Profiles and Saving a Profile in MetaTrader 4
In MT4 stock index platform, you might want to save a work space that you have opened, especially if you have come to a Stock Indices Trading tutorial site like this one that has shown you how to place indicators & open many Stock Indices charts & put various tools on these charts and you want to continue tomorrow from where you left of, then this saving your stock index platform work space tutorial will show you how to do it.
To save a work space on MT4 stock index trading platform you will use the 'Profiles' button key, which is the fourth choice on the 'File' drop-down menu list - this button key is shown and illustrated below:
How to Save Work Space in MT4
From above profile button, once you click this button key, another submenu pops up to the right as shown above, to save your current work space as a profile, click the 'Save As' button shown above & name your profile, for example you can call it 'My Workspace'
Examples of how to save a workspace named 'My Workspace'
Saving Work Space on MetaTrader 4
The next time that you will login to the MT4 Indices 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 EUR in the above example, then you would just click on the name of profile that you want and the load it on the MetaTrader 4 software.
The 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 MT4 platform as shown above).
Another short-cut to load this 'profiles' is using this button key at the bottom center position of MT4 trade platform as shown below.
Saving and Loading Profiles in MT4
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.
