You’ve just bought, for a reasonable amount of cash, an expert advisor to run your MetaTrader – it’s going to give you cast-iron signals about when to open and close trades, it’ll run automated, it may make you $10,000 in 100 days of forex trading, or so they say…

But, as it so happens, unless you’ve been the first one to buy a very unpopular piece of software – a few other copies of this EA have been sold.
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Found this, which is good for one way of providing an audible alert when the currency pair price reaches a given level of profit/loss.

You’ll need to download audioplus.mq4 file below, and save to your MetaTrader\Experts\ directory.
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To clarify, further to our quick tutorial on installing mq4 files in MetaTrader – if you’ve downloaded an expert advisor or forex indicator or similar that is in the form of a ex4 file, it’s even easier.
All you have to do here is find the right folder and copy the file to it.

For example, it’s most likely your Metatrader is at C:\Program Files\MetaTrader, so all you need do here is drop it into

C:\Program Files\MetaTrader\experts

if it’s a downloaded expert advisor, or

C:\Program Files\MetaTrader\experts\indicators

if it’s an indicator and it should all show up next time you run MetaTrader.
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It’s easy to include add-ons into MetaTrader – indicators, expert advisors (EAs), and other scripts, customising it to your particular requirements - this makes the software very flexible and is probably the main reason it currently leads the field. But what, why, and how?
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