MT4 help for newbie!

Hi there,
I am learning about forex, and while the babypips school is very helpful for learning the forex market, I am having trouble figuring out how to use forex software. I have metatrader 4, and I am finding it extremely confusing with no tutorial given. I haven’t been able to find any tutorials on it either. The main thing that confuses me, is that although forex is about trading currency, I can’t find a screen which tells me the amounts of different currencies I own. I can see the balance of my account, but after I thought I had been ‘buying’ a currency, I was expecting to see it listed somewhere. Could somebody shed some light on this for me, or direct me to a tutorial of some kind?

Cheers, xacimo

xacimo,

Here are two links which will get you started:

Forex with Alpari (UK) - Alpari Academy Video Tutorials

Forex Trading with Alpari (US) MT4 Trading Manual - MT4 Trading Manual - MT4 Platform - Forex Basics

Clint