Options Settings on Tools Menu on MT4 Platform
The options button is used for a variety of many different tasks on the MT4. Options button is listed within the tools menu in the MT4 as illustrated below. Shortcut keys for this - Ctrl+O.
MT4 Options Settings
These are shown below: the list of various buttons are displayed as tabs as displayed on the image below. As a trader to edit anything on this window just click on any of these button keys and then change the settings.
Server
The server settings for MT4 are shown below. A trader can edit from this tab, but most of the times it is not necessary as these options are automatically preset to the brokers' server settings by the cryptocurrency trading broker & there is no need to re-adjust them. However, just for tutorial purposes, the Server will show the server of your cryptocurrency trading broker and if it is a Demo or a Real Server. The account sign in & password will also be displayed below and as a trader you can change the password from this window for demo cryptocurrency accounts, however be careful if you are changing passwords make sure to remember them.
Other options are, enable proxy server, this isn't required, Keep personal data at startup, this is ticked by default, that way the software will automatically remember your login & password so that you do not have to type and key them every time you sign in to your trading platform. Enable DDE server isn't required, Enable the news is ticked & you as a trader can use receive real time news data to your MT4 on the News options, located in the Terminal window, (Short cut Ctrl+T).
BTCUSD Chart
following are marked on the Charts Options
Show Trade Levels - These lines will explain levels where orders were placed, it will also illustrate levels where pending cryptocurrency orders are placed. This will also show the Take Profit Order & Stop Loss Order areas. These trade levels lines appear as red broken lines marking these trade areas.
If there's no open trade, no level will be illustrated: if many trades have been placed, multiple lines will be displayed for these levels.
Use Alt key to drag trade areas is not a very suitable option to use, because if you place many orders you might change the wrong order, therefore it is better to leave this as it is and not change it (Probability of this one losing you money is there so leave as it is)
Show OHCL - Show Opening, High, Closing & Low Bitcoin Prices for every candle
Show Ask Line - Show the Bid Bitcoin Price, (no need for this)
Show period separators - a separator will draw a line where the daily chart starts and ends, for example if you trade with 5 minutes, 15 minute or 1 H charts the period separator will draw a vertical line when btcusd trading market closes for each trading day. (4 H separator is Weekly, for Daily & Weekly separator is Monthly).
Color Print - To print in color & not black white which is set by default, use this option and then next time you print it'll be a colored print & not black & white.
Save deleted charts to reopen - Save all charts that are deleted and these can be accessed later at any time within.
Max bars in History, Max bars in Chart - To save computer resources RAM, Processor Speed and Hard disk Space, these bars stored are limited to a specific number that is optimum, it is better to use the default number selected.
Objects
These are:
Show properties after creation - immediately display indicator/line tool settings after it is added on chart to facilitate editing of their properties settings.
Choose Object after creation - an indicator/line tool can be selected by double-clicking on it once it's plotted, to facilitate editing of its properties.
Select object by single mouse click - select an indicator/line tool using single mouse click not double clicking, double clicking will show properties window of indicator/line tool
Magnet Sensitivity - immediately draw a line tool to the nearest low or high that is within 10 pixels of the point selected. This allows for lines drawn to more or less be placed on the levels that they are intended without much editing by aligning these lines to the nearest high or low of bitcoin trading price.
Trade
These are the default used by the platform to determine what instrument you buy & what amount you buy.
Quote by Default - Automatically set to the open chart which you have open
Size by default - Automatically use the last lot size, or set every trade to be default 1 lot or 2 lots or 1 micro lot or 2 micro lots by choose the default button key and then selecting the number of lots from the drop don list next to this option.
Deviation - Set the allowed number of pips that can move away when executing an order for examples 2 pips, or zero pips if you want to specify to place trades at the exact level where you click.
One Click trading - Place trades buy or sell with one click. (do not use this option as it's prone to mistakes & no time to correct, this option can lose you money.)
