Help Uploading Files into MT4

HI All,
Just trying to keep this simple. When fellow traders share there attached files on the FF, what are the steps to follow to plug this into the platform. I am not looking to do any form of programming or change, edit any text.
Would appreciate any help
Thanks

If its a chart template, it goes in /templates folder in the programs installation folder under program files on your C: hard drive

If its an indicator it goes in the /experts/indicators folder of the installation folder in program files.

Indicators have the extension .mq4
some people only provide the compiled version without the source code, these have the extension .ex4 and go in the same /experts/indicators folder.

Just drag and drop the files into the folders in widows explorer, then start up meta trader and the indicators should now appear on your list of available indicators under CUSTOM

Thank you Maxvre, the indicators are up and running with no problems

Hi, I have been able to download some files to each of the experts and templates file and they work ok, but other don't. Some turn up in theexpert advisors column , and others in the custom indicators column. Its the one in the experts column I can't attach to my chart even when I right click and it say attach to chart, nothing happens. Any help would be much appreciated .Thanks.

Hi, i could recommend you to check the "Journal" tab at the bottom of MetaTrader window, there should be some extended errors about indicators.

Thanks, I checked there but there was nothing there. I'll have to delve deeper.

Be sure that they actually are expert advisors and not indicators and visa versa.

You can get 3 different types

indicators
expert advisors
scripts

putting the wrong type in the wrong folder will result in nothing happening.

Sounds simple but i've made the mistake myself before. I've put indicators in the experts folder instead of the indicators sub folder and haven't realised it. I've put scripts in the experts folder instead of the scripts folder and wondered why they didn't work.

Sounds simple but when its 2 am and the coffee has run out, strange things start happening ;-)

Secondly not every written program works. These are not professionally written. Some are badly written or have bugs, or worked on an older version of meta trader but now don't work as meta trader may have updated some variable names in a newer version etc and now the code doesn't work.

For example I downloaded a clock indicator that would not work, upon looking at the code I saw that it was referring to a few time variables that no longer existed because meta trader had changed their names. The clue to this was the lack of color in the code syntax when looking at it in meta editor. MQL4.com confirmed they had updated the names.

If you are not a programmer then theres no point doing the above but those are a few problems I have encountered before.

OK, I think I've got it. Thanks for putting me on the right track.