After adding a new MetaTrader 4 account, youll see an ftp user number. This number will be your ftp login in your MetaTrader 4 platform.

Go to your MetaTrader 4 terminal, click on Tools > Options > Publisher, and enter the settings as shown below:

After filling in the details, click on the Test button to see if configured successfully. You should see in the Journal tab of the terminal:

Thats it! Your accounts data is now updated every 5 minutes automatically at Myfxbook, whenever your trading platform is open.

Your new account should be analyzed within the next 60 seconds after a successful account addition. If it isnt added within the stated time frame, please check your configuration, and contact us if not resolved.

To enable magic numbers or comments read here.

If you have made any changes to the statement template in the templates folder, account data analysis will fail. Right click the following link and save it to your templates folder , statement.htm.

Besides the usual fields in the account addition form such as platform and system name, in order for us to automatically update your accounts data, you need to provide us with the URL for your history:

- Login to your FxTrade/FxGame Platform.

- Click on the Account menu, then select Full Transaction History.

- Copy the full URL shown in your browser. It should look something like this:

There is no need to select a date range for the history - our system will recognize it automatically.

If youre adding sub accounts, make sure you provide the correct link (you need to view the history for the sub account before copying the history URL), for example:

Account 1234: https://fx1.oanda.com/mod_perl/user/activityform.pl?o=1234&a=MNO%2FFrOkIeD7CPKPcv9ZNhtUHBc

Account 5678: https://fx1.oanda.com/mod_perl/user/activityform.pl?o=5678&a=MNO%2FFrOkIeD7CPKPcv9ZNhtUHBc

Also make sure that all trade types are turned on in your Filter settings page (Oanda transaction history page):

Your accounts data will be updated automatically every 60 minutes, until the end of the day, at midnight (GMT).
When the history link expires, to resume the data retrieval process you will be required to re-submit a fresh history link.

Please note, depending on the number of records in your trading history, initial account addition can take between 1 minute and up to 15 minutes.

Once logged in, go to the widgets page (at the bottom menu). Select your system, and just copy the suitable code (BBCode for forums, or HTML Code).
The widgets are self updating, as soon as your accounts trading activity is updated.
Please note, the associated account must be set to public before using this feature.

Currently there are 4 different widgets; mini, small, medium, and large:

Mini

Small

Medium

Large

Your portfolio is accessible only by you, with your login details. The portfolio has no privacy permissions, as it is your own account.

When privacy permissions are configured , those permissions apply to the systems page.

The URL for your system page is shown at the bottom of your portfolio, when viewing a system.

Please do not provide the link to your portfolio, as it is not accessible by others. Always use the systems page URL.

In order to analyze your account by magic numbers or show trades original comments, Please download our EA (Myfxbook.zip).
Place it in your MetaTrader 4 installation, experts folder and restart your MetaTrader 4 platform.

Make sure that expert advisors are enabled:

Double click the expert advisor and click OK (No need to change any setting):

If configured correctly, you should see the message Statement uploaded successfully in your Experts tab.

Remember to turn off the publisher as it will still be uploading the statement file. Do not change the publisher settings - they are used by the EA.

We recommend using the EA publishing option as it minimizes the statements file size by 80%.

Please note the EA will not upload your statement when the markets are closed.

If you need to restore magic numbers or comments for trades already logged on our server, tick the Restore Data mode:

Since performance can be easily manipulated with MetaTrader accounts, we have created an automatic verification system.
The verification system will automatically check and eliminate any discrepancies, restore missing data, and recalculate your account.
This is done simply by supplying us with your MetaTrader investor password (Note: This is a read-only password to your account!) and server name - then our systems will connect directly to your broker several times a day to verify your results.
Trades which were deleted by your broker cannot be verified, so other metrics such as profit, balance, deposits and more are used to verify your account.

If youre not sure to which server your platform connects, just go to the login panel in your MetaTrader:

If your server is not in the server list, please let us know.
In the account settings form in Myfxbook, you can select the server and input your investor password:

Please allow up to 2 hours for your account to be verified - if not verified within the stated time frame and you have double checked your investor password to be correct, please contact us.

