What is MetaTrader 4 Charts Tabs?

When you open many charts on the MT4 gold platform, these xauusd charts are arranged in navigation tabs bar just below the MetaTrader 4 gold chart workspace as pictured below.

If on your MetaTrader 4 software this display bar isn't highlighted - as in the examples shown above - you can follow the following procedure to show this MetaTrader 4 bar as well as these MT4 tabs.

On the "View" menu drop down list option, the fourth button is named "Charts Bar" as pictured above. To view this display bar on the MetaTrader 4 platform just click and check or tick this button and the it will appear as shown below displaying all the open charts as tabs that one can use to open any of these listed charts.

Once you tick this option the MT4 bar appears and this MetaTrader 4 bar also has right and left arrows that a trader can use to scroll to the left or to the right and navigate other open charts from this MT4 bar.

These MT4 gold chart tabs are used to organize all the open charts in MetaTrader 4 platform in an orderly manner. This MT4 tab also gives the trader easy access to any chart that they may have opened.

As the trader continues to open more charts, this MT4 Bar of chart tabs adds navigation arrows to the right and to the left of this MT4 bar, this way a trader can scroll to the left or to the right of this MetaTrader 4 bar of chart tabs until they find the chart that they want to trade.

For ease of navigation each tab on this MT4 bar also shows the xauusd chart timeframe for which this particular chart is set for. The last MetaTrader 4 Tab does not show the xauusd chart time frame and a trader has to use the right and left scroll arrow buttons next to this tab to navigate. Once the trader reaches one end that arrow is then grayed out - as pictured above, the right arrow scroll button above is grayed because the first chart - gold chart is the first chart on the right side of this MT4 bar.