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You are here: Home / Metatrader / Understanding Tick Volume and Metatrader 4

Understanding Tick Volume and Metatrader 4

June 27, 2013 by Rajandran 1 Comment

Question : I tried different Metatrader 4 trading terminals from two different brokers and the volume data is different in both the trading terminals at the same time. Does the broker use different feeds or that volume is only for that particular broker only.

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In MetaTrader 4 Client Terminal, the volume of bar is the amount of ticks that have income during the bar forming. So, indicator Volume is based on the volume of bars. A tick represents a trading transaction. So in a 1minute charts if 79 transactions occured then the volume is represented as 79. And mostly tick is broker dependent.The absolute average number of ticks is different between brokers. If the market liquidity is high then volumes also high. For Example Alpari UK simply has “volume spikes” not present on the other brokers due to poor liquidity conditions. In general Metatrader doesnt supports tick based charts. visit here to setup Tick Charts for Metatrader 4

What is the impact of Tick Volume?

So if you are trading based on Volume based indicators like Volume Profile, On Balance Volume, Money Flow Index, Force Index or if you are planning for using EA which uses volume information behind your mathematical models be clear what you are exactly planning to do. If you are taking trading decisions based on volume based indicators it is better choose high liquid brokers in live accounts (as demo accounts will provide you different volume picture).

And in case of CFD trading the volume information represents broker based Tick Volume and not the actuals future contracts/number of stock traded in the exchange. So in such scenarios its better to avoid volume based studies in your trading decision.

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About Rajandran

Rajandran is a Full time trader and founder of Marketcalls & Co-Founder of Traderscafe, trades mostly using discretionary Trading Concepts like Market Profile, Trading sentimental analysis, building timing models, algorithmic trading models. Instructs professional traders, full time traders & aspiring full time traders. Rajandran attended college in the Chennai where he earned a BE in Electronics and Communications. Rajandran has a broad understanding of trading softwares like Amibroker, Ninjatrader, Esignal, Metastock, Motivewave, Market Analyst(Optuma),Metatrader,Tradingivew,Python and understands individual needs of traders and investors utilizing a wide range of methodologies.

Comments

  1. Rob says

    August 24, 2013 at 7:35 pm

    1. Are you saying that Alpari UK has poor liquidity conditions and that they only have volume spikes showing and if so, is that more misleading than a volume display on other MT4 brokers?
    I ask this because I am using an Alpari UK MT4 demo account and I wish to use volume as part of a trading strategy.
    2. Alpari UK tell me that their MT5 platform is an ECN platform (not sure what the significance is of that) but would the volume shown on it be any better than the MT4 version?
    Cheers
    rob

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