MT 5 Android

MetaTrader5
Android
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https://www.metatrader5.com/en/mobile-trading/android/help
INDEX
1. MetaTrader5 for Android- User Guide…………………………………………………………………………………. 4
2. Getting Started…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 5
2.1. Make Demo Account……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 5
2.2. Login to Live Account……………………………………………………………………………………………………. 6
3. Application GUI……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 6
3.1. Quotes…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 8
3.2. List of Symbols……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 9
3.3. Adding Symbols……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 10
3.4. Moving Symbols…………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 11
3.5. Symbol Properties………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 11
3.6. Statistics……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 16
3.7. Context Menu………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 17
4. Depth of Market…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 18
4.1. Market Operations……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 19
4.2. An example of Market Operation…………………………………………………………………………………. 21
5. Executing the Request…………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 22
5.1. Closing Positions…………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 23
5.2. Closing Positions in Hedging Mode………………………………………………………………………………. 24
5.3. Trader Requests……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 25
6. Placing an Order…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 25
6.1. Transferring Orders to an External Trading System………………………………………………………. 26
6.2. Current Position……………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 27
6.3. List of Requests…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 27
6.4. Trading Commands………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 28
6.5. Pending Orders…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 28
6.6. Trade Settings………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 28
6.7. Market Orders……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 28
7. Chart……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 29
7.1. Chart Opening………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 29
7.2. Chart Period………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 29
7.3. Trade…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 30
7.4. Chart Management……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 30
7.5. Radial Menu………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 31
7.6. Crosshair……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 32
7.7. Ruler……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 33
7.8. Data window……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 33
7.9. Resizing a sub window and shifting from the chart edge……………………………………………… 34
7.10. Chart settings………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 34
8. How to Trade……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 37
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8.1. Account State……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 37
8.2. Trading Commands………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 40
8.3. Sorting Positions and Orders………………………………………………………………………………………… 40
8.4. Positions………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 41
8.5. Orders………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 42
8.6. Context Menu………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 43
8.7. Position Context Menu…………………………………………………………………………………………………. 43
8.8. Order Context Menu…………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 43
9. The Menu Button…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 44
10. History…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 44
10.1. Orders………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 44
10.2. Deals…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 47
10.3. Positions…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 49
10.4. Customize the History Appearance…………………………………………………………………………….. 50
11. Mail……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 51
11.1. Writing a Mail…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 51
11.2. Deleting Mails…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 52
12. News Event………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 53
12.1. News Categories…………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 54
12.2. Favorite News…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 55
12.3. Deleting News…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 56
13. Messages……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 56
13.1. Messages Categories………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 57
13.2. Reading Messages ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 59
13.3. Deleting Messages……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 60
14. Settings………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 60
15. Journal…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 62
16. About…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 63
17. Push Notifications………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 64
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1. MetaTrader 5 for Android – User Guide
MetaTrader 5 for Android powered devices is a platform for mobile trading on the Forex and stock
markets. The application allows you to connect to a broker's servers, receive prices and view price
charts, trade and view the history of your trade operations. This is available from anywhere in the world
absolutely free of charge!
With the MetaTrader 5, you can use real and demo accounts. Moreover, you can open demo accounts
right from the mobile platform. Authorize in the application to access all the functions of the
MetaTrader 5 platform.
After authorizing, you can receive prices of financial instruments in the real-time mode, view charts with
technical indicators, and execute trade operations using the full set of trading orders and various
execution modes. Thus, you can implement almost any trading strategy. At any time and from anywhere
you can access the history of your trade operations in order to determine the profitability of your
trading strategy.
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2. Getting Started
In order to start trading from your mobile device, download MetaTrader 5 from the application
store Google Play or by using the Google Play application on your device.
After installation, run the application by tapping the icon on the screen.
2.1 Make Demo Account

Open your MT5 app, and "Open Demo Account" will appear.
Choose Open Demo Account, search using keyword "FxView", and choose FXView-Demo from the server
list.
※If you already have a live account, you can log in from Log In to existing account. Choose FXView-Live
from the server list
You can modify each of the settings below to suit your preferences. There are Account type, Leverage,
and Deposits.
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2.2 Log in to live account
Log in to either your live account or demo account by choosing Account on your Settings screen.
Next, choose the server when you want to log in, and tap Log in to existing account on your New Account
screen.
For those who already have an account with us, you can log in by choosing Log in to existing account which
will appear once you run your MT5 apps. Please choose FXView-Live as your trading server
Put in your log in credentials (ID and Password), and tap on Login
3. Application GUI
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The interface of the MetaTrader 5 mobile platform consists of the main working area, the bottom panel
and the side panel, which allow switching between the main functions of the program.
• Quotes – a window with prices of financial instruments.
• Charts – view price charts.
• Trade – view the state of account and manage trade positions and pending orders.
• History – view the history of trade operations.
• Mailbox – view emails received via the internal mail system.
• News – view news messages.
• Messages – view messages and push-notifications.
• Settings – mobile platform settings.
• Journal – view the logs of MetaTrader 5 for Android.
• About – view information about the program.
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3.1 Quotes
Use this tab to view real-time pricing information on financial instruments. To switch to this tab, use the
MetaTrader 5 side panel that opens at a tap on .
The following price information is displayed here:
• the name of the financial instrument
• the ask price
• the bid price
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• spread
• the time of the last quote
• the lowest price for the current day (Low)
• the highest price for the current day (High)
For the High and Low of symbols whose charts are built at Bid prices, the Bid High and Bid Low prices are
displayed. If a symbol chart is constructed using Last prices, Last High and Last Low prices are shown for
this symbol.
To switch between the full and reduced representation of price information, open the context menu by a
long tap on any symbol.
3.2 List of symbols

