Profiles and Saving a Profile in MetaTrader 4
In MetaTrader 4 Forex platform, you may want to save a work space that you have opened, especially if you have come to a Forex 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 tomorrow from where you left of, then this saving your Forex platform work space tutorial will show you how to do it.
To save a work space on MetaTrader 4 forex trading software you'll use "Profiles" button, which is fourth choice on "File" dropdown menu list - this button key is shown & illustrated below:
How to Save Work Space on MT4 Online Forex Platform
From the above profile button, once you click this button key, another sub-menu appears to the right as shown above, to save your current work space as a profile, click "Save As" button key shown above & name your profile, for example you can call it "My Workspace"
Example of how to save a work space named "My Workspace"
Saving Work Space on MT4
The next time that you will login to the MetaTrader 4 Forex trade platform and you want to load the saved "My Work Space" profile: You will go to File Menu>>>Then Click Profiles>>>and Then Select "My Work Space". In the above case this profile is already selected as shown by the check mark/ tick mark. If you wanted to switch to another saved work space or profile for example the one marked Swiss Franc or Euro in the above example, then you would just click on the name of profile that you want and the load it on the MT4 software.
Loaded work space "My Work Space" is also displayed at the bottom center of the MT4 platform: (below $100,000 account balance transaction window, below the "Experts" tab, at the middle bottoms position of the MetaTrader 4 platform as shown above).
Another short-cut to load this "profiles" is using this button key at the bottom center position of MetaTrader 4 trade platform as shown below.
Saving and Loading Profiles on MT4 Online Forex Software
From this guide, now as a trader you have learned how to save a work space using the profiles button on the MT4 platform, under the file drop down menu and you can now save as many profiles as you want on yourMT4 softwareand then select any of these saved profiles any other time that you may require to trade with them.