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1. INSTALLATION OF THE APP PAGE 03

2. LOGGING INTO YOUR JFD BROKERS ACCOUNT PAGE 04

3. MENU AND NAVIGATION PAGE 06

4. QUOTES PAGE PAGE 08

A. ADDING FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS TO THE QUOTES LIST PAGE 08

B. OPERATING WITH THE QUOTES PAGE PAGE 09

5. CHART PAGE PAGE 11

A. OPERATIONAL CHART BUTTONS AND SETTINGS PAGE 12

B. INDICATORS PAGE 14

6. TRADE PAGE PAGE 16

A. HOW TO PLACE AN ORDER PAGE 17

B. HOW TO CLOSE/MODIFY AN ORDER PAGE 23

7. HISTORY PAGE PAGE 24

8. MANAGING OPTIONS MENU PAGE 25

A. ACCOUNTS PAGE 25

B. SETTINGS PAGE 26

C. MESSAGES PAGE 26

MT4+ ANDROIDUSERGUIDE

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Once you have downloaded and installed MetaTrader 4+ for

Android from Google Play, the Metatrader 4 icon will appear on

your screen.

1. INSTALLATION OF THE APP

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To open the application, simply click on its icon.

You will be presented with the options to either start without

registration (1), log in to an existing account (2) or open a free

demo account (3).

Please always choose the option “Login to an existing account”.

You can open a demo account only via the desktop platform of

JFD Brokers or you can receive login details from our customer

support at [email protected].

2. LOG INTO YOUR JFD BROKERS ACCOUNT

PLEASE DO NOT USE THE OPTION OPEN A PERSONAL DEMO ACCOUNT.

You cannot open a demo account by JFD Brokers via the mobile application. If

you sign up for a demo account directly from the mobile platform, you will not

receive JFD Brokers pricing, leverage, or available instruments. It will not be a

JFD Brokers demo account, but rather a generic overview of MetaTrader 4 for

the smart phone.

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Once you have selected “Login to an existing account”, you have

to select the server that you wish to connect to. Type in the Search

field “JFD” and you will be presented with our two servers to

connect to:

▪ To connect to your Demo account, select the “JFD-Demo”

server (1).

▪ To connect to your Live account, select the “JFD-Live01” or

“JFD-Live02” server (2).

2. LOG INTO YOUR JFD BROKERS ACCOUNT

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On the next step you will be directed to the “Login” page.

Please enter your JFD account number and password.

If you tick the box “Save password” (4), you will save your login

credentials, so that you do not have to enter them each time you

open the application.

When you have entered your login details, click on the “Sign In”

button.

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Upon successful login, you will see the “Quotes” (1) screen.

Here you will see just a few of JFD Brokers’ available instruments

that are set as default to show up on your display.

3. MENU AND NAVIGATION

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When you click on the menu icon located on the top left corner of

the screen, you can access the 7 main Control Tabs to manage your

account:

▪ Quotes (1) – shows the financial instruments and their current

spreads listed

▪ Charts (2) - describes price movements of the preferred

currency pair

▪ Trade (3) - here you will find the main information regarding

your open positions (balance, free margin, etc.)

▪ History (4) – contains details about your trading history and

balance

▪ Mailbox (5) – contains all incoming messages you have received

from JFD Brokers. It is important that you regularly check your

mailbox for important notifications about the markets.

▪ News (6) – any news feed installed on your terminal.

▪ Messages (7) – messages from the MQL5.community and Expert

Advisors.

The “Quotes”, “Charts”, “Trade”, “History” and “News” options are

available as tab at the bottom of the screen as well.

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A. ADDING FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS TO THE QUOTES LIST

To add more financial instruments to your “Quotes” list, select the

“Plus” (+) button (1) from the top right-hand 2 icons. In the next

window you will see a list of all financial instruments grouped in

the same categories that are shown on your MT4+ Desktop

terminal. When you click on a category, a new page with a full list

of its instruments appears. To add a new instrument, you just need

to click on it.

4. QUOTES PAGE

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By dragging the row of a certain instrument up or down, you can

rearrange the order of the listed symbols. In order to enable this

functionality, you need to click on the “Pen” icon (2) on the top

right-hand side order of your screen.

Use the “Recycle Bin” (3) to remove unwanted instruments.

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B. OPERATING WITHIN THE QUOTES PAGE

By tapping and holding down on a certain financial instrument from

the “Quotes” list, a pop up box with 4 options will be presented to

you: New order (1); Open chart (2); Symbol properties (3);

Advanced view mode (4).

Using the “New order” option, you can place a trade for the

specific instrument you have selected. Selecting the “Open chart”

option will allow you to see the chart of the specified instrument.