In order to remove a symbol from the list or change its position, tap at the top of the window. To
add a new symbol, tap at the top of the window.
To save traffic, disable unnecessary symbols.
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3.3 Adding Symbols
To add a new symbol, tap at the top of the window. Select a group of symbols. To quickly find the
desired symbol, use the search bar at the top of the page. Press , enter the desired symbol and tap
"Enter" on your keyboard. To add a symbol, tap on its line.
To hide symbols, tap at the top of the window. Then check all the symbols that you want to delete, and
once again tap .
A financial instrument cannot be hidden, if there are open positions or pending orders for it.
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3.4 Moving Symbols
To change the order of symbols in the "Quotes" tab, use buttons . Tap the button on the desired
symbol, and holding it, drag the symbol to the desired position.
3.5 Symbol Properties
Symbol trading terms are shown in this window. You can go to this window using the "Properties"
command in the context menu of the "Quotes" tab.
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The window displays the following set of parameters set by a broker:
• Symbol name and description – name of a symbol and its short description. Tap to read
additional symbol information on a website.
• Spread – spread in points. If the spread is floating, then the appropriate record is specified in this
point (floating).
• Digits – number of decimal places in the price of the symbol.
• Stops level – channel of prices (in points) from the current price, inside which one can't place Stop
Loss, Take Profit and pending orders. When placing an order inside the channel, the server will return
message "Invalid Stops" and will not accept the order.
• Contract size – number of units of the commodity, currency or financial asset in one lot.
• Margin currency – currency, in which the margin requirements are calculated.
• Profit currency – currency, in which the profit of the symbol trading is calculated;
• Calculation – method of profit and margin calculation (Forex, Futures, Exchange Futures, Exchange
Stocks, FORTS Futures);
• Initial margin – security deposit (margin) provided for a fixed-term contract to perform a one-lot
deal. If the initial margin value is specified for the symbol, this is the value that is used. Margin
calculation equations are not applied to the appropriate calculation type.
• Maintenance margin – minimum security deposit (margin) a trader should have on his or her
account to maintain a one-lot position;
• Hedged margin – the margin charged per one lot of hedged positions. Margin calculation mode using
the larger leg for hedged positions can also be specified here.
• Margin rate – margin rates for various order types are specified in this table. The rates are set for the
initial and maintenance margin individually. If no ratio is set for the maintenance margin (set to zero),
the initial margin ratio will be used for it.
• Market Buy Order – a multiplier for calculating margin requirements for long positions relative to
the basic margin amount;
• Market Sell Order – a multiplier for calculating margin requirements for short positions relative to
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• Buy limit – multiplier for calculating margin requirements for Buy Limit orders relative to the main
amount of margin;
• Sell limit – a multiplier for calculating margin requirements for Sell Limit orders relative to the basic
margin amount;
• Buy stop – a multiplier for calculating margin requirements for Buy Stop orders relative to the basic
margin amount;
• Sell stop – a multiplier for calculating margin requirements for Sell Stop orders relative to the basic
margin amount;
• Buy stop limit – multiplier for calculating margin requirements for Buy Stop Limit orders relative to
the main amount of margin.
• Sell stop limit – a multiplier for calculating margin requirements for Sell Stop Limit orders relative to
the basic margin amount.
• Trade – symbol trading mode (full access, long only, short only, close only). Also, trading can be
completely prohibited.
• Execution – execution mode: Instant, Request, Market, Exchange.
• Type of orders – types of orders placed:
• Good till today including SL/TP – orders that are valid only during one trading day. With the end of
the day, all Stop Loss and Take Profit levels are deleted, as well as pending orders are removed;
• Good till canceled – pending orders are preserved for the next trading day.
• Good till today excluding SL/TP – when a trade day changes, only pending orders are deleted, Stop
Loss and Take Profit levels are preserved.
• Fill policy– available order fill policy type: Fill or Kill, Immediate or Cancel, Return.
• Expiration – available types of expiration of pending orders:
• Good till Canceled – order lifetime is unlimited;
• Intraday – orders are canceled at the end of the current trading;
• Specified time – the order is canceled in a user-specified time;
• Date – the order is canceled at the end of the day specified by the user.
• Orders– allowed order types: market, limit, stop, stop-limit, Stop Loss and Take Profit.
• Minimal volume – minimal volume of a deal for the symbol.
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• Maximal volume – maximal volume of a deal for the symbol;
• Volume step – step of volume changes;
• Volume limit – maximum allowed cumulative volume of an open position and pending orders by a
symbol in one direction (buy or sell). For example, if the limit is set to 5 lots, a user can have an open
buy position of 5 lots and place a Sell Limit order of 5 lots. But, the user cannot place a Buy Limit
(because the cumulative volume in one direction will exceed the limit) or place a Sell Limit of more than
5 lots.
• Swap type – type of swap calculation:
• In points – the specified number of points of the security price.
• In the base currency – the specified amount in the symbol base currency;
• In the margin currency – the specified amount in the symbol margin currency;
• In the deposit currency – the specified amount in the deposit currency.
• As a percentage of current price – the specified percentage of the symbol price at the time of swap
calculation;
• As a percentage of the open price – the specified percentage of the position open price;
• In points, re-open at Close price – at the end of the trading day the position is closed. The next day
the position is re-opened at the close price +/- the specified number of points;
• In points, re-open at the Bid price – the position is closed at the end of the trading day. The next day
the position is re-opened at the Bid price +/- the specified number of points.
• Swap long – swap for Buy positions.
• Swap short – swap for Sell positions.
• 3-days swap – day of the week when a triple swap is charged.
• Margin rate – margin rates for various order types are specified in this table. The rates are set for the
initial and maintenance margin individually. If no ratio is set for the maintenance margin (set to zero),
the initial margin ratio will be used for it.
• Market Buy Order – multiplier for calculating margin requirements for long positions relative to the
main amount of margin;
• Market Sell Order – a multiplier for calculating margin requirements for short positions relative to
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• Buy limit – multiplier for calculating margin requirements for Buy Limit orders relative to the main
amount of margin;
• Sell limit – a multiplier for calculating margin requirements for Sell Limit orders relative to the basic
margin amount;
• Buy stop – a multiplier for calculating margin requirements for Buy Stop orders relative to the basic
margin amount;
• Sell stop – a multiplier for calculating margin requirements for Sell Stop orders relative to the basic
margin amount;
• Buy stop limit – multiplier for calculating margin requirements for Buy Stop Limit orders relative to
the main amount of margin.
• Sell stop limit – a multiplier for calculating margin requirements for Sell Stop Limit orders relative to
the basic margin amount.
• First trade – the day when the financial instrument trading started;
• Last trade – the day when the financial instrument trading ended;
• Face value – nominal bond value set by the issuer;
• Accrued interest – part of the coupon interest of bonds, which is calculated in proportion to the
