Using the Visual Trading Console for trade entry and trade management in MT4

The following set of articles serves the purpose of a User Manual for the VTC trading console. For ease of navigation, the manual has been divided into several sections, which will quickly help you get things up and running.

• Installation & configuration

  Quick Setup Guide

  Assigning names to MT4 terminals

  Basic “one-time” configuration of VTC

  Overriding the default pip multiple setting for selected symbols

  Selecting symbols, which should be displayed in the trading console

  Changing line colors used during visual order entry & modification

  Setting up push notifications for Android & iOS smartphones

• Basic navigation & One-Click order entry

  The quote box component in VTC multi-terminal

  Using VTC’s floating order entry panel for MT4 chart

  Maximum spread filter

  Placing stop & limit pending orders in Visual Trading Console

  Placing pending orders using VTC_OrderEntryPanel

  Modify stops using lines on your charts

  Functions accessible from the bottom toolbar in VTC multi-terminal

  Setting up OCO orders in Metatrader4 via VTC ver 2.x

  OCO setup in VTC ver 3.x

  Viewing your weekly trading statistics

• Stealth orders

  How to set up stealth TP & SL values using Multi-level Profit Taking and Multi-level Stop Loss settings in VTC?

• Basic trade management

  Order management functions available from the order grids in VTC

  The trade manager – what is available & how to use it

  Creating a basic profile and set it as the default one to be applied to all new trades:

• Advanced trade management

  True multi-terminal trade manager module for Metatrader (Advanced automated order management)

• Troubleshooting guide

  Fix for “Can’t connect to licensing server” error

  Changing the default TCP communications port for VTC

Last updated: 2019-02-05