If successful, youll notice your system will change its status from non-verified to verified:

Also note, that your system will not be shown in the systems page until it is verified!

This step requires you to provide us with the investor password!

Since users can publish an account which is not theirs using the investor password, another verification system is used.
In your account settings form, you can find in the verification section a key:

Open a pending order in your account with the key as the comment of the order.

Tip: Use price that is not likely to be encountered so the order wont be triggered. You can safely cancel the order once the trading privileges are verified.

After placing the order, make sure it appears in your open orders list:

When our systems will connect to your account using the provided investor password, it will search for the key - once found, your account will be verified for trading privileges.

If successful, youll notice your system will change its status from non-verified to verified:

This verification process ensures that you are actively trading the account and not using someones investor password. However, this check is relying on the fact that your accounts password wasnt stolen! In such case, please contact us.

Notifications will be sent to you by us or automatically by our system. Notifications can be regarding your account status, Myfxbook updates, subscribed topics or any other important information we feel you should know, so please check them regularly. The notification window will be hidden once all of the notifications are deleted, and will appear again when a new notification is received.

In order to stay up to date with the markets, weve created a markets widget, showing you in real time the status of the most important markets in the world.
Plan your trading sessions accordingly.

Top market news are provided for you for a quick glance at breaking news headlines.

Clicking on a headline will open the full story. Current news provider is FXstreet.com.

Economic calendar is shown in order to stay up to date with scheduled economic events.
The calendar counts down in real time the time left to an event, and will notify you 1 minute before the event by blinking.

As the title suggests, it shows the recent topics discussed by our community. Stay informed of current hot topics.

In the My Accounts tab, quickly check your systems progress, and see if anyone is discussing it.

In the watched tab, you can see the progress and changes in gains of accounts youre watching.

To add a system to your watch, simply go to the systems page, and click on the Watch link above the chart.

Two methods are used to calculate performance: cumulative and absolute.

• Using a cumulative method, deposits and withdrawals are not affecting the performance and it is calculated as follows:

  Once a new deposit/withdrawal is introduced, the base deposit balance resets to the current balance.For example:

  You deposit $10. (base deposit balance is $10).

  You double the $10 to $20, making a 100% return.

  You add another $80, raising the balance to $100 (base deposit balance is now $100).

  You make another $50 which is 50% from previous balance of $100.

  In total account is up 100%+50%=150%.

  This method measures the success of a trading system disregarding any *dollar values.
  
  
• Using an absolute method, this method measures the dollar profit, without taking into account the time line of the deposits or withdrawals.

  Yield = (Profit/Deposits)*100

  Using the same example from above, we get (60/90)*100=66.66%.

  This method measures the success of a trading system based on the amount of profit made in *dollar value.
  
  *For the above example, dollar is the accounts currency.

Drawdown is calculated based on the closed P/L of the account.

There are two charts to observe the progress of a trading system - a growth chart and a balance chart.

The growth chart captures the growth of the account based on the cumulative gain, ignoring any deposits or withdrawals.

The balance chart shows every change in the balance value of the account.

Click on the More button to see possible metrics. Sizing may be disabled if the creator of the system chose to keep it private.

Monthly gains are based on the cumulative yield calculation, and sum up the yield for each month starting on the 1st of the month 00:00 GMT and up until the last day of the month at 23:59 GMT.

Risk ratios are an important indicators to look at. They measure the Reward:Risk ratio per currency per selected month.

This ratio shows you the average return you get for a winning trade versus a losing one (Average Winner:Average Loser). For example, if you made 3 trades on EUR/USD, 1 loser, and 2 winners; and in total you won $214, but lost $300, the ratio is (214/2):(300), which is 1:2.8.

In other words, you win $1 dollar for every $2.8 lost.

This is another important indicator to look at. Combining it with the risk ratios, can show you your quickest profit making currencies.

The ratio shows the average holding period for each currency, divided to long and short positions, per selected month.

Currencies popularity is exactly what the title suggests - it shows you how much trades were made with which currency per selected month.

Combine it with the risk ratios and the average holding time to decide with which pairs you should trade more and with which less, in order to maximize gains and minimize losses.

