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
  • Setting the visibility of individual columns on the order grids
  • 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:

  • Using the “Add to position” trade management profile
• Advanced trade management
  • True multi-terminal trade manager module for Metatrader (Advanced automated order management)
• Trade copy functionality
  • Setting up the trade copy module
  • Setting up individual accounts for copying trades
• Troubleshooting guide
  • Fix for “Can’t connect to licensing server” error
  • Changing the default TCP communications port for VTC

Last updated: 2020-12-15