How to trade stocks on the Metatrader Platform (A very robust, with autotrading capabilities and advanced indicators)

There are good trading platforms like Robinhood, Ninja Trader, etc for stocks but none compares to Metatrader when it comes to the flexibility of auto-trading or array of customized indicators available. This post exposes you to the platform and shows you how to open an account and trade on the platform.

Pros of trading stocks meta-trader platform

• It has over 100,000 indicators available for free on the web that provide extra insights in the market
• It has an inbuilt code editor to create your own indicators and robots
• It has several free auto trading robots that you can start with
• Ita comes with signal alert for mail and sound alert
• It allows you to trade Stocks and Forex, and Gold side by side

Cons of  trading stocks meta-trader plaform

• Only few shares can be traded 
• Must of the shares available are the big ones which means you need big capital to trade

Some Metatrader features highlighted for stocks

Steps

Open an account with one of my affiliated brokers

Download the platform from their website

For Live Traders, Select the server where your account is domiciled

Fill in the details in your login details by clicking file on the top left corner and click Login to trade account

For Demo Traders, Fill in create a demo account by clicking a demo server, 

Click Next and 

Enter your details

Go to the market watch section on your left (the window with many currency symbols), Right click it and select symbols 

Then expand the stocks icon to display all the stocks you can trade, then select those you want to trade.

Go back to file on the top left corner and click new chart, then place your mouse over stocks and then select the stocks chart you want to trade

SEE HOW TO NAVIGATE META-TRADER 

HERE  OR  HERE
See an Example of apple chart on Meta-trader 4 with Heiken Ashi indicator coupled with gold-miner indicator

LEARN HOW TO PLACE TRADES AND ORDERS ON META TRADER HERE

LEARN HOW TO INSTALL OTHER CUSTOM INDICATORS HERE


You can also download indicators from mql4 code base through the code base tab at the bottom of the window

DOWNLOAD PLATFORM NOW AND START MAKING MONEY FROM STOCKS