How to place a buy or a sell position on metatrader platform

After you have managed to get accessed to your trading account on the meta trading platform,the next thing that you will want to do is to place a buy or a sell order.Here is how you can do this

-From your meta trading platform account,there is a buy and a sell on the left and right side while at the center there is a white space separating them where the is some numbers ranging from 0.01 going forward.That section is surrounded by the red mark from the image below

-The section for inputing the amount you want to buy or sell is the unit or the lot section.There you can enter the amount you want to buy or sell.If you want to decrease or increase the amount,there is the scroll arrow for doing that.You can use it to do that.The section has been indicated with a yellow color.Here is how it looks like;


-After you have inserted the amount of lots/units that you want to buy or sell,now it is time to place the order.If you have noticed that the market is about to go up,then that will automatically tells you that it is time to place a buy order.You can click on the buy button to enter a buy position.This is indicated in the image below inside the yellow mark


-If the market is to go down,then you can click on the sell button to enter a sell position.This is indicated in the image below inside the yellow mark;


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