4. QUOTES PAGE

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The “Symbol properties” option provides you with detailed

information for the preferred instrument, including: Spread (5);

Digits (6); Stop levels (7); Pending orders (they are valid Good Till

Canceled) (8); Contract size (9); Profit calculation mode (10); Swap

type (11); Swap short (12); Margin calculation (13); Margin hedge

(14).

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The quotes can be displayed in an Advanced view mode or in the

default Simple view mode.

4. QUOTES PAGE

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You could also customize the “Quotes” page using the “Settings”

section (2) of the managing options menu and then you can

directly choose the preferred mode.

For the “Symbol” section, please have a look at chapter 4a.

By selecting the “Advanced

mode” (1) option you can see

the spreads (shown in

pipettes), the time when the

prices were last updated, and

high and low price levels.

In contrast to the “Advanced

mode”, the “Simple mode”

displays only the ask and bid

price, without high and low

price levels, spreads and time

of updating.

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You can access the Chart page by clicking on the Chart tab (1) at

the bottom of the screen.

The Chart page of the mobile platform will always show the

current instrument you have selected.

You can zoom in or zoom out the chart by dragging two fingers

across the display and pinching to zoom in and out.

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A. OPERATIONAL CHART BUTTONS AND SETTINGS

To use the crosshair click the Plus button (1). To change the

instrument that is displayed, select the Dollar button (2).

The Clock button (3) allows you to switch between different

timeframes for your chart.

You have 9 different time intervals (Periodicity) to choose from:

M1 – one minute chart; M5 – five minutes chart; M15- fifteen

minutes chart; M30 – thirty minutes chart; H1 – one hour chart;

H4 – four hours chart; D1 – daily chart; W1 – one week chart;

MN1 – one month chart

The Add button (4) can be used to place an order. From here, you

can enter the traded volume size; select another instrument and

the type of order execution you want to place – either choosing

between a market execution order or a pending order (Buy Limit,

Sell Limit, Buy Stop, Sell Stop).

For more information about placing an order, please refer to

chapter 6.

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This application allows you to customise the chart according to

your needs or trading strategies as well. Just click the “Settings”

button (1) of the managing options menu and you will find within

the Settings a “Charts” section (2).

Here you can turn On and Off the volumes, the trade levels, the

Open/High/Low/Close rates and the Data window. Furthermore,

you can choose between bar chart, candlestick and line chart for

your preferable line style.

When “Show trade levels” (3) is enabled, all open positions and

pending orders of a symbol are shown on the symbol chart. The

trade operations are displayed as lines with signatures at the level,

at which they were executed.

The function OHLC displays open, high, low and close price for the

relevant chart period.

5. CHART PAGE

Note: The MT4 app can only open one chart at a time. To change the chart of

the CFD or currency pair, simply go back to “Quote”, choose the instrument

you want to display, tap on it, and in the action menu tap on Chart. Your

customised chart characteristics will not be lost in this process.

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B. INDICATORS

By selecting the Indicator button (1) on the “Charts” screen, the

page “Indicators” (2) will appear for the particular instrument

shown on the chart.

1. To add an indicator, click the “Plus” (+) button.

2. You will find four major indicator groups: Trend, Oscillators,

Volumes, Bill Williams.

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3. A list of all available indicators will appear below each group.

4. Tap on the desired indicator, for instance “Moving Average” (3),

to open its properties window. The properties of an Indicator

may be altered to your own preference.

5. To confirm your properties and go back to the chart, select

“Done”.

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To add another Indicator to your chart, you should open the

“Indicator” window again and add another indicator by clicking on

the “Plus” (+) button.

If you want to edit or remove an “Indicator” from the chart, you

need to go back to the Indicator page by pressing the Indicator

button (1). You should only tap on the particular Indicator, hold on

for two seconds for a new pop-up menu to appear. On this display

you will be presented with two options: “Edit” (2) or “Delete” (3).

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The “Trade” (1) page can be referred to as Terminal, similar to the MT4 Desktop version. Here you can see your account balance, equity,

margin, free margin, margin level, as well as all open Positions and Pending orders. When tapping on a position from the Positions list you

can see its parameters (Stop loss, Take profit, Swap costs, Taxes. If you have any pending orders open, they will be shown in the “Orders”

(2) section of the page, which should appear below the “Positions” (3) section. Here you will see the instrument, the type of pending order,

the volume, the entry price, and then the current spot price of the position to see how close your order is to being executed. To view all the

parameters of the pending order, please tap on it (as done with open positions). The information given is the same as the information given

for open orders except instead of showing “Swap (4), Taxes (5) and Charges (6)”, it shows “Price, Date and Time.”