Expert Advisors
Expert Advisors window is illustrated below:
following options are used:
Enable Expert Advisors - Allow for Expert Advisor to be placed on the trading chart for automated execution purposes
Disable experts when accounts have been changed - sign in to a different account deactivates EAs
Disable Experts when profile has been change - When you change profiles the Expert-Advisors setting for allowing trading in the new profile is deactivated until you allow & manually place an Expert-Advisor on this new opened chart.
Allow Live Trading - Give Permission to Expert Advisor to open trades on the live bitcoin market.
(Ask Manual Confirmation - no needs for this if you are using EAs, leave this one as it is displayed without checking it.)
Allow DLL imports - Dynamic Link Libraries, which are external, unless this is required this should be left unchecked. (External means that these libraries are referenced from a source external & outside your PC computer, so you should try to be careful with this one)
Confirm DLL functions calls - Exercise manual permission for each & every function call, either allow it or disallow it depending on your trade parameters.
Allow External Experts imports - This is used to allow your EA to reference some data from another Expert Advisor that is in another place, away from your PC computer, (External means these Expert Advisor Bitcoin Bots are referenced from external sources outside your PC computer, so be careful with this option)
Notifications
To receive notification on your mobile phone from your MT4 platform, use the notifications option shown below. Not that you're required to have a registration sign up ID, from MetaQuotes to start receiving the notifications that get sent to your phone through text messages.
Check the option, Enable Push Notifications, put your ID, press test & you should get a test notification text message. You require to first register for this ID, to do so, use the following window panel on your MT4 & follow the instruction you'll get from this Notification window.
Email Settings
Most traders might not really need this, but if you are one of the ones that require, the settings can be placed below.
Lets use this company, that owns this web site, www.tradebitcointrading.com, click and check the button labeled 'Enable' the respective mail settings are shown below and the SMTP setting is 'SMTP: Port 465', Select and put these as shown below. Click test & check your inbox to confirm you receive the message.
Events
Events on MT4 are notifications, either sound notification, an email or SMS alert. The notifications can be set for different events such as timeout, connect, disconnect, news, Expert Advisor, Expert Advisor confirmation, price level alert & requote alert.
Various types of alerts actions that can be set for any event can be chosen by double clicking on event action, pressing the dropdown arrow & then selecting the alert action that you want from drop-down list illustrated and shown below.
MQL5 Bitcoin Trading EA Bots Community
The MQL5 forum is a community where traders can find others and Exchange EAs and Bitcoin Trading Signals with each other. Bitcoin traders have to register to this community and can then access services from their platform directly. To get details on how to access and register in this community, login to your MT4 software & navigate to the window shown below & follow the instructions.
MQL5 Trading Signals
The trading signal settings are provided by MQL5, MQL5 is the owner of MetaTrader Software. Signals service allows traders to adjust the following:
Signal - First Subscribe to a signal
Agree to Terms - Agree to terms of using the signal service
Enable Real time tading signal subscription - allow real time transmission of signals to your trading platform.
Use Trusted Execution Token( TET ) - Trusted execution token means you do not have to open your MetaTrader 4 on your PC Desktop computer to have signals executed, Trusted Execution Token will allow signals to be executed even if your MT4 is not started on your computer Desktop PC.
Copy Stop Loss Order & Take Profit Order Areas - Copy these levels from the signal provider automatically.
Use no more than - Option for bitcoin money management, set an amount of 10% for the aggressive traders and 5% for the non-aggressive traders, that way you limit your risk capital in your account.
Stop if equity is less than - Set a percent to calculate this level for example if your equity is $10,000 then use 70%, that is $7,000 & set this amount: if the signal makes a loss upto this point the signal execution is stopped.
Deviation/Slippage - you can set a value like 2 so as to give some flexibility in case of slippage of a few pips here and there when executing trades with your broker, especially if your crypto broker is one of those who re-quotes you. (Get an STP Broker with No-Requotes Policy to guarantee execution of your trades & avoid these slippages).