number of days since the coupon bond issue date or since the previous coupon payment.
• Category – the property is used for additional marking of financial instruments. For example, this can
be the market sector to which the symbol belongs: Agriculture, Oil & Gas and others.
• Exchange – the name of the exchange in which the security is traded.
• CFI – instrument classification in accordance with the ISO 10962 standard.
• Option type – call or put.
• Underlying – the underlying symbol of the option.
• Strike price – option strike price.
• The lower part shows information about quoting and trading sessions of the symbol.
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3.6 Statistics
To view additional price data, select the financial instrument in the Quotes section and tap Statistics.
The following information is available:
• Bid – bid price;
• B. High – Bid High, the highest bid price for the current day;
• B. Low – Bid Low, the lowest bid price for the current day;
• Ask – ask price;
• A. High – Ask High, the highest ask price for the current day;
• A. Low – Ask Low, the lowest ask price for the current day;
• Last – the last price at which a deal was executed;
• L. High – Last High, the highest price at which a deal was executed for during the current day;
• L. Low – Last Low, the lowest price at which a deal was executed for during the current day;
• Volume – the volume of the last executed deal;
• V. High – Volume High, the highest deal volume for the current day;
• V. Low – Volume Low, the lowest deal volume for the current day;
• Deals – the total number of deals executed during the current session;
• Deals Volume – the total volume of deals executed during the current session;
• Turnover – money turnover for a symbol for the current session;
• Open Interest – the total volume of effective contracts (futures, options) which have been
settled yet;
• Buy Orders – the total number of buy requests;
• Buy volume – the total volume of buy orders;
• Sell Orders – the total number of sell requests;
• Sell Volume – the total volume of sell orders;
• Open Price – the open price of the last (recent) session;
• Close Price – the close price of the last (recent) session;
• Average Weighted Price – the weighted average price for a session;
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• Settlement Price – the settlement (clearing) price of the previous session;
• Price Change – price change in percentage terms; Indicates the difference between the price
of a last deal (Last) and the close price of the last session in percentage terms: ((Last - Settlement
Price)/Settlement Price)*100.
• Delta – option delta. The Greeks, which include Delta, Theta, Gamma, Vega, Po and Omega,
are quantities representing the sensitivity of the option price to changes in various parameters: strike
prices, volatility, etc.
• Theta – option theta.
• Gamma – option gamma.
• Vega – option vega.
• Rho – option rho.
• Omega – option omega.
• Sensitivity – option sensitivity. It shows by how many points the price of the option's
underlying asset should change so that the price of the option changes by one point.
3.7 Context menu
To open the context menu, tap once on any of the symbols. The menu contains the following
commands:
• New order – go to executing trade operations with the specified symbol. This button is not
displayed when not connected to the server.
• Chart – go to chart viewing.
• Properties – open symbol properties.
• Advanced view mode – view price details.
• Depth of Market – open Depth of Market for the symbol, if available.
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4. Depth of Market
The Depth of Market (DOM) displays bids and asks for a particular instrument at the best prices (closest
to the market) at the moment. The DOM window also shows the volume of each order.
The Dept of Market is different on the exchange and over-the-counter markets:
• If an instrument is traded in the exchange mode, in which related trading operations are sent
to an external trading system (an exchange), the DOM features real prices and order volumes from
market participants.
• If an instrument is traded in the over-the-counter (OTC) market, the Depth of Market can be
formed based on the quotes of the broker, who may provide different prices depending on the buy or
sell volume. If the broker does not provide volumes, the DOM window functions as a scalping tool,
which allows placing of market and pending orders with a single click. In this case, the Depth of Market
displays price levels calculated based on the Bid and Ask prices using the price change step.
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To open the Depth of Market window of a financial instrument, click "Depth of Market" in its context menu
in "Quotes".
4.1 Market Operations
A market operation is buying/selling a financial instrument at the best price currently offered on the
market. Market operations can be performed via the Depth of Market using Buy and Sell buttons below.
From the Market Depth – execute the appropriate trading command in the Market Depth of the
required symbol while specifying the required volume. This request to execute a trade operation will be
immediately sent to the server without specifying any extra conditions.
The volume must be specified before performing an operation.
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After clicking Buy or Sell, an appropriate request to execute a trade operation will be immediately sent to
the server without specifying any extra conditions.
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4.2 An example of a market operation
Below is an example of a market operation: buying 50 lots of EURRUB_TOD.
Sending the Request
Let's specify the volume of 50 lots and click Buy:
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5. Executing the Request
The above screenshot shows that only 1 lot at the best price of 75.6820 were available at the moment
of execution. Fill or Kill execution mode is used by default when sending market requests from the
Depth of Market. It means that the request should be performed in the specified volume. If the
specified volume is not available in the market, the request will not be executed.
The necessary volume is available in the market but at a higher price. The requested volume will be
reached using the best price offers. You can view the history of order execution in the History tab.
The above screenshot shows that the order was executed by two deals: 1 lot at 75.6820 and 49 lots at
75.6300.
When executing market deals you agree in advance to buy/sell a symbol at the current market price in a
specified volume. Therefore, one order can be executed by several deals at the best market price.
Pending orders should be used to execute trade operations at a specified price.
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5.1 Closing Positions
The Depth of Market allows you to view open positions by their symbol, as well as close them quickly if
necessary. Position status is shown at the upper section of the Depth of Market.
To close a position, tap Close at the bottom part of the Depth of Market. Click on it to close your
position without any further confirmations.
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5.2 Closing Positions in Hedging Mode
If an account uses the hedging mode, a user can have multiple open positions of the same instrument.
The current selected position, which will be closed by a tap on "Close", is shown at the top of the
Market Depth. Tap on the position if you want to choose another one.
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5.3 Trader Requests
Placing a trader request means creating a pending order to buy/sell a financial instrument at a specified
price. 4 types of pending orders: Buy Limit, Sell Limit, Buy Stop and Sell Stop can be placed from the
Depth of Market. The conventional way of performing trade operations should be used to place Buy
Stop Limit and Sell Stop Limit orders.
6. Placing an Order
To place a pending order, click on the bid/ask volume cell having a required price:
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After you tap on the appropriate field, a request for placing a pending order will be immediately sent to the
server. The order will be displayed in the Depth of Market upon successful placement. As soon as there is a
market participant ready to sell the financial instrument at the specified price, the order will be filled and
will turn into a position.
6.1 Transferring Orders to an External Trading System

