An introduction to the MetaTrader trading platform

This video demonstrates how to use the MetaTrader 4 (also referred to as MT4) trading platform to trade currencies, commodities, futures and indices. Most forex brokers provide traders with the MetaTrader 4 platform for trading. This is the most popular trading platform out there as it is very simple to use. You can learn all of the basics in just a few minutes. This video shows how to place orders using the MetaTrader 4 platform and how to navigate its already-intuitive interface.

Also, Forex-Central.net features an easy to use (and fast!) guide to using the MetaTrader 4 platform, check out part II of: "using the MetaTrader 4 platform for the first time".