Profiles & Saving a Profile in MetaTrader 5
In MT5 platform, you may want to save a MT5 work space that you have opened, especially if you have come to a Trading tutorial site like this one that has shown you how to place indicators & open many charts & put various tools on these charts and you want to continue trading tomorrow from where you left of, then this saving your platform MetaTrader 5 work space guide will show you how to do it.
To save a MT5 work space on MetaTrader 5 platform you will use 'Profiles' button key, which is the 4th option on the 'File' drop-down menu list - this button is shown below:
How to Save MT5 Work Space in MT5
From above profile button, once you click this button key, another sub menu pops up to the right as shown above, to save your current MetaTrader 5 work space as a profile, click the 'Save As' button shown above and name your profile, for examples you can call it "My MT5 Workspace"
Examples of how to save a MetaTrader 5 work space named 'My MT5 Workspace'
Saving MT5 Workspace on MT5
The next time that you will login to the MT5 trade platform & you want to load the saved 'My MT5 Work Space' profile: You'll go to File Menu>>>Then Click Profiles>>>and Then Select 'My MT5 Work Space'. In the above case this profile is already selected as pictured by the check mark/ tick mark. If you wanted to switch to another saved MT5 work space or profile for example the one marked Swiss Franc or EUR in the above example, then you would just click on name of profile that you want and the load it on the MT5 Platform.
The loaded MetaTrader 5 work space "My MetaTrader 5 Workspace" is also displayed at the bottom center of the MT5 platform: (below $100,000 MT5 account balance transaction window, below 'Experts' tab, at the middle bottoms position of MT5 platform as displayed above).
Another short cut to load this 'profiles' is using this button at the bottom-center position of MetaTrader 5 trade platform as portrayed below.
Saving & Loading Profiles in MetaTrader 5
From this guide, now you have learned how to save a MT5 workspace using the profiles button on the MT5 Platform, under the file drop down menu and you can now save as many profiles as you want on yourMT5 softwareand then choose any of these saved profiles any other time that you might require to trade with them.