Pending orders may or may not be transferred to an external trading system depending on broker's
symbol settings. For example, a broker may transfer Limit orders directly to an external trading system
while other order types (Stop and Stop Limit ones) will be processed in MetaTrader 5:
• When reaching the stop price specified in a Buy Stop or Sell Stop order, an
appropriate market operation is executed.
• When reaching the stop price specified in a Buy Stop Limit or Sell Stop Limit order, an
appropriate limit request is executed, which will be visible to other market participants.
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6.2 Current Position
The upper section contains the data on the current open position, if there is any.
• Symbol name
• Position direction – Buy or Sell
• Profit/loss
Use the "Close" button at the bottom of the Depth of Market to close the current position.
Lots/Amount button allows you to switch quotes volume display mode in the Depth of Market.
6.3 List of Requests

The main part of DOM is occupied by the list of trade requests which are closest to the market. The
upper part (colored in red) displays bids, while the lower part (colored in blue) displays asks. List of
requests is divided into three columns:
• Volume – total volume of requests at a specified price;
• Price – request price;
• Trading – this column displays trader's current trade requests and stop levels (Stop Loss and Take
Profit). For example:
• BL 10 – Buy Limit order of 10 lots;
• SL 5 – Sell Limit order of 5 lots;
• BS 1 – Buy Stop order of 1 lot;
• SS 3 – Sell Stop order of 3 lots;
• sl 1 – Stop Loss of a position of 1 lot;
• tp 2 – Take Profit of a position of 1 lot.
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6.4 Trading Commands
Traders can send market and limit (Buy Limit and Sell Limit) orders.
6.5 Pending Orders

Buttons for placing pending orders are located at the right side of the Trading column. The order is
placed at the price with a pressed button.
• – when you tap on this button in the area of Bid prices, a Buy Limit order is placed at the
specified price. When you do the same in the area of Ask prices, a Buy Stop order is placed;
• – if this button is pressed in the Ask prices area, a Sell Limit order at a specified price will be
placed; in case it is pressed in the Bid prices area, a Sell Stop order will be placed.
6.6 Trade Settings
The lower part of DOM contains trade operation settings:

• sl – Stop Loss level is set for placed limit orders. This parameter is specified in points from the
current price;
• vol – the volume of created market and limit orders in lots;
• tp – Take Profit level is set for placed limit orders. This parameter is specified in points from the
current price.
6.7 Market Orders
Market order commands are located below:
• Sell – make a Sell deal in the size specified in "vol" field at the best available price.
• Close – this button is enabled only if there is an open position for a selected financial instrument. It
allows you to close the entire position at the best available price.
• Buy – make a Buy deal in the size specified in "vol" field at the best available price.
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7. Chart
A chart shows price changes over time. To switch to this tab, use the side or the bottom panel of the
MetaTrader 5.
7.1 Chart Opening
In order to open a chart of a financial instrument, run the "Chart" menu command in the "Quotes" tab.
7.2 Chart period
In the MetaTrader 5 for Android, you can view 9 chart timeframes: from 1 minute (M1) to a month one
(MN). Use the radial menu in order to switch between the timeframes.
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7.3 Trade
To start trading the financial instrument of the current chart, tap on the upper panel.
There is a limit to the depth of price data that can be displayed in the mobile version of the MetaTrader 5 for
Android. The depth of the data depends on the device performance, but it cannot exceed 1500 bars. As soon
as the limit has been reached, the "Maximum bars limit" notice appears at the bottom of the chart.
7.4 Chart Management

A user can perform the following manipulations on charts:
• Scrolling – to scroll through a chart, drag your finger left or right.
• Scaling – to zoom in, place two fingers together on the area of the chart you want to zoom in and
then drag your fingers apart. To zoom out, place two fingers on different parts of the screen and drag
them towards each other.
• Full-screen mode – the full-screen mode is automatically enabled when you rotate your device to the
landscape mode. Further you can switch between the full screen and normal mode by tapping on the
chart.
• Symbol – to view a chart of another symbol, tap .
• Change the chart type – there are three chart types available. If you want to switch between the
chart types, open chart settings from the radial. Select the desired presentation type from the "Line
type" option:
• Bar chart – show the chart as a sequence of bars.
• Candlestick – show the chart as a sequence of Japanese candlesticks.
• Line chart – show the chart as a broken line that connects close prices of bars.
• Indicators – to start working with indicators on a chart, tap button on the top panel or in
the radial menu.
• Setting – in order to access chart settings, open the radial menu and tap .
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• Tile charts – you can open multiple charts in the mobile platform: up to 4 charts on Android-
smartphones, and up to 6 charts on tablets. If you want to customize the arrangement of charts,
tap on the top panel.
7.5 Radial Menu
The radial menu is opened by a tap on the chart. Using the menu you can:
• Change the timeframe
• Attach indicators to a chart
• Apply objects to a chart
• Enable crosshairs
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• Open chart settings
Each chart is provided with a separate radial menu, which allows accessing the settings of the chart.
7.6 Crosshair
"Crosshair" mode allows viewing an exact date, price and indicator values at any point of a chart. To
turn on the mode, tap on in the top panel of the chart or in the radial menu. Move the crosshair
over any point of the chart, the date and price of the point will be appear on the appropriate chart
scale.
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7.7 Ruler
In the Crosshair mode you can measure the distance from one point on a chart to another. To do this,
set the crosshairs by one finger at the first point, hold it and swiping the screen with another finger to
the second point.
The crosshair caption contains two values: the distance along the horizontal axis in bars and the
distance along the vertical axis in price terms or indicator values.
7.8 Data Window
Data Window allows viewing spread values (highest spread for the selected bar) and
the indicator values. The Data Window can be enabled in MetaTrader 5 for Android settings. After that
switch to the Crosshair mode and move it to the desired point.
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7.9 Resizing a subwindow and shifting from the chart edge
If you want to resize an indicator sub window, long tap (about 1 second) anywhere on the chart. Specify
the desired sub window size by dragging its upper border.
In the same mode, you can change the shift of the price chart from the right edge of the window by
dragging the dotted line.
In order to close a chart tap next to it.
Tap anywhere on the chart to exit the edit mode.
7.10 Chart settings

