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Test all this by yourself, Download Sigma’s trading platform and enjoy an array of features. Representing Sigma’s Meta Trader 4 the Multi Terminal Platform and other useful software. When running the program for the first time, you will see a window with the registration form, after you filling it in, you will automatically get a Practice account, and start experiencing the platform. Overview This is the SigmaForex MT4 Trader program window. The windows are anchored to each other by default but you can customize them in many ways. Most windows are easily positioned anywhere on the screenm, First you need to fill in the required field and choose your options In order to open an account, first you have to:Go to the “menu “bar. Then click on “file “. Click on “open an account “. 
Then a new window will open, you need to fill in the required field and choose your options
And then check in the box next to “I agree to subscribe to your newsletter “ After that click on “next “
Then click “scan” and then “next” and then “finish “ 
In order to open an order, you need to:- Drag and drop the currency pair you want to trade Or - Right click on the currency pair and then click “ new order” 
Then the “order “window will open.
In the “order” window you can set your order as you want. You can define the volume of your position, set a take profit or stop lose, change the order type (instant execution, pending order, or modify an existing order). You can also set the maximum deviation. After that you just choose to buy or to sell. You will then see your opened position in the “Terminal window” - Client Terminal: is a part of the online trading system.
- Receiving quotes and news in the online mode;
- Performing of trade operations;
- Controlling and managing of open positions and pending orders;
- Conducting of technical analysis;
- Writing of expert advisors, custom indicators, scripts, and functions in MetaQuotes Language 4 (MQL 4);
- Testing and optimizing of trading strategies.
For making a decision to trade, reliable on-line information is necessary. For that, quotes and news are delivered at the terminal in the real-time mode. On basis of on-line delivered quotes, it is possible to analyze markets using technical indicators and line studies. Expert advisors allow to work off routine of observing markets and the own positions. Moreover, to ensure more flexible control over positions, several order types are built into the terminal. The Client Terminal can operate under Microsoft Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP/2003. Hardware requirements are limited with software ones. Information about all trade operations performed is stored in the "Account History" tab. The entire history is displayed as a table with the following fields (from left to right): - Order — operation ticket number. It is the unique number of a trade operation;
- Time — time of position opening. It is given in YYYY.MM.DD HH:MM (year.month.day hour: minute) format. This is the time when the position was opened;
- Type — trade operation type. Only three types of trade operations can be found here: "Balance" — entering of funds in the account, "Buy" — a long position, and "Sell" — a short position;
- Lots — amount of lots participated in the operation
- Symbol — this field shows the name of the security participated in the operation;
- Price — price of position opening. This is the price at which the position was opened;
- S/L — level of the Stop Loss order placed. If a trade position was closed by this order, its corresponding cell will be colored in red, and "[s/l]" will appear in the field of comments. If no order was placed, zero value will appear in this field. On the other hand, if the an order was placed, but did not trigger, its value will still be shown in this field. At that, the cell will not be colored, and no "[s/l]" will be output in the field of comments. More details about working with orders are given in the corresponding section;
- T/P — level of the Take Profit order placed. If a trade position was closed by this order, its corresponding cell will be colored in green, and "[t/p]" will appear in the field of comments. If no order was placed, zero value will appear in this field. On the other hand, if the an order was placed, but did not trigger, its value will still be shown in this field. At that, the cell will not be colored, and no "[t/p]" will be output in the field of comments. More details about working with orders are given in the corresponding section;
- Time — time of position closing. It is given in YYYY.MM.DD HH:MM (year.month.day hour:minute) format. This is the time when the position was closed;
- Price — price of position closing. This is the price at which the position was closed;
- Commission — commissions charged by the brokerage company when trade operations are performed will be stored in this field;
- Swap — the swaps charged are stored in this field;
- Profit — the financial result of transaction will be written in this field. Positive number means that the transaction was profitable, and the negative one does vice versa. The profit is shown only in the deposit currency here, unlike it is in the field of the same name in the "Trade" tab.