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A. HOW TO PLACE AN ORDER

You can open a trade at any time by simply tapping on the New

order button (1). Alternative ways to place an order include:

tapping on a financial instrument of the Quotes page or tapping on

the chart of a certain instrument listed on the Chart page and then

selecting the New Order option from the pop-up menu. Once you

have selected the New Order option, you will be directed to the

page for placing a trade. Here you can choose the instrument, the

volume and the type of order you wish to place (market order or

pending order).

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First select the instrument and the type of order you wish to place.

You have the option of placing the following order types:

▪ Market Execution (1): A buy or sell order that is executed at the

market price.

▪ Buy limit (2): A pending order to open a buy position with an

entry price below the current market price.

▪ Sell Limit (3): A pending order to open a sell position with an

entry price above the current market price. Afterwards you

should select the Volume for your trade either by using the

arrow buttons next to the Volume entry field in the relevant

direction or by tapping on the Volume entry field - an on-screen

keyboard will allow you to manually enter the number.

▪ Buy Stop (4): A pending order to open a buy position with an

entry price above the current market price.

▪ Sell Stop (5): A pending order to open a sell position with an

entry price below the current market price.

6. TRADE PAGE

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The “Plus” (+) (1) and “Minus” (-) (2) buttons will raise or lower the

volume being traded. Once you have set the parameters of your

trade, select the “Buy” (3), “Sell” (4) or “Place” (5) button that will

appear based on your order type (market execution or pending

order) at the bottom of the “Trade” page.

6. TRADE PAGE

By some financial instruments (stocks, indices, commodities) the minimum

order volume is 1, while for Forex it is 0.01 lots (1000 currency units). Please

consider the instrument you are trading and enter an acceptable quantity for

the relevant instrument.

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If you choose to place a Market Execution order, it will be executed

immediately at the current market price. After pressing the “Buy”

or “Sell” button, you will be presented with 2 pages displaying

order placement status and details (price and S/L or T/P levels if

any).

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If you have selected one of the five Pending Order types, the next

pages that will appear gives you the relevant details as well.

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Once you see the “Order is open” page (1), your order is executed.

You will instantly see the details of your order along with the price

you have entered the market at.

To enter an execution price, select the Price entry field (1). An on-

screen keyboard appears so as to manually input the price at which

you want to execute your order.

To enter a Stop Loss and Take Profit, select the relevant entry

fields and the on-screen keyboard (2) will appear again where you

will then be able to input the values you desire.

6. TRADE PAGE

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The next button will give you the option to add an “Expiration” (1)

for any pending order that you have placed.

The default setting is “GTC” (Good till Cancelled) (2) for currency

trading. For the other financial instruments, the pending orders

expiration depends from the requirements of the exchanges.

Once all trading parameters are set, select the Place button and

your Pending Order will be placed.

6. TRADE PAGE

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If the entry price, the SL or the TP you have entered is not correct, the button

Place will remain inactive (in grey).

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Please note that the function Expiration is disabled on the Live Server mobile

application. You cannot place live orders with expiry date.

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B. HOW TO MODIFY/ CLOSE AN ORDER

To close/modify an open position, to add a stop loss or take profit,

you should select the order from the “Trade” page. Just tap and

hold down for a few seconds until the optional menu pops up. At

this point you will be able to modify or close open positions. The

pop-up menu contains the following options:

▪ Close order (1) - to close your order at the market price.

▪ New order (2) – to bring you back to the trade tab to place a

new order.

▪ Modify order (3) – to add or modify your stop loss and take

profit.

▪ Chart (4) – to bring you back to the chart for the instrument you

are trading.

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The History page (1) enables you to view your trading history.

To choose the time period for your history report, press the

button. Choose from one of the following options: Today, Last

week, Last month, Last 3 months, or Custom. “Custom” (2) enables

you to select the time period of your choice.

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To view your trades in a certain order, press the Arrows button (3).

A list of different custom sort options (Symbol, Order, Opening

time, Closing time, Profit) will appear. Tap twice to change the

ordering (ascending/descending).

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A. ACCOUNTS

In the Accounts section (1) you can see all the accounts that you have logged into from your device. By pressing the Plus button (2) at the

top right of the screen, you will be brought back to the Login page, where you can login to a new account. To delete an account, select and

hold onto the desired account and a pop-up screen will appear with the “Delete” option (3). The info of the recently connected account is

shown in a pop-up window that appears after clicking on the i-icon.

8. MANAGING THE OPTIONS MENU

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The option “Settings” allows you to customise your quotes list, and

your chart settings. Please read more information in the relevant

chapters 4b. and 5a.

8. MANAGING THE OPTIONS MENU

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C. MESSAGES

The “Messages” section of the managing options of the MT4

application is the place where you can get messages from the

MQL5.community and Expert Advisors by using your ID.

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