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UERGSUIDE MT4+ ANDROID
1. INSTALLATION OF THE APP PAGE 03
2. LOGGING INTO YOUR JFD BROKERS ACCOUNT PAGE 04
3. MENU AND NAVIGATION PAGE 06
4. QUOTES PAGE PAGE 08
A. ADDING FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS TO THE QUOTES LIST PAGE 08
B. OPERATING WITH THE QUOTES PAGE PAGE 09
5. CHART PAGE PAGE 11
A. OPERATIONAL CHART BUTTONS AND SETTINGS PAGE 12
B. INDICATORS PAGE 14
6. TRADE PAGE PAGE 16
A. HOW TO PLACE AN ORDER PAGE 17
B. HOW TO CLOSE/MODIFY AN ORDER PAGE 23
7. HISTORY PAGE PAGE 24
8. MANAGING OPTIONS MENU PAGE 25
A. ACCOUNTS PAGE 25
B. SETTINGS PAGE 26
C. MESSAGES PAGE 26
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Once you have downloaded and installed MetaTrader 4+ for
Android from Google Play, the Metatrader 4 icon will appear on
your screen.
1. INSTALLATION OF THE APP
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To open the application, simply click on its icon.
You will be presented with the options to either start without
registration (1), log in to an existing account (2) or open a free
demo account (3).
Please always choose the option “Login to an existing account”.
You can open a demo account only via the desktop platform of
JFD Brokers or you can receive login details from our customer
support at [email protected].
2. LOG INTO YOUR JFD BROKERS ACCOUNT
PLEASE DO NOT USE THE OPTION OPEN A PERSONAL DEMO ACCOUNT.
You cannot open a demo account by JFD Brokers via the mobile application. If
you sign up for a demo account directly from the mobile platform, you will not
receive JFD Brokers pricing, leverage, or available instruments. It will not be a
JFD Brokers demo account, but rather a generic overview of MetaTrader 4 for
the smart phone.
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Once you have selected “Login to an existing account”, you have
to select the server that you wish to connect to. Type in the Search
field “JFD” and you will be presented with our two servers to
connect to:
▪ To connect to your Demo account, select the “JFD-Demo”
server (1).
▪ To connect to your Live account, select the “JFD-Live01” or
“JFD-Live02” server (2).
2. LOG INTO YOUR JFD BROKERS ACCOUNT
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On the next step you will be directed to the “Login” page.
Please enter your JFD account number and password.
If you tick the box “Save password” (4), you will save your login
credentials, so that you do not have to enter them each time you
open the application.
When you have entered your login details, click on the “Sign In”
button.
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Upon successful login, you will see the “Quotes” (1) screen.
Here you will see just a few of JFD Brokers’ available instruments
that are set as default to show up on your display.
3. MENU AND NAVIGATION
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When you click on the menu icon located on the top left corner of
the screen, you can access the 7 main Control Tabs to manage your
account:
▪ Quotes (1) – shows the financial instruments and their current
spreads listed
▪ Charts (2) - describes price movements of the preferred
currency pair
▪ Trade (3) - here you will find the main information regarding
your open positions (balance, free margin, etc.)
▪ History (4) – contains details about your trading history and
balance
▪ Mailbox (5) – contains all incoming messages you have received
from JFD Brokers. It is important that you regularly check your
mailbox for important notifications about the markets.
▪ News (6) – any news feed installed on your terminal.
▪ Messages (7) – messages from the MQL5.community and Expert
Advisors.
The “Quotes”, “Charts”, “Trade”, “History” and “News” options are
available as tab at the bottom of the screen as well.
3. MENU AND NAVIGATION
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A. ADDING FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS TO THE QUOTES LIST
To add more financial instruments to your “Quotes” list, select the
“Plus” (+) button (1) from the top right-hand 2 icons. In the next
window you will see a list of all financial instruments grouped in
the same categories that are shown on your MT4+ Desktop
terminal. When you click on a category, a new page with a full list
of its instruments appears. To add a new instrument, you just need
to click on it.
4. QUOTES PAGE
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By dragging the row of a certain instrument up or down, you can
rearrange the order of the listed symbols. In order to enable this
functionality, you need to click on the “Pen” icon (2) on the top
right-hand side order of your screen.
Use the “Recycle Bin” (3) to remove unwanted instruments.
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B. OPERATING WITHIN THE QUOTES PAGE
By tapping and holding down on a certain financial instrument from
the “Quotes” list, a pop up box with 4 options will be presented to
you: New order (1); Open chart (2); Symbol properties (3);
Advanced view mode (4).
Using the “New order” option, you can place a trade for the
specific instrument you have selected. Selecting the “Open chart”
option will allow you to see the chart of the specified instrument.