- Comments — comments on trade operations are stored in this column. A comment can be input only at opening of a position or placing an order. The comment cannot be changed when an order or a position are being modified. Besides, a comment to the trade operation can be input by the brokerage company.
 Market Watch Window
The securities (symbols) for which the Client Terminal gets quotes from the server are listed in the "Market Watch" window. The data are represented in this windwow as a table having several fields. The "Symbol" field contains the security name, the fields of "Bid", "Ask", and "Time" show the corresponding prices and time of their income from the server. Values of the "Maximum" and "Minimum" fields are calculated on basis of price changes within a day. The "Market Watch" window can be opened/closed by pressing of accelerating keys of Ctrl+M, by the "View — Market Watch" menu command, or by pressing of the button of the "Standard" toolbar. This window allows placing market and pending orders and open new charts. At the right mouse button click in the "Market Watch" window, the context menu will appear where the following commands are available: - New Order — opens the "New Order" window where one can prepare and place a market or a pending order for the symbol selected. At the order preparation, one can specify the Stop Loss and Take Profit levels. More details can be found in the "Positions Opening" section.
The "New Order" window can also be opened by double clicking on the security name in the "Market Watch" window, by the "Tools — New Order" menu command, by the "Terminal — Trade — New Order" window context menu command, the button of the "Standard" toolbar, or by pressing of F9; - Chart Window — open the chart of the symbol selected. More details about working with chart windows are given in the section of the same name.
The symbol chart can also be opened by the "File — New Chart" and "Window — New Window" menu commands and by pressing of the button of the "Standard" toolbar; - Tick Chart — opens the tick chart of the symbol selected. Unlike normal charts, the tick chart is located directly in the "Market Watch" window. The tick chart of the selected symbol can also be viewed by switching to the tab of the same name in the same window;
- Hide — delete (hide) the symbol from the list. To minimize the traffic, it is recommended to hide unused securities from the quotes window by this command or by pressing of the Delete button.

This window is intended for displaying of price information (OHLC), date and time of the bar, and the indicators (including custom ones) used. "Data Window" is an information window and it does not allow to perform any actions. The desired information about a certain bar and the imposed indicators can be obtained here promptly. To do so, it is sufficient to place the cursor over the necessary bar. Context menu commands of this window allow: - Copy — copy data from this window into the clipboard for further use in other applications.
The same action can be performed by pressing of accelerating keys of Ctrl+C; - Last Data — show/hide the latest data column. At that, an additional column containing the last bar data will appear in the window;
- Auto Arrange — set up the column size automatically when the window size changes;
- Grid — show/hide grid to separate columns;
- Show — show/hide information fields. Any of the bar prices (OHLC), date or volume can be selected in the sub-menu that appears. If the element has not been checked, it will not be shown.

This window allows getting a quick access to various features of the terminal. This window can be opened/closed by pressing accelerating keys of Ctrl+N, by the "View — Navigator" menu command, or by pressing of the button of the "Standard" toolbar. The list of features is listed as a tree and contains five groups: "Accounts", "Indicators", "Expert Advisors", "Custom Indicators", and "Scripts". The "Accounts" group includes the list of open accounts. Using a context menu, one can open a new demo account or delete the old one. An unlimited amount of demo accounts can be opened from the terminal. To do so, one has to execute the "Open an Account" context menu command or press the Insert button. More details about opening of accounts can be found in the corresponding section. To authorize an existing account (whether a demo or a real one), one has to execute the "Login" command or double-click with the left mouse button on the desired account line. - The "Indicators" group includes the list of built-in technical indicators. They represent the main tools for analyzing the price dynamics. Double-clicking with the left mouse button or the "Attach to a chart" context menu command allows to impose the indicator selected into the active chart. Besides, one can impose an analytical tool in any chart or window of an indicator already imposed, using the "Drag'n'Drop" technique. More details can be found in the "Technical Indicators" section.