To go to the chart settings, open the radial menu and tap .
• Chart view – select representation of charts:
• Bar chart – show the chart as a sequence of bars.
• Candlestick – show the chart as a sequence of Japanese candlesticks.
• Line chart – show the chart as a broken line that connects close prices of bars.
• OHLC – when this option is enabled, current Open, High, Low and Close prices are displayed
at the top of the chart. Therefore, the exact value of the last bar can always be seen.
• Show data window – when this option is enabled in the "Crosshair" mode, the data
window will additionally be displayed on a chart. The Data Window displays the values of all active
indicators in a specified point of a chart.
• Show volumes – volume display options:
• Don't show volumes
• Show tick volumes
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• Show real volumes
• Show trade levels – when this option is enabled, all current positions and pending orders of
a symbol are shown on the symbol chart. Trade operations are displayed as lines with signatures at the
level of the price, at which they were executed.
• Independent charts – if this option is enabled, analytical objects are only created on the
current symbol chart and on selected timeframes. When you switch to other symbols/timeframes, the
objects will be hidden.
• Show period separators – date and time of each bar are displayed on the horizontal axis of
the chart. And this horizontal scale interval is the selected timeframe. The "Show period separators"
option draws additional vertical lines corresponding to the larger period (timeframe) borders. Daily
separators are drawn for M1 to H1 charts, weekly separators are shown for H4, monthly appear for D1
and year separators are used for W1 and MN1 charts.
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• Ask price line – show/hide the Ask price level of the latest quote. Bars in the platform are
formed based on Bid prices (or Last prices if the depth of market is available for the instrument).
However, at opening of long positions and closing of the short ones, the Ask price is always used. The
Ask price is not displayed on the chart, so it cannot be seen. To have a more precise control over
trading, enable the "Ask price line" parameter. An additional horizontal line corresponding to the Ask
price of the latest quote appears on the chart.
• Colors – select the color display of the chart and its various elements:
• Scheme – select a pre-defined color scheme of the chart. Two color schemes options are
available: "Green on Black" and "Black on White".
• Foreground – color of the axes, scale and OHLC line;
• Grid – grid color;
• Volumes – the color of volumes and position opening levels;
• Bar up – color of an up bar, its shadow and border of a bullish candlestick's body;
• Bar down – color of down bar, its shadow and border of bearish candlestick's body;
• Bull candle – color of bullish candlestick's body;
• Bear candle – color of bearish candlestick's body;
• Line chart – color of the chart line and Doji candlesticks;
• Bid price line – color of the Bid price line;
• Ask price line – color of the Ask price line;
• Stop levels – the color of the levels of stop orders (Stop Loss and Take Profit).
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8. How to Trade
The basis of the profit while working in the financial markets is a simple rule: buy cheap and sell dear.
One of the main functions of the MetaTrader 5 mobile platform for Android is providing a user with
wide opportunities to perform buy and sell operations.
The "Trade" tab features the current state of a trade account, as well as current positions and pending
orders. To switch to this tab, use the application side panel that opens at a tap on .
To go to placing of a new order, tap on on the top panel.
8.1 Account state
The current state of a trade account is shown at the top of the tab:
• Profit, currency – the total returns of the current trade positions and the account deposit
currency.
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• Balance – money on the account, not accounting for the results of currently open positions
(deposit);
• Credit – amount of funds provided to a trader by a broker as a loan;
• Assets – the current value of purchased financial instruments (of long positions) defined in
trader's deposit currency. The value is determined dynamically based on the price of the latest symbol
deal taking into account the liquidity margin rate. In fact, the amount of assets is equivalent to the
amount of money that the trader would receive in case of immediate closure of long positions. This rate
is used on exchange markets.
• Liabilities – obligations on current short positions calculated as the value of these positions
at the current market price. In fact, the amount of liabilities is equivalent to the amount of money that
the trader would pay in case of immediate closure of short positions.
• Commission – commission by orders and positions accumulated during a day/month.

