MT5 vs TradingView Grrr

Hi Everyone !

I’ve finally finished the PIP school and I’ve spent about 20 hours the last 2 weeks watching and learning Forex ( Mainly from No Nonsense Forex )

Anyways after I’m done with my initial studies I’ve decided to start demoing and backtesting … This is where I’m starting to have lots of trouble

I’m quite familiar with TradingView as I used it previously for Stocks so I thought of using it for FX but apparently all the good indicators are on MT5

So I decided to get a Windows ( I use a Chromebook ) to use MT5

And MT5’s interface is not very friendly but there are a lot more functionality but here’s my main issue with the 2 charting software

Trading View ( Paper Trading , Blueberry Markets)

  • Can trade in any lot sizes ! I trade small unit sizes so I was able to do trades at 1500 units whereby MT5 limits my trade to 1000 units each ( I can’t put 1100 , 1200 , 2500 units )
  • Trailing STOPS !! I can’t set a trailing stop ! I’ve watched their blog and I still have no idea how to pop out the trailing stop menu which is really problematic.

MT5 ( Blueberry Markets , Oanda )

  • I can set any orders I want ! Trailing , SL , TPs
  • It’s ligghting fast as well which is great
  • The problem I have with MT5 is that as stated above I can’t do specific lot sizes
    I can’t do 0.0015 lots or 0.0025 lots it must be 0.001 , 0.002 etc I can’t go upwards of 5 decimals which is problematic for my current lot sizes.

So the question here is … am I doing something wrong ? or is it the problem with some brokers?

I’ve google and watched many comparisons but no videos brought up the issues im having

Any help would be lovely !