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Exness Terminal — What the Tab Remembers, and What It Does Not — the Philippines

Part of the workspace belongs to the account and comes back on its own; the rest belongs to the tab and leaves with it.

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A browser platform has no folder on the machine to keep a profile in, so a workspace built inside a tab has three possible fates rather than one. Account settings are kept by the account and are the same in any browser on any machine. Browser-stored preferences last as long as that browser profile does and vanish with a cleared cache, a private window or a new laptop. Session state lasts until the tab closes. Knowing which of the three a given setting belongs to is the difference between a setup that gets repeated on purpose and one that gets rebuilt in irritation every visit.

A browser tab is a workspace that gets thrown away. Some of what is set inside it survives the next visit, some of it is gone the moment the tab closes, and some of it was never going to be kept at all — which means part of a web setup is not a thing to do once, but a thing to repeat.

The browser tab, at a glance

ItemDetail
TypeWeb platform (browser)
InstallNone
Works onWindows, macOS, Linux, mobile browsers
Downloadable alternativeMetaTrader 5 / MetaTrader 4

Three kinds of setting, only one of them permanent

Everything adjusted in a browser platform falls into one of three buckets, and the buckets behave completely differently. Account settings are kept by the account and are identical wherever it is opened. Browser-stored preferences are kept by this browser profile on this machine and last exactly as long as it does. Session state — the arrangement that exists only while the tab is alive — lasts until the tab is closed and not one second longer.

The frustration people report with web platforms is almost never about the third bucket being small. It is about not knowing which bucket a given setting is in, so effort gets spent arranging things that were always going to be discarded, and no effort gets spent on the things that would have been kept. Sorting the buckets once is what turns a browser workspace from irritating into predictable.

What survives a closed tab, and what does not

Because there is no installation, there is also no folder on the machine holding a profile. That single fact drives everything else on this page: a desktop platform keeps its arrangement in files that survive a restart, and a browser keeps whatever it can inside a profile that a cleared cache, a private window or a different machine will discard without warning.

The account itself is untouched by any of it. Balances, open positions and history are account facts and are complete the moment a sign-in succeeds. What is being rebuilt on each visit is the arrangement around them, and it is worth knowing in advance how much of that there is.

Why the same account behaves differently in a tab

The difference that matters here is not what has to be installed, but where the workspace is kept. MetaTrader 5 and MetaTrader 4 keep their charts, templates and symbol lists as files on the machine, so nothing has to be rebuilt at the start of a session. A tab has nowhere equivalent to put them. The account behind both is the same one, and neither platform changes anything about it.

When a tab is the wrong place for it

For phones, the Exness Trade app is on Android and iPhone & iPad; for a computer, see Exness for PC.

Setting a tab up in the order that saves time

  • Sign in first and read which account the workspace is pointing at, before arranging anything around a number that may belong somewhere else.
  • Arrange the instruments and the chart, and treat that arrangement as something that will have to be repeated rather than something that has been done.
  • Before closing the tab, note anything worth keeping in a place the browser does not own. Rebuilding from a note is faster than rebuilding from memory.
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Frequently asked questions

Do I need to download the Exness Terminal?
No. It is a web platform that runs in the browser, so there is nothing to install.
What devices does the Exness Terminal work on?
Any device with a browser — Windows, macOS, Linux and mobile.
Exness Terminal or MetaTrader — what is the difference?
The web terminal starts without a download; MetaTrader 5 and MetaTrader 4 are the downloadable platforms with more advanced tools. Both use the same Exness account.
Is the Exness Terminal free to use?
Yes. It is available to Exness account holders at no cost.
What does the Exness Terminal keep between visits?
Account facts always: balance, open positions, history and the list of accounts under the login. Browser-stored preferences usually, for as long as that browser profile survives. The arrangement inside the tab itself, not at all.
Why does the browser platform forget a chart setup?
Because there is no installation, so there is no folder on the machine to keep a profile in. A desktop platform stores its arrangement in files; a tab has nowhere equivalent, so anything not stored by the browser ends when the page does.
Does a private or incognito window keep anything?
No. It starts blank every time by design, so every visit is a first visit. That is useful when it is what you want and merely confusing when it is not.
Is anything actually lost when the tab is closed?
Arrangement, never position. Open trades, balance and history belong to the account and are complete on the next sign-in from any machine, including one that has never been used before.
Which part of a web setup is worth spending time on?
The part that will be repeated. A short symbol list, one chart and one interval are quick to rebuild; an elaborate layout is not, and a browser gives no guarantee it will still be there tomorrow.
When is a downloadable platform the better answer?
When the workspace itself has to persist. MetaTrader 5 and MetaTrader 4 keep templates and layouts as files on the machine; the browser terminal is for starting from any machine at all, and it charges a few minutes of arranging for that.

The part that cannot be kept at all

Some of a workspace is not a setting in any sense that could be stored: the scroll position on a chart, which panel had focus, the half-finished order ticket, the instrument that happened to be selected. That state lives in the page while the page is alive and ends with it.

This is not a shortcoming of any particular platform; it is what a tab is. The mistake is not that it disappears but that people spend attention arranging it as though it were permanent, and then feel the loss every session.

The useful response is to stop treating arrangement as setup. Anything belonging to this bucket should be quick to recreate — a short symbol list, one chart, one interval — because it will be recreated, whether or not that was planned for.

The part that survives until the browser is cleaned

Preferences a browser is allowed to store do come back on the next visit, which is why a web platform can feel like it remembers. The catch is what that memory is attached to: one browser profile on one machine.

A cleared cache erases it. A private window never had it. A second browser on the same laptop behaves like a first visit, and so does the same browser on a different laptop. None of that is a fault and none of it is announced, which is why the loss always feels like a bug.

Treat this bucket as convenience with a short warranty. It is worth having and it is not worth depending on, and a setup that would be painful to lose does not belong here.

The part that was never in the browser to begin with

Balance, open positions, order history, the account type and the list of accounts under the login are account facts. No tab holds them, no cache clears them and no new machine has to be told about them; they are complete the moment a sign-in succeeds.

This is the half worth being clear about, because it is what makes the rest tolerable. What is lost when a tab closes is arrangement, never position — and the two feel similar in the moment while being entirely different in consequence.

It also sets the honest boundary of a browser platform. Where a workspace genuinely needs to persist, the answer is a platform that keeps files on a machine, and MT5 or MT4 exist for that. Where the point is being able to start on any machine at all, the tab is the right tool and the repetition is the price it charges.

Three buckets: what comes back, and how reliably

Part of the workspaceKept byBack on the next visit?
Balance, open positions, historyThe accountAlways, on any machine
Which accounts exist under the loginThe accountAlways, on any machine
Browser-stored preferencesThis browser profileUsually — until the cache is cleared
Chart arrangement inside the tabThe page while it is openNo
Scroll position, focus, a part-typed ticketThe page while it is openNo
A private or incognito windowNothing at allNo — it starts blank every time

The two account rows are the reason nothing is ever really lost. The rest is the reason a web session starts with a few minutes of arranging.

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