MT4 Market Watch Window for MT4 Symbols on MetaTrader 4 Software
The market watch window panel on MT4 is used to display an array of Commodity Trading quotes for commodity instruments. To access this display of commodity 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 finding this window popup as displayed below, by pressing this shortcut, you can enable market watch popup panel window without going to "view" menu)
Market Watch Window
Once a trader selects the commodity market watch window, the following window panel will pop-up showing a list of Commodity Trading quotes available for trading.
As a trader you might also want to trade a commodity instrument that is not listed on this list. For example, on the above list only 5 commodity instruments are displayed. To get other symbols that are not listed, you can right click inside market watch window as shown and illustrated below and following popup window will appear.
To show list of other symbols, choose the "Show All" button, this will then display all the available pairs.
To Save Internet Bandwidth, (Especially if you are using mobile trader, or pay per MB inter-net)
To save bandwidth select a list of all the commodity instruments you will be trading, say example, ten pairs, after selecting these, then select and click the "Hide All" button, this will hide all the pairs which you don't need to trade and will save you a great amount of net bandwidth.
Even if you don't want to save band width, you can select the option to "Hide All", this will save computer processor resources and RAM, especially for brokers who provide hundreds of MT4 symbols and financial instruments, there no need to have all these 100 or 200 instruments streaming on your platform after all you need only about 10 pairs or a few financial instruments to trade. You can always "Show All">>> Select a new pair by opening a commodity chart, >>> Then hide all, your newly chosen ones will be added on this minimized list.
Other Market Watch Options
Below is an explanation of each market watch window, Download MetaTrader 4 and click the button keys below to get an illustration of the explanations made below.
Quotes Options - Quotes option can be used to also add or hide MetaTrader 4 symbol. You can download MT4 and click symbols to see how you can add or remove commodity instruments using this option.
Sets - A set of grouped commodities trading instruments
High/Low - Displays the high & 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 Commodities Price Quotes
Popup Commodities Prices - Show commodities prices as a Pop Up Window within the MT4 Commodity Trading Platform.
