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Exness Terminal — what the saved address carries (Tanzania)

A bookmark to the browser platform stores a way in, not a session: what travels in the address, and what stays behind.

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Saving the Exness Terminal means saving an address, and an address is a smaller object than it looks: it names the platform to load and carries nothing about who loads it. The same link handed to another person opens the same entry screen and their own account, never the account of whoever shared it — and it carries no charts, no layout and no open position with it.

The saved address, at a glance

ItemDetail
What a bookmark storesA way in, not a signed-in state
What travels in the addressThe platform to load, and nothing identifying
What another person gets from itThe same entry screen and their own account
What it leaves behindCharts, layout and anything already open

An address that loads a platform, not a page

An ordinary page address points at a document, and the document is what arrives. This address points at a program that the browser then runs, and what arrives is an empty frame that fills itself in afterwards. That difference is why the address is short and unremarkable while the screen it produces is not, and why a link saved months ago still opens the current version rather than the one that existed when it was saved.

Why the address stops changing once you are inside

On a normal site the address moves as the reader moves, so it can be copied at any point and sent to exactly that place. Here it does not: opening an instrument, arranging charts and placing an order all happen inside one loaded program, so the address after an hour of work is the same string it was at the start. It cannot be used to point a colleague at a chart, and it cannot be used to return to one. MetaTrader 5 and MetaTrader 4 are the installed alternatives, where the equivalent of a bookmark is a saved profile on the machine instead.

What the same link does on somebody else's device

Because the address carries nothing identifying, handing it over is a small act: the recipient reaches the same entry screen and then reaches their own account, not the account of whoever sent it. The reverse also holds — a link received from someone else is worth no more than the address bar it came from, so the domain is the only part of it that deserves a second look. On a phone, the alternative way in is the Exness Trade app on Android and iPhone & iPad; on a computer, see Exness for PC.

Saving the address so it opens where expected

  • Save the address of the platform itself rather than a screen reached from inside it — nothing deeper than the entry point is addressable.
  • Expect the saved link to ask who you are: the bookmark stores the way in, not the signed-in state behind it.
  • Treat the bookmark, not a link arriving from elsewhere, as the way back in — the address is the one part of the platform a reader controls.
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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 a bookmark to the browser platform actually save?
The address of the platform and nothing else. It stores a way in rather than a signed-in state, which is why it asks who you are each time it is opened.
Can the link be sent to another person safely?
The address carries nothing identifying, so a recipient reaches the same entry screen and then their own account. Nothing about the sender travels in the string.
Why does the address stay the same while working?
It names a program that the browser loads, not a document to display. Instruments, charts and orders all happen inside the loaded program, so the address does not move with them.
Is there a link that points at a particular chart?
No. Because nothing past the entry point is addressable, a chart cannot be bookmarked or sent, and returning to one is done inside the platform instead.
Does a link saved long ago still open the current platform?
Yes. The address names the platform rather than a version of it, so whatever loads is the current one.
How does this differ from an installed platform?
An installed platform keeps its entry point on the machine as a program, so there is no address to save or to share; the equivalent of a bookmark is a profile stored locally.

What a bookmark is actually holding

A bookmark looks like it saves a place, and for most of the web it does. Here it saves a string that names a platform, and that string is the whole of it. It contains no account number, no name and no indication that anyone has ever used it. Everything that identifies a reader lives elsewhere and is asked for again after the address has done its work.

This is why the link keeps working after long gaps, and why it keeps working on a machine that has never seen it. It is also why it stops short: it can put a reader at the door of the platform and nowhere further in.

Two things sit beside the bookmark and are frequently mistaken for part of it — the browser's own memory of the site, and the fact that a browser was signed in a moment ago. Both belong to the browser rather than to the address, and copying the address copies neither.

An address that names a program, not a document

The addresses most readers are used to end in something readable: an article, a section, a page of a list. Change the end of one and a different document arrives. That habit does not transfer here. The address names a platform to be loaded, and everything that happens after loading — instruments, charts, orders — happens inside the loaded program without the address moving.

The consequence is worth stating because it costs people time: there is no address for a chart. A colleague cannot be sent to the instrument on screen, and a reader cannot bookmark their way back to a layout. The equivalent of a saved position exists, but it lives with the account and the browser, not in the link.

The same property has an upside. Because the string never changes, it never goes stale, and a bookmark made once is the correct one indefinitely.

Handing the link to someone else

Sharing the address of a trading platform sounds like it should be a careless act, and the reason it is not is structural rather than a matter of discretion. The recipient loads the same platform and is then asked who they are. Whatever they reach afterwards is theirs. Nothing about the sender travels in the string.

The reverse direction is where attention is worth spending. A link that arrives from a message rather than from a bookmark is only as trustworthy as the domain written in it, and the address bar is the one place that can be read before anything is typed. Reading it is a two-second habit that the design of the platform makes possible precisely because the address is short and never changes.

For a reader who wants a way in that does not depend on links at all, the installed platforms described on the download page keep their entry point on the machine instead.

In the link, or somewhere else entirely

ThingTravels in the addressWhere it actually lives
Which platform loadsYesThe address itself
Who is signed inNoAsked for after loading
The instrument on screenNoInside the loaded program
Chart arrangementNoThe account and the browser
Open positionsNoThe account record
A previous sessionNoThe browser, until it is cleared

Only the first row survives being copied into a message; everything below it stays where it was.

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