Possible reasons:

Your account is set to read-only.

You are logged in using your read-only password.

Your read-only password is the same as your trading account password.

You haven’t made the minimum deposit required for that account.

Because of the spread and commission (for Advantage account) being applied.

The prices displayed on the MT platform charts are the maximum Bid or High (top of the bar) and minimum Bid or Low (bottom of the bar).

• Ask price = Bid + Spread
• Minimum ask = Low + Spread
• Maximum ask = High + Spread

On Buy positions, your Stop Loss and Take Profit orders will be triggered when the Bid price reaches the order level.

On Sell positions your Stop Loss and Take Profit orders will be triggered when the Ask price reaches the order level.

Buy Limit and Buy Stop orders will be triggered when the Ask prices reach order level.

Sell Limit and Sell Stop orders will be triggered when the Bid prices reach order level.

You can display an ‘Ask Line’ in your charts by following the steps below:

1. Right click anywhere on the chart and select ‘Properties’.
2. Go to the ‘Common’ tab and select the ‘Show Ask Line’ option.
3. Click ‘OK’ to apply.

Standard Account: You can set your Stop Loss/Take Profit in the new order window.

Advantage Account: You can set the Stop Loss/Take Profit after placing a new order by double clicking on the order or with a right click. Amend it by selecting ‘Modify or Delete Order’ from the ‘Trade’ tab in the terminal window.

You cannot modify or delete a Stop Loss/Take Profit once the price is reached.

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1. Right/Double click on the trade you wish to close.
2. Once the order window opens, click ‘Close’ and then ‘OK’.

You can view all closed positions in the ‘Account History’ tab.

Select ‘Tools’ and then ‘New Order’ from within your trading platform.

Complete the required information in the new window.

For Windows PC:

1. Download and install the indicator and log in to your trading platform.
   2. Select the ‘Open data folder’ from the ‘File’ tab.
2. Click ‘MQL4’ and then ‘Indicators’ and drag the indicator from your desktop to the new folder that opens.
3. Exit your platform and log in again.
4. Check your Navigator Window to find your new indicator.

For MAC/OS X:

1. Go to the ‘Applications’ folder and right click (Command + click) on the trading platform icon.
2. Select ‘Show Package Contents’ and click ‘Drive C’.
3. Navigate to ‘Program Files’ and then to the relevant trading platform folder.
4. Select ‘MQL4’ and then click ‘Indicators’.
5. Drag and drop your indicator to the window that opens.

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