4. QUOTES PAGE
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The “Symbol properties” option provides you with detailed
information for the preferred instrument, including: Spread (5);
Digits (6); Stop levels (7); Pending orders (they are valid Good Till
Canceled) (8); Contract size (9); Profit calculation mode (10); Swap
type (11); Swap short (12); Margin calculation (13); Margin hedge
(14).
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The quotes can be displayed in an Advanced view mode or in the
default Simple view mode.
4. QUOTES PAGE
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You could also customize the “Quotes” page using the “Settings”
section (2) of the managing options menu and then you can
directly choose the preferred mode.
For the “Symbol” section, please have a look at chapter 4a.
By selecting the “Advanced
mode” (1) option you can see
the spreads (shown in
pipettes), the time when the
prices were last updated, and
high and low price levels.
In contrast to the “Advanced
mode”, the “Simple mode”
displays only the ask and bid
price, without high and low
price levels, spreads and time
of updating.
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You can access the Chart page by clicking on the Chart tab (1) at
the bottom of the screen.
The Chart page of the mobile platform will always show the
current instrument you have selected.
You can zoom in or zoom out the chart by dragging two fingers
across the display and pinching to zoom in and out.
5. CHART PAGE
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A. OPERATIONAL CHART BUTTONS AND SETTINGS
To use the crosshair click the Plus button (1). To change the
instrument that is displayed, select the Dollar button (2).
The Clock button (3) allows you to switch between different
timeframes for your chart.
You have 9 different time intervals (Periodicity) to choose from:
M1 – one minute chart; M5 – five minutes chart; M15- fifteen
minutes chart; M30 – thirty minutes chart; H1 – one hour chart;
H4 – four hours chart; D1 – daily chart; W1 – one week chart;
MN1 – one month chart
The Add button (4) can be used to place an order. From here, you
can enter the traded volume size; select another instrument and
the type of order execution you want to place – either choosing
between a market execution order or a pending order (Buy Limit,
Sell Limit, Buy Stop, Sell Stop).
For more information about placing an order, please refer to
chapter 6.
5. CHART PAGE
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This application allows you to customise the chart according to
your needs or trading strategies as well. Just click the “Settings”
button (1) of the managing options menu and you will find within
the Settings a “Charts” section (2).
Here you can turn On and Off the volumes, the trade levels, the
Open/High/Low/Close rates and the Data window. Furthermore,
you can choose between bar chart, candlestick and line chart for
your preferable line style.
When “Show trade levels” (3) is enabled, all open positions and
pending orders of a symbol are shown on the symbol chart. The
trade operations are displayed as lines with signatures at the level,
at which they were executed.
The function OHLC displays open, high, low and close price for the
relevant chart period.
5. CHART PAGE
Note: The MT4 app can only open one chart at a time. To change the chart of
the CFD or currency pair, simply go back to “Quote”, choose the instrument
you want to display, tap on it, and in the action menu tap on Chart. Your
customised chart characteristics will not be lost in this process.
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B. INDICATORS
By selecting the Indicator button (1) on the “Charts” screen, the
page “Indicators” (2) will appear for the particular instrument
shown on the chart.
1. To add an indicator, click the “Plus” (+) button.
2. You will find four major indicator groups: Trend, Oscillators,
Volumes, Bill Williams.
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3. A list of all available indicators will appear below each group.
4. Tap on the desired indicator, for instance “Moving Average” (3),
to open its properties window. The properties of an Indicator
may be altered to your own preference.
5. To confirm your properties and go back to the chart, select
“Done”.
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To add another Indicator to your chart, you should open the
“Indicator” window again and add another indicator by clicking on
the “Plus” (+) button.
If you want to edit or remove an “Indicator” from the chart, you
need to go back to the Indicator page by pressing the Indicator
button (1). You should only tap on the particular Indicator, hold on
for two seconds for a new pop-up menu to appear. On this display
you will be presented with two options: “Edit” (2) or “Delete” (3).
5. CHART PAGE
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6. TRADE PAGE
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The “Trade” (1) page can be referred to as Terminal, similar to the MT4 Desktop version. Here you can see your account balance, equity,
margin, free margin, margin level, as well as all open Positions and Pending orders. When tapping on a position from the Positions list you
can see its parameters (Stop loss, Take profit, Swap costs, Taxes. If you have any pending orders open, they will be shown in the “Orders”
(2) section of the page, which should appear below the “Positions” (3) section. Here you will see the instrument, the type of pending order,
the volume, the entry price, and then the current spot price of the position to see how close your order is to being executed. To view all the
parameters of the pending order, please tap on it (as done with open positions). The information given is the same as the information given
for open orders except instead of showing “Swap (4), Taxes (5) and Charges (6)”, it shows “Price, Date and Time.”
