Saving a Workspace or a Trading System on MetaTrader 4 - Save MT4 Template Forex System
On MT4, you may want to save the your Forex workspace or the the trading system that you are trading with so as to easily load it the next time you sign in.
Also Check : Saving a Template in MetaTrader 4
On the Forex Platform There are Two Ways For Saving
The Work Space - The workspace is the charts that you have opened along with the information on these charts such as the attached trading systems. Saving a work-space will save all this data and you as a trader can use easily load this information any other time in your platform software.
On the workspace button on the MT4 (illustrated below) a trader can save several different work spaces & load them at another time.
The Template - The template in other words is the trading system you are using to trade with. For example you have just placed a set of 4 indicators on your EUR USD chart, but you also trade the GBP USD and you don't want to redo all the work of putting the same indicators on the GBP USD all over again, so what do you do? You save it as a template and then load it on the GBP USD. But how does a trader do this on the Forex Platform MT4.
Template and Work Space on MetaTrader 4 - How to Save MT4 Template Trading System
Saving a Trading System as a Template MetaTrader 4 Platform - How to Save MT4 Template Trading System
From screen-shot below all a trader has to do is to click the buttons below Templates Icon and choose the 'Save Templates' Button Key.
Saving a Template in MT4
Saving a Template in MetaTrader 4 - How to Save MT4 Template Trading System
If as a trader you want to save the above trading strategy on your MT4 platform software, click the templates button as shown above, then select "Save Template" as shown above, then specify the "name" of the forex system and click 'okay'.
To load a template on another forex chart, click the "Load Template Button" as shown above, then select the path of where to load the forex system from. You can even select to download a trading system template, if you have downloaded, or want to select a forex template that is saved from another MT4 of another broker within your computer drive C: / Programs / MT4 / templates / Name of System.
To load a template, there is a shortcut list of saved templates click on any item on the short-cut listed to load it.
Saving a Workspace
To save a work-space (not a template) which is a collection of the open forex charts & all the technical indicators attached to these forex charts on the Forex Software Platform, Click the 'Save Workspace' button shown below.
MetaTrader 4 Platform Workspace - How to Save MT4 Work Space Forex Charts
Load a Workspace in MetaTrader 4
Saving the above Workspace - Click 'Save Profile' , & select the profile with the name 'Euro'
To load this Work-Space anytime, click the short-cut above that's marked 'Euro'
To load the British Pound Work-Space , click the above short-cut that is marked 'British Pound'
When trading currencies you can "load" or "save" a template or workspace and then place it on another forex chart by simply clicking on a single platform button provided as shown above, this makes it is easier to trade with the Forex MT4 Software.