Depending on conditions of collection of commission (determined by broker), a preliminary calculation
of commission is performed during a day or a month. The corresponding amount of assets is blocked on
the account and its value is shown in this field. Final commission calculation is performed at the end of a
day/month, and the appropriate sum is withdrawn from the account by the balance operation (it is
displayed as a separate deal on the History tab), while the blocked amount is unlocked. In case
commission is charged immediately during a deal, its value is shown in the "Commission" field on the
history tab.
• Blocked – under certain trading conditions (determined by a broker), a profit fixed during a
day cannot be used to perform trade operations (not included in the free margin). This blocked profit is
displayed in the "Blocked" field. At the end of the trading day, this profit is unblocked and deposited to
the account balance.
• Equity – equity is calculated as Balance + Credit - Commission +/- Floating profit/loss -

Blocked;
• Margin – money required to cover open positions and pending orders;
• Free Margin – the free amount of money that can be used to open positions. It is calculated
as Equity - Margin. Depending on the trading conditions (defined by a broker), the equity value may or
may not consider: floating profit, floating loss or floating profit and floating loss together;
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• Margin Level – percentage of the account equity to the margin volume (Equity / Margin *
100);
• Total of deals – total financial result of all open positions.
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8.2 Trading Commands
To quickly modify or close a position or order, swipe on its row from right to left. This will open a menu
of commands:
The following commands are available here:
• – close position/delete order.
• – modify position/modify order.
• – increase position/place an order at the same symbol.
• – open a chart of the symbol the open position or placed order.
• – open the Market Depth of the symbol the open position or placed order.
8.3 Sorting positions and orders

To sort open positions and pending orders, tap on the top panel.
Trading operations can be sorted by symbol, ticket, time, and profit. For a reverse sorting by the
selected parameter, tap on it again.
Sorting to positions and orders is applied separately.
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8.4 Positions
Current open positions are shown in this part. By default, only brief information about positions is
shown here. To see more details, tap once on the position line.
1. Symbol – a financial instrument of the open position;
2. Type – position type: "Buy" – long, "Sell" – short;
3. Volume – volume of a trade operation (in lots or units). The minimal volume and its change
step are limited by a brokerage company, the maximal one – by the deposit size.
4. Price – the price of a deal, as a result of which the position was opened. If the opened
position is a result of execution of several deals, then this field displays their weighted average price:
(price of deal 1 * volume of deal 1 + ... + price of deal N * volume of deal N) / (volume of deal 1 + ... +
volume of deal N). The accuracy of rounding of the the weighted average price is equal to the number of
decimal places in the symbol price plus three additional characters.
5. Price – the current price of the financial symbol.
6. Profit – the financial result of the deal execution, taking into account the current price. A
positive result indicates the profitability of the deal, negative indicates loss.
7. Time – time when the position was opened. The record is represented as YYYY.MM.DD
HH:MM (year.month.day hour:minute).
8. Comment – a comment to a position. A comment can be added only when placing an

order from the PC version of the MetaTrader 5 platform. The comment cannot be changed when
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modifying an order. In addition, a comment on a trade operation can be added by a brokerage
company.
9. S/L – the Stop Loss level of the current position. If the order has not been placed, a zero
value is displayed;
10. T/P – the Take Profit level of the current position. If the order has not been placed, a zero
value is displayed;
11. Swap – amount of swaps charged.
12. Commission – commission charged by a brokerage company for the execution of the trade
operation.
8.5 Orders
Pending orders placed are shown in this part. By default, only brief information about orders is shown here.
To see more details, tap once on the order line.
1. Symbol – the financial instrument of the pending order.
2. Type – type of the pending order: "Sell Stop", "Sell Limit", "Buy Stop", "Buy Limit", "Buy Stop Limit"
or "Sell Stop Limit";
3. Volume – volume requested in the pending order, and volume covered by the deal (in lots or units).
4. Price – price reaching which the pending order will trigger;
5. State – the current status of the pending order: "Started", "Placed" etc.
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6. Time – pending order placing time. The record is represented as YYYY.MM.DD HH:MM
(year.month.day hour:minute).
7. Comment – a comment to the order. A comment can be added only when placing an order from the
PC version of the MetaTrader 5 platform. The comment cannot be changed when modifying an order. In
addition, a comment on a trade operation can be added by a brokerage company.
8. S/L – level of the placed Stop Loss order. If the order has not been placed, a zero value is displayed;
9. T/P – level of the set Take Profit order. If the order has not been placed, a zero value is displayed.
10. Price – the current price of the financial symbol.
11. # – ticket number (a unique identifier) of the pending order.
8.6 Context Menu

The context menu can be called for a position or an order only when viewing detailed information. To
expand information about a position or an order, tap once on its line. To display a context menu, tap
and hold on the line for a second.
8.7 Position Context Menu

• Close position – go to position closing.
• New order – open the trade tab. In this case, the symbol and volume of the trade operation
are automatically set in accordance with the position, on which the context menu is called.
• Modify position – modify the Stop Loss and Take Profit levels of a position.
8.8 Order Context Menu
• Modify order – open the window of order modification.
• Delete order – go to order canceling.
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9. The Menu button
The Menu button on your device calls a menu with additional commands:
• New order – go to placing a new order.
• Symbols – configure the lists of symbols shown on the "Quotes" TAB.
• Accounts – manage trade accounts.
• Messages – view push notifications.
• Settings – go to the settings of the MetaTrader 5 for Android.
• About – view information about the program.
10. History
On this tab you can view the history of trade operations performed on a trading account. To switch to
this tab, use the application side panel that opens at a tap on .
There are three operation viewing modes, including Orders, Deals, and Positions. You can switch
between them at the top of the tab.
10.1 Orders
The following summary information is displayed in the upper part: the number of filled and
canceled orders and the total number of orders.
By default, only brief information about orders is shown here. To see more details, tap once on the
order line.
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1. Symbol – a financial instrument of the order.
2. Type – type of the order: "Buy", "Sell", "Sell Stop", "Sell Limit", "Buy Stop", "Buy Limit", "Buy Stop
Limit" or "Sell Stop Limit".
3. Time – the time when the order was placed by the trader. The record is represented as
YYYY.MM.DD HH:MM (year.month.day hour:minute).
4. Volume – volume requested in the order (in lots or units). The minimal volume and its change
step are limited by a brokerage company, the maximal one – by the deposit size.
5. Price – price specified in the order at which the trade operation should be executed;
6. State – result of the order placing: "Filled", "Partially", "Canceled" etc.
7. Execution time – order execution time. The record is represented as YYYY.MM.DD HH:MM
(year.month.day hour:minute).
8. Comment – a comment to the order. A comment can be added only when placing an order from
the PC version of the MetaTrader 5 platform. The comment cannot be changed when modifying an
order. In addition, a comment on a trade operation can be added by a brokerage company. If the order
was executed after the triggering of Stop Loss or Take Profit, the following comment is automatically
added to it: [sl price] or [tp price].
9. Order – ticket number (a unique identifier) of a trade operation.
10. S/L – level of the placed Stop Loss order. If a trade position has been closed by Stop Loss, the
order is colored in red. If the order has not been placed, a zero value is displayed.
11. T/P – level of the set Take Profit order. If a trade position has been closed by Take Profit, the
order is colored in green. If the order has not been placed, a zero value is displayed.
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10.2 Deals
The results of deal execution over the selected period appear at the bottom part:
• Deposit – the amount of deposits/withdrawals.