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A. HOW TO PLACE AN ORDER
You can open a trade at any time by simply tapping on the New
order button (1). Alternative ways to place an order include:
tapping on a financial instrument of the Quotes page or tapping on
the chart of a certain instrument listed on the Chart page and then
selecting the New Order option from the pop-up menu. Once you
have selected the New Order option, you will be directed to the
page for placing a trade. Here you can choose the instrument, the
volume and the type of order you wish to place (market order or
pending order).
6. TRADE PAGE
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First select the instrument and the type of order you wish to place.
You have the option of placing the following order types:
▪ Market Execution (1): A buy or sell order that is executed at the
market price.
▪ Buy limit (2): A pending order to open a buy position with an
entry price below the current market price.
▪ Sell Limit (3): A pending order to open a sell position with an
entry price above the current market price. Afterwards you
should select the Volume for your trade either by using the
arrow buttons next to the Volume entry field in the relevant
direction or by tapping on the Volume entry field - an on-screen
keyboard will allow you to manually enter the number.
▪ Buy Stop (4): A pending order to open a buy position with an
entry price above the current market price.
▪ Sell Stop (5): A pending order to open a sell position with an
entry price below the current market price.
6. TRADE PAGE
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The “Plus” (+) (1) and “Minus” (-) (2) buttons will raise or lower the
volume being traded. Once you have set the parameters of your
trade, select the “Buy” (3), “Sell” (4) or “Place” (5) button that will
appear based on your order type (market execution or pending
order) at the bottom of the “Trade” page.
6. TRADE PAGE
By some financial instruments (stocks, indices, commodities) the minimum
order volume is 1, while for Forex it is 0.01 lots (1000 currency units). Please
consider the instrument you are trading and enter an acceptable quantity for
the relevant instrument.
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If you choose to place a Market Execution order, it will be executed
immediately at the current market price. After pressing the “Buy”
or “Sell” button, you will be presented with 2 pages displaying
order placement status and details (price and S/L or T/P levels if
any).
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If you have selected one of the five Pending Order types, the next
pages that will appear gives you the relevant details as well.
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Once you see the “Order is open” page (1), your order is executed.
You will instantly see the details of your order along with the price
you have entered the market at.
To enter an execution price, select the Price entry field (1). An on-
screen keyboard appears so as to manually input the price at which
you want to execute your order.
To enter a Stop Loss and Take Profit, select the relevant entry
fields and the on-screen keyboard (2) will appear again where you
will then be able to input the values you desire.
6. TRADE PAGE
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The next button will give you the option to add an “Expiration” (1)
for any pending order that you have placed.
The default setting is “GTC” (Good till Cancelled) (2) for currency
trading. For the other financial instruments, the pending orders
expiration depends from the requirements of the exchanges.
Once all trading parameters are set, select the Place button and
your Pending Order will be placed.
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If the entry price, the SL or the TP you have entered is not correct, the button
Place will remain inactive (in grey).
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Please note that the function Expiration is disabled on the Live Server mobile
application. You cannot place live orders with expiry date.
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B. HOW TO MODIFY/ CLOSE AN ORDER
To close/modify an open position, to add a stop loss or take profit,
you should select the order from the “Trade” page. Just tap and
hold down for a few seconds until the optional menu pops up. At
this point you will be able to modify or close open positions. The
pop-up menu contains the following options:
▪ Close order (1) - to close your order at the market price.
▪ New order (2) – to bring you back to the trade tab to place a
new order.
▪ Modify order (3) – to add or modify your stop loss and take
profit.
▪ Chart (4) – to bring you back to the chart for the instrument you
are trading.
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The History page (1) enables you to view your trading history.
To choose the time period for your history report, press the
button. Choose from one of the following options: Today, Last
week, Last month, Last 3 months, or Custom. “Custom” (2) enables
you to select the time period of your choice.
7. HISTORY PAGE
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To view your trades in a certain order, press the Arrows button (3).
A list of different custom sort options (Symbol, Order, Opening
time, Closing time, Profit) will appear. Tap twice to change the
ordering (ascending/descending).
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A. ACCOUNTS
In the Accounts section (1) you can see all the accounts that you have logged into from your device. By pressing the Plus button (2) at the
top right of the screen, you will be brought back to the Login page, where you can login to a new account. To delete an account, select and
hold onto the desired account and a pop-up screen will appear with the “Delete” option (3). The info of the recently connected account is
shown in a pop-up window that appears after clicking on the i-icon.
8. MANAGING THE OPTIONS MENU
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B. SETTINGS
The option “Settings” allows you to customise your quotes list, and
your chart settings. Please read more information in the relevant
chapters 4b. and 5a.
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C. MESSAGES
The “Messages” section of the managing options of the MT4
application is the place where you can get messages from the
MQL5.community and Expert Advisors by using your ID.
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