MT4 Market Watch Window for MT4 Quotes on MetaTrader 4 Software

The market watch window panel on MetaTrader 4 is used to display an array of CFD Trading quotes for cfd instruments. To access this illustrate of cfd instruments on the MT4 a trader should go to view menu as displayed and shown below and select Market Watch Window by Clicking on it. (The Ctrl+M is the short cut for getting this window as displayed below, by pressing this shortcut, you can enable market watch tab window popup instead of going to the 'view' menu)

Market Watch Window

Once a trader chooses the cfd market watch window, the following window will pop-up showing a list of CFD Trading quotes available for trading.

As a trader you may also want to trade a cfd that is not listed on this list. For example, on the above list only 5 instruments are highligthed. To get other symbols which are not listed, you can right click inside this market watch window as illustrated and shown below and the following window will appear.

To show a list of other symbols, choose 'Show All' button, this will then display all available pairs.

To Save Internet Bandwidth, (Especially if you are using mobile trader, or pay per MB inter-net)

To save bandwidth choose a list of all the trading instruments you'll be trading, say example, ten pairs, after choosing these, then tap and click the 'Hide All' button, this will hide all the pairs that you don't need to trade and will save you a great amount of internet bandwidth.

Even if you don't want to save band width, you can choose the option to 'Hide All', this will save PC computer processor resources & RAM, especially for brokers who provide hundreds of MetaTrader 4 quotes and financial instruments, there is no need to have all these 100 or 200 financial instruments streaming on your trading platform after all you need only about 10 streaming quotes or just a few financial instruments to trade. You can always 'Show All'>>> Select a new pair by opening a chart, >>> Then hide all, your newly chosen ones will be added on this minimized list.

Other Market Watch Options

Shown Below is an explanation of each market watch window, Download MetaTrader 4 and click the buttons below to get an illustration of the explanations made below.

Quotes Options - Quotes option can be used to also add or hide MT4 quote. You can download MT4 & click symbols to see how you can add or remove instruments using this option.

Sets - A set of grouped cfds trading instruments

High/Low - Displays the high and low of the day next to the quote

Time - Displays the current time of day next to the quote

Auto Arrange - Automatically arrange according to the chosen order

Grid - Add or Remove Grid on CFD Price Quotes

Popup CFD Prices - Show cfd prices as a Pop Up Window within the MT4 CFD Platform.