Templates on the XAUUSD Charts Menu in the MT4 Platform
Templates option is provided within the charts menu on the MT4 trading platform. MT4 template is used by many traders to save their gold systems, this way they can load the system on a new chart direct from this template option without having to put the chart technical indicators one by one every time they open a new chart. MT4 Change Template - traders can also use these MetaTrader 4 template option to save more than one gold trading templates & they keep changing from one template to another when trading in MetaTrader 4 charts
The Templates Option on the MetaTrader 4 Software is Shown Below:
Save a XAUUSD System as a Template in MetaTrader 4 Platform
For example as a trader you might come up with a trading system shown below.
This trading system takes 5 minute to setup, It would take you 5 min to set it on every chart you open. But the MT4 chart template will save you this time by saving this gold trading system as a xauusd MetaTrader 4 template and to place this MetaTrader 4 chart template on another chart you only need to load the template on the MetaTrader 4 software.
To save the above gold system you'll open the templates button within the charts menu in MT4 and use the save template option.
After selecting the save template button the following popup will appear & you can save MetaTrader 4 chart template & give it a name as illustrated below.
The first step is to give the MetaTrader 4 chart template a name, we name our MetaTrader 4 template as tradeforextrading & click the save button key.
MT4 Change Template on MetaTrader 4
To load a template on the MT4 platform, go the charts menu on the MetaTrader 4 platform select the templates button and select the submenu item for load template. This will load the named template on to the new chart as displayed & shown below.
The named template on the MetaTrader 4 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 is using the "Load Template", which is the second option marked as "Load Template" on the template menu sub items on the MetaTrader 4.
MT4 Change Template Remove Template
The third option in the MetaTrader 4 template sub menus is the remove template; this sub menu item will remove any MT4 chart template that's loaded on the chart.