Contents:
1. MetaTrader 4 terminal cannot
connect to my trading account ("No connection" error). What should I do?
2. I constantly receive the "Market Closed" error when trying to
open orders. What should I do?
3. MetaTrader 4 terminal indicates the "Not enough equity" error.
4. MetaTrader 4 terminal indicates that a trading queue is busy.
5. I can't find the full history of performed transactions in
MetaTrader 4.
6. I want to receive a detailed statement of my trading results.
7. What time is shown in the MetaTrader 4 terminal?
8. "Buy Limit" or "Take Profit" order that was placed on a Sell
position has not been executed, although the price on a chart has reached the
order's price. Why?
9. Why there is no such volume of trade as "0.1" in the
MetaTrader 4 "Order" window's drop-down list?
10. Why all of the available instruments are not displayed in
"Market Watch" window of MetaTrader 4 terminal?
11. What are the MetaTrader 4 system requirements for PC, Pocket
PC or Smartphone?
12. What are the IP addresses of Admiral Markets Ltd trading
servers?
13. What should I do if my internet connection has been lost but
I need to open or close a trade?
14. MetaTrader 4 terminal indicates the "Invalid Account" error.
15. MetaTrader 4 terminal indicates the "Account is disabled"
error.
1. MetaTrader 4 terminal cannot connect to my trading
account ("No connection" error). What should I do?
Possible solutions:
1. Please check your internet connection, maybe it is your Internet Service
Provider's problem. Try to surf web pages which are hosted in various countries
of the world. If some pages cannot be opened, contact your
ISP's Technical Support.
2. Try to disable or configure your antivirus and/or firewall software that is
installed on your computer, it may block some internet connections of MetaTrader
4 terminal. The internet communication port 443
should be opened and available to
terminal.exe application. If opening these ports won't help, you can try to
completely disable the firewall/antivirus and restart your PC.
3. If you are trading from your work PC, the office network may be configured to
connect to the internet through a proxy-server. Please ask your System
Administrator to provide you with the proxy server's details such as IP address,
type of a proxy and port. Then you should enter this data to your MetaTrader 4
terminal ("Tools" menu > Options > Server > Enable proxy server > Proxy).
4.
Please ask your System Administrator about opened and closed ports on your
office network. If port 443 is
closed, you won't be able to use MetaTrader 4 terminal. You can ask your System
Administrator to open this port.
2. I constantly receive the "Market Closed" error
when trying to open orders. What should I do?
Possible solutions:
1. The trading session on this financial instrument has not started yet. Please
check the trading hours indicated in this table (click
on any instrument to see further details).
2. If you are trying to buy or sell a Future Contract, please check, maybe it
has expired and the trading is closed. Sometimes, 1-2 days before the expiration
date, the Future Contracts can be switched to "close only" status, so
no new trades could be opened.
3. MetaTrader 4 terminal indicates the "Not enough equity"
error.
If there is not enough free funds ("Free margin") available on your trading
account for opening a position, you will receive such error. Please check
in this table what amount of margin
is required for a particular trading instrument and calculate the standard or
hedged margin for all of your opened positions. If you see that there is not
enough money to open a new position, you can close some of your existing
positions or deposit additional funds to your trading account. Please consider
these trading examples in order to understand
how the margin is calculated for various trading instruments. If the base
currency of your trading account is EUR, your should convert some currency
values to EUR when performing your calculations.
4. MetaTrader 4 terminal indicates that a trading
queue is busy.
Wait some time and try again, maybe your previous order has not been executed
yet or the trading server has not received it because of some problems with your
internet connection. In any case, restarting the MetaTrader 4 terminal should
help in resolving the problem.
5. I can't find the full history of performed
transactions in MetaTrader 4.
Please navigate to "Account history" tab in the "Terminal" window and select
the "All history" option from right-click menu.
6. I want to receive a detailed statement of my
trading results.
Please navigate to "Account history" tab in the "Terminal" window and select the
"Save as Detailed Report" option from right-click menu.
How to interpret the Detailed Report:
-
Total net profit — financial result of all trades. This parameter
represents the difference between "Gross profit" and "Gross loss";
-
Gross profit — the sum of all profitable trades in monetary units;
-
Gross loss — the sum of all unprofitable trades in monetary units;
-
Profit factor — the ratio between the gross profit and the gross
loss in per cents. One means that these sums are equal;
-
Expected payoff — mathematical expectation of win. This parameter
to be calculated statistically represents average profit/loss factor of one
trade. It can also be considered as showing the expected
profitability/unprofitability of the next trade;
-
Absolute
drawdown — the largest loss is below initial deposit value;
-
Maximal drawdown — the largest loss of the local maximum in the deposit
currency and in per cents of the deposit;
-
Total trades — total amount of trade positions;
-
Short positions (won %) — amount of short positions and the profit
percentage thereof;
-
Long positions (won %) — amount of long positions and the profit
percentage thereof;
-
Profit trades (% of total) — the amount of profitable trade
positions and their part in the total trades, in per cents;
-
Loss trades (% of total) — the amount of unprofitable trade
positions and their part in the total trades, in per cents;
-
Largest profit trade — the largest profit among all profitable
positions;
-
Largest loss trade — the largest loss among all unprofitable
positions;
-
Average profit trade — average profit value within a trade (sum of
profits divided into the amount of profitable trades);
-
Average loss trade — average loss value within a trade (sum of
losses divided into the amount of unprofitable trades);
-
Maximum consecutive wins (profit in money) — the longest series of
profitable trade positions and sum of their wins;
-
Maximum consecutive losses (loss in money) — the longest series of
unprofitable trade positions and sum of their losses;
-
Maximal consecutive profit (count of wins) — the maximal profit
within one series of profitable trades and the corresponding amount of
profitable trades;
-
Maximal consecutive loss (count of losses) — the maximal loss
within one series of unprofitable trades and the corresponding amount of
unprofitable trades;
-
Average consecutive wins — average amount of profitable positions
in consecutive profitable series;
-
Average consecutive loss — average amount of unprofitable
positions in consecutive unprofitable series.
