Indicators Insert Option in MT4 Insert Menu - Meta Trader 4 Indicators
MT4 indicators, MT4 Technical Indicators can be found on the Insert Menu as a first option.
These best MT4 Indicators option has a pop right button which shows the list of all the MT4 indicators under this option as illustrated below.
The best MT4 indicators list is shown below as a popup menu, at the top is a list of the Meta Trader 4 technical indicators most popularly used within the Meta Trader 4 forex platform by the traders using this MetaTrader 4 platform. This MT4 forex indictors list, which vary from platform to platform depending on the forex platform being used.
Commonly Used MT4 Indicators in the Example Above - Best MT4 Indicators List
On the above examples the most oftenly used MetaTrader 4 Indicators, these are:
- Accelerator Oscillator
- Accumulation/Distribution
- Alligator
- Average Directional Movement Index
- Average True Range Indicator
- Awesome Oscillator
Forex Trading Trend Based
These are shown and illustrated below:
These are:
- Average Directional Movement Index
- Bollinger Bands Indicator
- Commodity Channel Index
- Moving Average Indicator
- Parabolic SAR
- Standard Deviation
The Forex Trend Based Technical Indicators will basically show the general direction of the FX market. These trend indicators will either move upward in an upwards forex trend or downward in a downwards trend. (Or Sideways no direction /no forex trend).
A trader will therefore trade with the direction that is the same as that indicated by these forex trend following indicators.
Oscillators
These Oscillators are displayed and illustrated below:
These Forex Indicators are:
- Average True Range Indicator
- Bears Power
- Bulls Power
- DeMarker
- Envelopes
- Force Index
- Ichimoku Kinko Hyo Indicator
- MACD
- Momentum
- Moving Average of Oscillator
- Relative Strength Index
- Relative Vigor Index
- Stochastic Indicator
- Williams Percent Range
Volume Based
These are shown below:
These forex volume indicators are:
- Accumulation/Distribution
- Money Flow Index
- On Balance Volume
- Volumes
Volume in Forex don't measure the transaction volume as there is no central forex market like stocks market, but they measure the tick volume, more tick volume the more the number of forex trade transaction, therefore forex traders use tick volumes to estimate the forex transaction volumes in the Forex Exchange Market.
Bill William
The Meta Trader 4 Bill Williams Indicators are shown below, these were created by Bill Williams hence their grouping as Bill William:
The Bill Williams Indicators are:
- Accelerator Oscillator
- Alligator
- Awesome Oscillator
- Fractals
- Gator Oscillator
- Market Facilitation Index
Forex Trading Custom Indicators - Best MT4 Custom Indicators
These forex custom technical indicators are shown below,
The Custom Technical Indicators are:
- Accelerator
- Accumulation
- Alligator
- ATR
- Awesome Oscillator
- Bollinger Band Indicator
- Bears Power
- Bulls Power
- CCI
- Heiken Ashi
- Ichimoku Kinko Hyo Indicator
- iExposure
- MACD
- Momentum
- Moving Averages Forex Trading Indicator
- OsMA
- Parabolic SAR
- RSI
- Stochastic Indicator
- Zigzag
The Sub Menu, within the MT4 Indicators Insert Menu can be used to place these MT4 Indicators on a forex chart by choosing and then clicking on the Meta Trader 4 Chart Indicator to place it on the forex chart.
Once you click on an MT4 indicator the following pop-up will appear:
As a trader you can just click 'OK' button key to place the MT4 Indicator on the forex chart.
You can also change a few MT4 Indicators setting, for example in the above MT4 Indicator you can set the color style to blue, change the line width and change the period used to calculate the Meta Trader 4 Technical Indicator settings.
A level can also be added by selecting 'Levels' button key as shown and illustrated below:
To add a level on a MetaTrader 4 indicator, just click the add button & choose the level where you want to add this zones, normally this is set as a number. The color of the level can also be changed on the style button key marked silver along with the format of the line & the width of the line.
The next button illustrated below, visualization button is used to determine which forex chart time frame the MT4 indicator should appear on:
By default a forex Meta Trader 4 technical indicator is set to appear on all the forex chart time frames, but you can untick the "All Time-Frames" option and select fewer forex chart time frames where you want the MT4 indicator to appear on, for example by choosing only the M15, H1 and H4, this way it won't appear on any other forex chart apart from these 3 forex chart time frames - to have it show on all forex chart time frames just check the "All Time frames" option. Learn MT4 Technical Indicators PDF - Indicators MT4 Platform
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