• Profit – the amount of profit/loss of deals for the selected period.
• Swap – the amount of added/charged swaps.
• Commission – the amount of commissions taken for execution of deals.
• Balance – the total balance on operation executed for the selected period.
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By default, only brief information about deals is shown here. To see more details, tap once on the deal
line.
1. Symbol – a financial instrument of the deal.
2. Type – type of a trade operation: "Buy" – a buy deal, "Sell" – a sell deal, "Balance" – a balance
operation.
3. Direction – direction of the deal relative to the current position on a particular symbol: "in", "out" or
"in/out".
4. Time – time of the deal. The record is represented as YYYY.MM.DD HH:MM (year.month.day
hour:minute).
5. Volume – volume of an executed deal (in lots or units).
6. Price – the deal was executed at;
7. Profit – the financial result of position exiting. For entry deals, zero profit is shown.
8. Comment – a comment to the deal. A comment can be added only when placing an order from the
PC version of the MetaTrader 5 platform. The comment cannot be changed when modifying an order. In
addition, a comment on a trade operation can be added by a brokerage company. If the deal was
executed after the triggering of Stop Loss or Take Profit, the following comment is automatically added
to it: [sl price] or [tp price].
9. Deal – ticket number (a unique identifier) of a deal.
10. Order – ticket number (a unique identifier) the trade was executed on. Several deals can correspond
to one order, if the required volume specified in the order was not covered by one market offer.
11. Swap – the size of the swap.
12. Commission – commission charged for the deal execution.
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13. Fee – separate fee charged by the broker in addition to commission.
If a deal was executed as a result of triggering of Stop Loss, it is colored in red. If Take Profit triggered, the
deal is colored in green.
10.3 Positions
The platform collects data on deals related to a position (position opening, additional volume, partial
and full closure), and then combines the data into one record providing the following details:
• Position opening and closing time determined by the first and last trade respectively
• Position volume. If part of the position was closed, the record contains the closed volume and the
initial volume
• The weighted average open and close prices of the position
• The total financial result of deals related to the position
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10.4 Customize the History Appearance
You can configure the depth of the history of deals. To go to settings,
Tap and choose the period of trade operations that will be shown in the history. You can specify
either one of the predefined periods, or set your own one (tap "Select period"). In the second case, you
will need to enter the beginning and end of the period.
To sort trading operations, tap on the top panel.
Trading operations can be sorted by symbol, ticket, profit, as well as open and close times. For a reverse
sorting by the selected parameter, tap on it again.
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11. Mail
The section allows you to work with the internal MetaTrader 5 mail system. All mails sent by FXview are
displayed here. Also, you can send a mail to us if you have any question.
The mail's subject, sender's name and a date are displayed in the list. To view an email, tap on it.
11.1 Writing a Mail

To create a new mail, tap button in the upper right corner of the screen. To reply an incoming mail,
enter it and tap .
Select one of the available administrators in the 'To' field. Enter the mail's subject to Subject field. The
text of a mail is entered below. To send an email, tap button in the upper right corner of the
screen.
You can attach image files and application logs to your email. Tap and choose an attachment option:
• Camera – open a camera to take a picture of the document. Before sending, you can view the
image or take a new photo if necessary.
• File – upload an image from the smartphone memory. Only the images that you select will be
used.
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11.2 Deleting Mails
To delete emails, tap at the top of the window. Then tick off all the messages you want to delete
and once again tap . To select all emails, tap .
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12. News Event
In this section, you can work with newsletters received in the mobile platform.
The list displays news headers, categories (for example, MQL5 Articles English), as well as arrival time.
Tap the news header
The headers of unread news in the list are displayed in bold
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12.1 News Categories
Various financial newsletters can be delivered to the platform. For convenience, they are divided into
categories according to the source and subject.
You may choose to only receive separate newsletters by setting up categories through at the top
of the window. Next, select the topics that interest you.
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12.2 Favorite News
If you like a newsletter, you can easily get back to it whenever you need this. You can marks such a
newsletter as Favorite.
All favorite newsletters are added to a separate category.
In order to see previously marked newsletters, enable the "Favorite News" category, and turn off all
other categories.
Favorite newsletters are marked with a yellow stripe in the news list.
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12.3 Deleting news
To delete news, tap at the top of the window. Then tick off all the messages you want to delete and
once again tap . To select all the news items, tap .
13. Messages
MetaTrader 5 for Android supports push notifications. Push notifications are short text messages that
can be sent to your device from the PC version of the trading platform, and from various services of
the MQL5.community.
Push notifications are very important. It allows traders to keep abreast of the latest updates. An Expert
Advisor running in a desktop trading platform can notify a trader about the emergence of a new signal.
The trader receives the signal to the mobile device and can perform a trading operation through the
MetaTrader 5 for Android.
Push notifications are received by the device, regardless of whether the application is running
MetaTrader 5 or not. All that is needed is the mobile Internet.
During installation of MetaTrader 5 for Android, a unique identifier called MetaQuotes ID is assigned to
each user. This identifier is used like a phone number. Knowing it, various applications can send
messages to the use.
In addition, you can communicate with your MQL5.community friends and colleagues straight from the
MetaTrader 5 for Android. Any communication is displayed as a chat similar to those used in popular
messaging apps.
Open the Messages section using the side or the bottom menu.
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13.1 Message Categories
All messages, including push notifications from the desktop platform and communication with
MQL5.community users, appear as chats. You can easily distinguish between them by
appropriate avatars.
• Chat – chat with MQL5.community users. An image from the user's profile on
MQL5.community is used for the avatar; also an avatar can be generated automatically based on the
user's initials.
• Broker – a message from your broker.
• Terminal – pushes sent from the desktop platform.
• Community – messages from MQL5.community services: new comments in Freelance, update

