There is often the desire to save the indicator which is at the foot of a post, but when i double click to download it does noy shuw in my indicator foldrtbut is in my download folder… how do i get it to the right folder
Copy and Paste it.
of course it’s in your DOWNLOAD folder (Assuming you are using Windows)
When a file downloads (unless you have specified a different location) BE DEFAULT it will download to your download folder.
Now. (Contrary to the rumours) you can put an indicator into an EXPERTS folder, or even into a SCRIPTS folder.
it doesn’t really matter
it’s just a folder
the only difference will be…
- When you open MT-4
Which folder are you going to look in , to find it,
so… it’s easier to keep Indicators in the Indicators folder
and EA"s in the Experts Folder
Now. given the simplicity of your question, i’m going to assume YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE THE FOLDERS ARE
so… here is a tutorial on that
let’s say you’ve downloaded your INDICATOR and now its’ in your DOWNLOADS folder
ok
do this
-
CLOSE MT-4 (if it’s open)
-
find your MetaTrader Installation folder
it should be in one of these locations
C:\Program Files (x86)\Pepperstone MetaTrader 4
C:\Program Files\Pepperstone MetaTrader 4
C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming
C:\Users\User\AppData\Local
NOTE: if you can’t find the AppData folder when in your User folder
you can either type it in manually
or
go to
CONTROL PANEL/FOLDER OPTIONS
and select Show hidden files/folders
now once you have found the data folder
you’ll see this
let’s spend a second to familiarize ourselves with what’s happening here
CONFIG - (if you have to ask what it is, YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN’T BE TOUCHING IT)
It contains fonfiguation information so that MT-4 runs properly LEAVE IT ALONE
HELP - No one cares, You may or may not have this, it doesn’t matter
HISTORY - this is your history folder, you probably won’t do much here
LOGS - you probably won’t do much here unless you have a tech fault and then your broker will look here.
if you are curious, feel free to open a .txt FILE IN HERE TO TAKE A PEEK. it doesn’t hurt
-MQL4 VERY IMPORTANT FOLDER (let’s talk about it below)
-
PROFILES - When you save a profile in MT-4, aka a set of charts. it saves the files here so it loads up again
as it did previously -
SOUNDS , Take a Guess what this does HEHE
now , for the cheeky among you, you can download Metallica- Master of Puppets
Rename it to Alert 1 and when you set an alert hehe
it will go… DUN… DUN DUN DUN DUNANANANANANAN NANA hehe
it’s good fun playing with Audacity and the sounds folder hehe
TEMPLATES - you might not know this, but when you set something up in MT-4 you canSAVE PROFILE
or right click and SAVE AS TEMPLATE
if you save it as as template it gets saved here
TESTER - this only becomes relevant if you are using the strategy tester in MT-4 and this is where you will load
your tick data
the remaining files start MT-4 or are Detailed Statements
NOW LET’S TALK ABOUT THAT MQL-4 FOLDER very important
Understand this
- when you enter this folder it looks like this
see anything familiar
EXPERTS…INDICATORS… Right ?
You are probably only going to use (as a beginner)
Experts
Indicators
and on the odd occasion
SCRIPTS
so… Your EA’s go in EXPERTS
your indicators go in INDICATORS
JUST COPY AND PASTE IT
last thing you need to know
WHEN YOU OPEN MT-4
and you go to NAVIGATOR the yellow star at the top under CHARTS
it will look like this
here is a side by side look at the folder and MT-4
see… EXPERTS ADVISORS is the EXPERTS folder
INDICATORS is the INDICATORS folder
and if we open them to compare them
you get the idea… right
and the same is true for the indicators folder
SO… ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS COPY AND PASTE YOUR EXPERT FILES FROM DOWNLOADS
TO EXPERTS
THEN OPEN UP MT-4
OPEN NAVIGATOR AND GO TO EXPERT ADVISORS AND FIND IT
SIMPLE
hope that helps
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