help of the MetaTrader 4 platform. This video will be useful to those who don’t yet know much about Forex and those who want to understand the mechanics of trading in this market. You’ll get the basic ideas on the candlestick charts, MT4 platform and moving average from this video.

This is a rather short video demonstration on how to apply expert advisors in the MetaTrader 4 platform. The video shows how to add the expert advisors on the chart, configure them, download custom EAs and load them into your platform.

Terminal window in MetaTrader 4 is the main status window of the terminal. It can list the currently open orders and positions, account history with the closed positions and the related details, the news supplied by your Forex brokers, trade alerts issued by the indicators and expert advisors, the messages from your broker, the error log for the expert advisors and the journal of events for the whole platform. To get more details — please, watch this free Forex video [...]

Through the navigator window of the MetaTrader 4 platform you can do many things with your terminal — manage accounts, apply standard and custom indicators to the Forex charts, attach expert advisors and run the automated scripts. Watch this basic tutorial on navigator window to know better about the capabilities of your MetaTrader 4.