Templates on the Charts Menu in The MT4 Forex Platform

Templates option is provided within the charts menu on the MT4 trading platform. MT4 template is used by many traders to save their trading systems, this way they can load the system on a new chart directly from this template option without having to put the forex chart indicators one by one every time they open a new chart. MT4 Change Template - traders can also use these MT4 template option to save more than one forex trading templates & they keep changing from one template to another when trading on MT4 charts

The Templates Option in MT4 Software is Shown Below:

Save a System as a Template on the MT4 Software

For example as a trader you might come up with a Forex trading system shown below.

This trading system takes 5 minute to setup, It would take you 5 minutes to set it on every forex chart you open. But MT4 chart template will save you this time by saving this trading system as a forex MT4 template and to place this MT4 chart template on another forex chart you only need to load the template on the MT4 software.

To save the above trading system you will open the templates button within the charts menu in MT4 platform & use the save template option.

After selecting the save template button key the following pop-up will appear and you can save the MT4 chart template & give it a name as shown and illustrated below.

First step is to give the MT4 chart template a name, we name our MT4 template as tradeforextrading & click the save button key.

Load a Template in MT4 - MT4 Change Template on Forex MT4 Platform

To load a template on the MT4 platform, go the charts menu on the MT4 platform select the templates button and select the submenu item for load template. This will load the named template on to the new forex chart as shown below.

The named template on the MT4 platform is shown on the list above: this is a short cut for the available templates that have been saved on the MT4 platform. Another option can be to use the 'Load Template', which is the second option marked as 'Load Template' on the template menu sub items on the MT4.

Remove Template in MetaTrader 4 - MT4 Change Template Remove Template

The third option in the MT4 template sub menus is the remove template; this sub menu item will remove any MT4 chart template that is loaded on the forex chart.