Grid, Volumes, Auto Scroll and MT4 Chart Shift Options in MetaTrader 4
Grid - MT4 Grid
The MetaTrader 4 grid button on the charts menu option of the MT4 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 MT4 Grid button key is displayed below (Short-cut for this menu is Ctrl+G)
Volumes - MT4 Volumes Indicator
Volumes in Forex represent tick volumes or the number of times the tick for 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 candlestick, & height of these green bars represent tick volume for a particular candlestick. ( Shotcut keys for Volumes: Ctrl+L )
Auto Scroll - MT4 Auto Scroll
Auto scroll option when activated will automatically scroll to the most recent candlestick 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 - MT4 Charts Shift
This MT4 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 MetaTrader 4 software, the MetaTrader 4 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 MT4 Charts Shift button is shown below as an arrow pointing down, by pressing this MetaTrader 4 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 MT4 Charts Shift examples shown below.
MT4 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 MT4 charts shift button for shifting the last candle toward the center.
