Tutorial: Myfxbook account and Widget

[Alpenkorps]

Myfxbook is a fantastic website which show statistics about your Empty4 account. Many EA testers at this forum using Myfxbook to share their testing results.

This guide is created for those who are new to Myfxook and having trouble finding their way.

* First you need to register an account with Myfxbook. Registration process is fairly simple and done after an email verification.

* Click Portfolio > Add Account link



* Click the "Add Account" button



* Click the "Try the new account addition wizard ... (beta)" link



* Select your platform as Metatrader4



* Now you need to give your Account Information.

Account Name: Give your account a name
B-roker: Select your broker
Server: Select your Brokers trading server according to your account type.
Account Number: Give your account number
Investor Password: Give your investor password, not the Real one.



* Click the "Create Account" button when you are done.

* If you have done everything correct so far, You can now click on your account and see statistics. Give it a few minutes to load the data first.



Now you may want to add Myfxbook widget to your forum signature.

* First, go to the Myfxbook Widgets

* You can see there are many types of widget, as a example we will use the second one.

* You can select a color to give it a personal touch



* As you can notice there are two codes below every widget, HTML and BB. For forums, we need to use the BB code.

* So select the BB code and copy it



* Go the the forum's User Control Panel

* Go to Profile > Edit Signature

* In the text editor, paste the BB code you have copied earlier.

* Press the "Submit" button.



You are done !! Enjoy the Myfxbook strip in your forum signature

If you have any question or face any problem, feel free to ask.

[garyfritz]

Thanks AK! I hadn't taken the time to figure it out myself. Now I don't have to.

[Alpenkorps]

Khalaad and Garyfritz, you guys are most welcome.

[SteveHopwood]

Nice one again A. You are rapidly turning into something of a treasure here.

[SteveHopwood]

After thinking about it for a few seconds, I realised this thread does not deserve to get lost in the mists of time, so I have made it a sticky.

[Alpenkorps]

The signature shows in every post.

Is there not a way so it does not appear in some of the posts. Personally, I would like it to show only in my posts under Automated Trading.

Khalid

I am afraid not. Sig will follow your every post.

Alternatively, you can open a new thread, and post the widget there, so if anyone needs to know the results, he will have to visit that thread. You can share the thread link in your sig.

[gaheitman]

The signature shows in every post.

Is there not a way so it does not appear in some of the posts. Personally, I would like it to show only in my posts under Automated Trading.

Khalid

I am afraid not. Sig will follow your every post.

Alternatively, you can open a new thread, and post the widget there, so if anyone needs to know the results, he will have to visit that thread. You can share the thread link in your sig.

Thank you, Alpenkorps.

It is just that the signatures look rather out of place in the Bottom Line postings.

Khalid

Below the post entry section is an options box. Unchecking "Attach a signature" will prevent the signature from being attached on a post by post basis.

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It probably looks different depending on what theme you use. I use Supernova.

As a test, I have unchecked the option for this post.

George

[SteveHopwood]

Hi Alpenkorps. Only adding a reply here in the hope that doing so will bring this to the attention of others.

Setting up Myfxbook is not easy, so your thread here makes life easier for those who either have never, or have forgotten how (like me0, done so. Ok, I know that sentence is not quite correct in grammatical terms, but you guys know what I mean.

Cheers

[cuzgeorge]

Hi all,
a question about older posts and forum etiquette if i may;

posts that were made earlier in time and have now become irrelelevant, or i no longer see potential for the ea that was being tested.
Do we go back to the post and remove the widget by searching our own posts? :
i find i am changing ea's on demo accounts i previously used for older ea's.
what is good policy for this please?
regards
cuzgeorge

[SteveHopwood]

Hi all,
a question about older posts and forum etiquette if i may;

posts that were made earlier in time and have now become irrelelevant, or i no longer see potential for the ea that was being tested.
Do we go back to the post and remove the widget by searching our own posts? :
i find i am changing ea's on demo accounts i previously used for older ea's.
what is good policy for this please?
regards
cuzgeorge

I suggest you forget about them, George. Everyone else does. Imagine how long it would take me to go back over all my threads here, at FF and at FXAW to delete all my out of date posts.

Besides, you never know when someone might come back with, "Actually George, I made ........ work because of your post at ......."