- The "Expert Advisors" group contains the list of all available expert advisors. Expert Advisors in the terminal are programs allowing automating analytical and trading activities. To create and modify them, the built-in editor, MetaEditor, is used. More details about creation and working with experts can be found in the "Auto Trading" section.
- The "Create" context menu command allows to create a new expert, "Modify" — to modify an existing one, and "Delete" — to delete an expert from the terminal. The "Attach to a Chart" command or double-click with the left mouse button allow to impose the expert into the active chart. After that, when a new tick incomes, the expert will start working. Experts can be imposed into any chart with the "Drag'n'Drop" technique. Experts' icons colored in grey mean that these experts cannot be used. Such expert must be compiled first.
- The "Custom Indicators" group includes the list of all available custom indicators (counterparts of built-in technical indicators), and the "Scripts" group contains the list of available scripts (programs executed only once). Custom indicators and scripts are managed by using of the context menu similar to that of experts. More details can be found in the sections of "Custom Indicators" and "Scripts".
- Hot keys can be assigned to call any elements of the "Navigator" window, except for those in the "Accounts" group. To set a hot key for an element, one has to execute the "Set hotkey" command of this element's context menu. The hot keys set have a higher priority being compared to those predefined. For example, Ctrl+O is predefined to call the terminal setting window. If this pair of keys is set to call the On Balance Volume indicator, the terminal setting window will not be called by pressing of Ctrl+O anymore.
News Tab
The list of income news is stored in the "News" tab. The news topics are represented as a table and arranged according to the incoming time. The news incoming time, its topic and category are published in the table. This list is updated automatically at incoming of the latest news. The following commands are available in the context menu: - View — view the selected news. One can also read news by double-click with the left mouse button on the topic;
- Copy — copy the news to the clipboard;
- Category — show/hide the "Category" column;
- Auto Arrange — automatic arrangement of columns when changing of the window size;
- Grid — show/hide grid to separate columns.
Alerts Tab This tab contains information about created alerts. The alerts are intended for signaling about events in the market. Having created alerts, one may leave the monitor as the client terminal will automatically inform about the server event. All alerts in this tab are represented as a table with the following fields: - Symbol — security the data on which are used to check for the condition specified. If the "Time=" parameter (alert triggering at the pre-defined time) was selected as a condition, the symbol does not matter;
- Condition — condition under which the alert will trigger. The following can be used as such a condition:
1. Bid> — the Bid price is higher than the specified value. If the current Bid price exceeds the given value, the alert will trigger; 2. Bid< — the Bid price is lower than the specified value. If the current Bid price goes under the given value, the alert will trigger; 3. Ask> — the Ask price is higher than the specified value. If the current Ask price exceeds the given value, the alert will trigger; 4. Ask< — the Ask price is lower than the specified value. If the current Ask price goes under the given value, the alert will trigger; 5. Time= — time is equal to the given value. As soon as this time comes, the alert will trigger. - Counter — the amount of alert triggerings;
- Limit — maximum permissible amount of the alert triggerings. Having triggered this given amount of times, the alert will stop triggering;
- Timeout — the period of time between alert triggerings;
- Event — the action to be performed. This can be an audio signal, a file executable in operational environment, or a message sent by email.
Mailbox
The "Mailbox" is intended for working with the internal mailing system. It is in this window of the "Terminal" where all electronic messages that income to the terminal are stored. They are represented as a table with the following fields: - Time — the time of the news incoming;
- From — the sender name;
- Headline — the headline of the message.
Journal
The "Journal" tab contains information about the stated actions of the trader and the client terminal within the current session. Information about terminal launching and about events during its working, including all trade operations, is stated in journal. There are only the latest messages in the window. To view the earlier messages, one has to execute the "Open" context menu command and select the desired file. The files of the client terminal journal are stored in the /LOGS directory, the filename corresponds with the journal date — YYYYMMDD.LOG. To copy the message to the clipboard, one has to execute the context menu command of the same name. If you have any problem regarding Sigma Forex Platform click on the Live Chat button on the right hand side and our customer support staff will help you through the process. |