Grid, Volumes, Auto Scroll and MT5 Chart Shift Options in MT5 Software

Grid - MT5 Grid

The MT5 grid button on the charts menu option of the MT5 Forex Platform is used to draw grid lines as shown below. A trader may prefer to trade with grids on the forex chart or not and will use this button key to explain or hide the Grid.

The MT5 Grid button is shown below (Shortcut for this menu is Ctrl+G)

Volumes - MT5 Volumes Indicator

Volumes in Forex represent tick volumes or the number of times the tick for forex price changes during a particular time period. The more the tick changes the more the volumes. These volumes in Forex are used to estimate the number of forex traders participating in the market.

Volumes are drawn as green bars below each candle, and height of these green bars represent tick volume for a particular candlestick. ( Shotcut keys for Volumes: Ctrl+L )

Auto Scroll - MT5 Auto Scroll

Auto scroll option when activated will automatically scroll to the most recent candle stick bar for every forex chart that is opened. Therefore, most recent information is displayed and as a trader you don't have to scroll to these recent candle stick bars every time you open a new forex chart.

Chart Shift - MT5 Charts Shift

This MT5 Charts Shift button is used to shift the forex chart more towards the center, instead of the last candlestick being right at the right side of the MT5 platform, the MT5 charts shift button will shift the most recent candlestick towards the center. Forex traders prefer to trade with most recent candlestick shifted toward the middle - this makes it easier to analyze the forex chart price movements when they are more towards the center.

For example, the MT5 Charts Shift button is shown below as an arrow pointing down, by pressing this MT5 charts shift button within the chart menus(highlighted below by a rectangle), the last candlestick will shift from the right and move up to this point as shown in the MT5 Charts Shift examples illustrated below.

MT5 charts menu options of showing grids, volumes and activating the auto scroll option for automatic scrolling to the most recent candlestick bar and also the MT5 charts shift button for shifting the last candlestick toward the center.