7. What time is shown in the MetaTrader 4 terminal?
The trading platform indicates the London time: GMT+1 (summer) or GMT+0
(winter).
8. "Buy Limit" or "Take Profit" order that was placed
on a Sell position has not been executed, although the price on a chart has
reached the order's price. Why?
Charts in MetaTrader 4 are generated using only Bid prices, but the orders
for Sell positions are executed at Ask prices (you can see the both prices in
MetaTrader 4 terminal, "Market Watch" window). The difference between these
prices is a spread. Please take this fact into consideration when placing
your pending orders.
9. Why there is no such volume of trade as "0.1" in
the MetaTrader 4 "Order" window's drop-down list?
You can
manually input any volume you want, starting from 0.01 Lots and
with the incremental step of 0.01 Lots. For example, you can input "0.12" or
"0.03".
10. Why all of the available instruments are not
displayed in "Market Watch" window of MetaTrader 4 terminal?
In order to see the full list of available instruments, please select the "Show
All Symbols" option from right-click menu in "Market Watch"
window. It is recommended to repeat this procedure at least once a month,
because new contracts are added regularly and some expired contracts (e.g.,
futures) removed from the list.
11. What are the
MetaTrader 4 system requirements for PC, Pocket PC or
Smartphone?
The PC version of MetaTrader 4 Client Terminal can operate under Microsoft
Windows 95/98/Me/2000/2003/2008/XP/Vista/Seven.
Hardware requirements are limited with software ones.
MetaTrader 4 Mobile for Pocket PC requires Windows Pocket PC 2002 or higher.
MetaTrader4 Mobile for Smartphones requires Windows Mobile 2003 Smartphone
Edition and later versions.
12. What are the IP addresses of Admiral Markets Ltd
trading servers?
If you have already registered in the Trader’s Room and have opened a real trading account (received your login/password), we recommend to download and install the MetaTrader 4
terminal from our website, it’s the most simple and convenient way because all addresses of our trading servers are already integrated into the terminal, you need only to start the terminal and connect to your trading account.
If any other version of MetaTrader 4 terminal has been
already installed to your computer, you can use this terminal for further trading on real Admiral Markets Ltd. accounts or create a demo-account directly from it. Please use the following server addresses in order to connect to Admiral Markets Ltd. trading environment. You need to enter any of these addresses in the File > Login [Server] or in Tools > Options [Server] text fields.
Servers for real accounts (Admiral-Live):
server4.fxservice.com:443
server5.fxservice.com:443
Servers for demo accounts (Admiral-Demo):
server2.fxservice.com:443
server6.fxservice.com:443
13. What should I do if my internet connection has
been lost but I need to open or close a trade?
Admiral Markets Ltd. provides the reserve telephone line to all customers in
case of any problems with internet-communication or data transfer stability. So
you can place your trading orders not only via internet (MetaTrader 4) but also
via telephone round-the-clock, from Monday GMT 00:00 to Friday GMT 20:00. Please
draw your attention that telephone dealing is meant only for accepting calls
from customers (traders), who wish to place an order or close a position on
their real trading account.
Please use the following phone number of our Phone Dealing service: +372 6 309
306
14. MetaTrader 4 terminal indicates the "Invalid
Account" error. What should I do?
Possible solutions:
1. You have entered an incorrect login (account number) or incorrect password
from your trading account. If you forgot your password, please check your e-mail
that was provided during your registration in
Trader's Room and find there a mail from
Admiral Markets Ltd that was sent to you confirming your registration – your
login details were included in this e-mail. Please make sure, that the password
is entered correctly and all symbols (lowercase & uppercase) are the same as
provided to you during registration.
Please also make sure that you are trying to connect to the correct trading
server (Admiral-Live for real accounts or
Admiral-Demo for demo and contest accounts).
15.
MetaTrader 4 terminal indicates the "Account is disabled" error.
What should I do?
Your real account has been not activated for trading yet.
In order to activate your account for trading, any sum of money should be
deposited to your account (in EUR or USD currency). Demo accounts do not require
activation. Contest accounts are activated automatically when the contest
begins.