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Today we are going to study one of the most important and heavily used window in MetaTrader. It's the Terminal window.

The Terminal window is a tabbed window contains a lot of functions that enables you do a lot of tasks; You can manage/view your trades from the Trade tab, you can view the history of your account trades from the Account History tab, you can read the news sent by your broker from the News tab, you can manage the alerts in the Alerts tab, you can read the messages sent by your broker and reply them from the Mailbox tab, you can know what's going on with your trades and your program from the Experts & Journal tabs.

Access the Terminal window:

The Terminal window (and all the windows of MetaTrader) by default is shown (not closed) the first time you install and run the MetaTrader.
You can close this window any time you want and show it.

Closing the Terminal window:

You can close the Terminal window using one of these methods:

1- By clicking the little x button located at the top left corner of the Terminal window (Figure 2).
2- Hitting the hotkey CTRL+T (the same hotkey used to show the terminal window).
3- Un-checking the Terminal window command in View menu (Figure 3).
4- Clicking the Terminal window button on the standard toolbar (figure 4).

Showing the Terminal window:

You can show the Terminal window using one of these methods:

1- Hitting the hotkey CTRL+T.
2- Checking the Terminal window command in View menu (Figure 3).
3- Clicking the Terminal window button on the standard toolbar (figure 4).

Note: The button of Terminal window on the toolbar called Check button which means clicking it first time make it checked and clicking it again making it unchecked. See figure 5 and 6 to notice how it looks like when it checked and when it unchecked.