of your publication status in Code Base, Market and Signals, announcements of new publications, etc.
• Virtual hosting – virtual hosting notifications: renting and canceling, platform update on the
virtual server, and more.
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• Other – other messages.
To find a message in the history, use the search option – tap on the top panel.
If any of the categories contains unread messages, their number is displayed next to the category title.
To remove all messages from a category, swipe your finger from right to left on it, and then tap on the
"Delete" button.
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13.2 Reading Messages
If a blue circle appears to the right of a chat, the chat has new messages.
In order to read a message, click on the chat in the list.
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13.3 Deleting Messages
To delete a chat, long tap (about a second) on it. Then tap on Delete.
14. Settings
In order to open the settings of the MetaTrader 5 for Android, select the "Settings" item of the side
panel which opens by tapping .
The following settings are available here:
• Advanced mode – switching between the full and short representation of information in
the "Quotes" window. If you enable the extended view, the tab displays additional information about
symbols: spreads, time, the High and Low prices. In the simple view mode only the Bid and Ask prices
are shown.
• Order sounds – enable/disable sound notification of trade operations: opening, modifying, closing
positions, placing orders, etc.
• One Click Trading – the trading platform allows performing trade operations in one click without
additional confirmation by trader (trading dialog is not displayed). The function is available in
the Market Depth. Before you start using it, you should accept special terms and conditions.
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• MetaQuotes ID – your unique identifier for receiving notifications.
• Vibration – configuration of vibration when receiving push notifications: never use vibration,
in silent mode only, always use vibration.
• Notification ringtone – select a sound that will be played when a push notification is
received.
• Language – using this menu, you can switch between 25 languages of the mobile platform
interface without changing your device language settings.
• Enable News – enable/disable delivery of newsletters to the mobile platform.
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15. Journal
In this section you can view logs of the MetaTrader 5 for Android. The journal contains various service
messages, as well as records of actions performed in the application. To switch to this tab, use the
application side panel that opens at a tap on .
The following controls are available here:
• – send application logs to technical support. If you have any problem with the use of the
mobile platform, you can send the application logs and the problem description directly to the
developer's technical support team.
• – refresh the page.
• – select the date of logs you want to view.
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16. About
In this section, you can view information about MetaTrader 5 for Android.
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17. Push notifications
MetaTrader 5 for Android supports push notifications. Push notifications are short text messages
that can be sent to your device from the PC version of the trading platform, and from various
services of the MQL5.community.
Push notifications are very important. It allows traders to keep abreast of the latest updates. An
Expert Advisor running in a desktop trading platform can notify a trader about the emergence of
a new signal. The trader receives the signal to the mobile device and can perform a trading
operation through the MetaTrader 5 for Android.
Push notifications are received by the device, regardless of whether the MetaTrader 5
application is running or not. All that is needed is the mobile Internet.
During installation of MetaTrader 5 for Android, a unique identifier called MetaQuotes ID is

assigned to each user. This identifier is used like a phone number. Knowing it, various
applications can send messages to the user.
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Push messages are displayed in the notification center of your device. The entire history of push
notifications is stored in MetaTrader 5 for Android and can be viewed at any time.
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2.1 Make Demo Account

• Quotes – a window with prices of financial instruments.

• Charts – view price charts.

• History – view the history of trade operations.

• Mailbox – view emails received via the internal mail system.

• News – view news messages.

• Messages – view messages and push-notifications.

• Settings – mobile platform settings.

• Journal – view the logs of MetaTrader 5 for Android.

• About – view information about the program.

MetaTrader 5 side panel that opens at a tap on .

The following price information is displayed here:

• the name of the financial instrument

• the ask price

• the bid price

• the time of the last quote

• the lowest price for the current day (Low)

• the highest price for the current day (High)

3.2 List of symbols

add a new symbol, tap at the top of the window.

To save traffic, disable unnecessary symbols.

once again tap .

3.5 Symbol Properties

command in the context menu of the "Quotes" tab.

• Bid – bid price;

• Ask – ask price;

• Last – the last price at which a deal was executed;

• Volume – the volume of the last executed deal;

• Turnover – money turnover for a symbol for the current session;

• Buy Orders – the total number of buy requests;

• Buy volume – the total volume of buy orders;

• Sell Orders – the total number of sell requests;

• Sell Volume – the total volume of sell orders;

• Open Price – the open price of the last (recent) session;

• Close Price – the close price of the last (recent) session;

• Average Weighted Price – the weighted average price for a session;

• Theta – option theta.

• Gamma – option gamma.

• Vega – option vega.

• Rho – option rho.

• Omega – option omega.

3.7 Context menu

• Chart – go to chart viewing.

• Properties – open symbol properties.

• Advanced view mode – view price details.

• Depth of Market – open Depth of Market for the symbol, if available.

The Dept of Market is different on the exchange and over-the-counter markets:

4.1 Market Operations

The volume must be specified before performing an operation.

Below is an example of a market operation: buying 50 lots of EURRUB_TOD.

Sending the Request

Let's specify the volume of 50 lots and click Buy:

6.1 Transferring Orders to an External Trading System

• Position direction – Buy or Sell

6.3 List of Requests

• Volume – total volume of requests at a specified price;

• Price – request price;

• BL 10 – Buy Limit order of 10 lots;

• SL 5 – Sell Limit order of 5 lots;

• BS 1 – Buy Stop order of 1 lot;

• SS 3 – Sell Stop order of 3 lots;

• sl 1 – Stop Loss of a position of 1 lot;