If you would like to choose your own time frame to analyze the account, or filter the analysis by other parameters such as magic numbers (MetaTrader 4), click on the Custom Analysis above the chart.

You have two possibilities to select a time frame:

• Use the quick access buttons, and select the last day, week, month, 6 months, or a year.

  
  

  

  
  

• Use the custom date selection, and specifically state the analysis period:

  
  

  

  
  

To filter by magic number, tick the magic numbers. This option is available only after enabling magic numbers.
Enabling magic numbers and comments (MetaTrader 4)

Once magics are selected, our systems will analyze each magic and chart its progress on the chart:

Analysis will be done in real time.

You can set the magics names and colors in the corresponding accounts settings:

If you would like to publish a custom period of your account, just click on the pin icon to save the start date:

Once set, it will be the default start date of your system, and will simulate the growth as if you started trading at the selected date (All statistics will be recalculated, including the widgets).
Please note, due to transparency issues, prior dates are not hidden from the user in your public system page; moreover, if you use this feature, your public system page will include a disclaimer at the top to let others know that youre using a custom start date:

You can also save the default magics to show in your charts by clicking on the pin icon in the magics list (The cumulative growth of selected magics will not be saved!).

To create a discussion on your own system, your system must be set as public.

In order to create a discussion on a system, go to the system page (or to your portfolio in case its your system), above the systems chart you will see a Discuss link, as shown below:

In case a member decides to make his system private after a discussion on it has already started, the system stats will be hidden in the discussion.

After posting a message, you have the option of editing your post for 30 minutes from the time of posting.

Just click on the edit link, and edit away!

You found a post to be insulting? Maybe it looks like spam? Or you just think it shouldnt be there? No problem! Let us know by clicking the Report link beneath the post.

Since youve probably traded with different brokers, we would love you to share your experience with the rest of our community.

Rating consists of 4 factors: platform, pricing, customer service, and features.

Rating a broker takes less than a minute, and its anonymous.

If rating wasnt enough and you would like to elaborate, please feel free to post your detailed review!

There are two possible ways to find a system: searching a system by its parameters (such as gain, drawdown, leverage, etc.) or searching a system by its name.

• To find a system by its parameters, click on the Systems button on the top menu, and specify your criteria.
• To find a system by its name, write its name in the search box located in the menu. After the search has completed, go to the Systems tab in the search results page.

Please note, only public and verified systems are listed on the systems page.

In your Accounts tab in the settings area, you will find all of your added systems. You can see their statuses as to whether theyre active; you can delete systems or add new ones.

Each system can have its own set of privacy settings.

As seen from the screen-shot above, you have full control of what information to share.

The information you choose to hide from public, will be hidden and shown as : .

Select which messages you would like to receive in your email.

These can be either private messages, subscribed topics, or when we add new features.

Although not obligatory, you can fill your profile information to let the community know you better.

You can write your real name, location, trading experience, bio, trading style, motto, or change your avatar.

Change your password or email.

Here you can control and see all of your subscriptions. We have provided you with the last post date in the subscribed topic so youll easily know whats worth being subscribed for and whats not.

Connect your MetaTrader 4 account with twitter. Trades will be sent automatically to your twitter account without lifting a finger.

Your system does not need to be public to use this feature.

So you want to share your system with someone without letting the whole world see it? We understand, and here where this feature comes into play.

Create an entirely unique privacy permissions set for your system. We will create a unique link for you, which you will be able to share privately with anyone.

There is no need to create an invitation link if you want to let everyone see your system, just use your systems page link shown in your portfolio.

If you have noticed some missing history in one of your trading accounts, login to your trading account with your MetaTrader 4 platform, go to the Account History tab, right-click on the history, and select All History:

If no history data is added to your MetaTrader 4 history, your accounts history was deleted by your broker and unfortunately we dont have a way of recovering the lost data.

If history data was added to your MetaTrader 4 history, it will be added to your accounts data at Myfxbook on the next update of your account.

Since Oanda deletes from time to time accounts history (FxGame) from their servers, you might notice the yield is different value than what youve come up with.

This happens because of the fact that yield factor relies on account deposits. If we couldnt locate a deposit in your account, our system uses the first balance found as a deposit.

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