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General Trading Questions

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What is Forex?
What is Contract for Difference (CFD) trading?
What are the benefits of trading CFDs?
What are the risks involved in trading CFDs?
What is MT5?
What is Spread?
What does “Leverage” mean?
How does leverage work?
Why is leverage risky?
What is the Initial Margin?
What is a Free Margin?
What is an Investor Password?
What are the different types of orders available in trading?
What is a Market Order?
What is a Pending Order?
What is a “Close at Loss Order” (or Stop Loss Order)?
What is a Margin Call?
How can I avoid a Margin Call?
What is a Short Position?
What is Slippage?
How do you calculate Swaps?
What are Overnight Fees?
What trading terms are essential to understand?
What is the difference between a Spread and a Fee?
What are Overnight Refunds?
How do I calculate my Margin Requirements?
What is a Pip?
How can I practice trading without risking real money?
What is a Trading Signal?
What is Market Report?
How is a profit or loss incurred when trading Forex?
What makes exchange rates move?
What is a Commodity?
What is an Index?
What is Copy Trading?
What is an Expert Advisor (EA)?
What can close my orders automatically?
How is trading volume calculated?
What is Tick History?
How can I clear a browser’s cache and cookies?
How do I calculate the Pip value?
What is a Market Spike?
What is Take Profit?
What is a VPS?
When are Swaps charged at a triple rate?
What is a Margin?
What are your trading hours?

Which trading platforms are available?
How do I trade with MetaTrader 5?
Do you offer trading platforms for Mac?
Do your platforms support Expert Advisors (EAs) or trading robots?
Are there restrictions on the number of EAs and indicators I can run?
What time zone is displayed on the platform?
How do I change the time zone on my trading terminal?
Can I have multiple trading terminals open on a single device at once?
How do trading signals work in MetaTrader?
What is the credit displayed in MetaTrader 5 for?
How do I change the color of the ask line in MetaTrader 5?
How can I speed up MetaTrader 5?
Where can I find technical news content in MetaTrader 5?
When will my trade open?
What is your execution time?
Why do I see a line chart when I change it to candlesticks?
Why do I only see one price on my chart? Is it the Bid or the Ask?
How can I create trend lines or other line studies?
What build or version of MetaTrader 5 do I have?
How to custom MT5?
What should I do if I see the message 'Unable to open position'?
Where can I see the list of the Instruments available to be traded?
Which price should be used for conversions when calculating profit/loss in the account currency?
What happens if I lose connection on my MT5 mobile phone?
Can I add custom indicators to the mobile MT5?
Can I use multiple accounts on MT5 for mobile?
Where can I find guides for setting up custom indicators on MetaTrader?
What should I do if my EA (Expert Advisor) is not functioning correctly?
How do I download Quote History in MT5?
How do I change the way my profits are displayed in the MT5 terminal?
How do I get log files from my desktop?
How Do I Open a Chart on The Android MT5?
How do I get started using MT5?
What is One Click Trading?
What is a Trailing Stop?
How do I configure MetaTrader 5?
How to view the contract MetaTrader for an instrument on MetaTrader platforms?
What does OHLC on a chart mean?
How Can I Turn OHLC On and Off on a Chart?
How can I view offline charts?
How to install an Expert Advisor (EA) on your VPS terminal?
What Should I Do if I Cannot Locate an Instrument on the MT5 Platform?
How do I install and uninstall MetaTrader 5 on my Windows PC?
Where do I find information regarding each instrument?
What is the Watchlist?
Where can I find the journal?
Adding currency pairs to the quote list
What time frames are available for my charts?
How do I add and remove symbols in the market watch window?
How do I cancel a pending order?
How can I take a screenshot of MT5 via my computer?
Where do I see my trading history?
How do I scroll back on a chart to view historical prices?
How do I add indicators to my chart?
How to open multiple charts on the Windows version of MT5?