Grid, Volumes, Auto Scroll & MT4 Chart Shift Options in MT4 Platform
MT4 Grid
The MT4 grid button on the charts menu option of the MetaTrader 4 Software is used to draw grid lines just as illustrated and shown below. One may prefer to trade with grids on the chart or not and will use this button key to explain or hide the Grid.
The MT4 Grid button is illustrated below (Shortcut for this menu is Ctrl+G)
MT4 Volumes Indicator
Volumes in Gold represent tick volumes or the number of times the tick for price changes during a particular time period. The greater the tick shifts the greater the volumes. These volumes in Gold are used to estimate the number of traders who participate in the market.
Volumes are plotted as green bars below each candlestick, and the height of these green bars represents the tick volume for a particular stick. (Short-cut button for Volumes : Ctrl+L)
MT4 Auto Scroll
Auto scroll when it's activated will automatically scroll to most current gold candle bar for every chart that is opened. Therefore, the most recent information is displayed and as a trader you don't have to scroll to these recent gold candle bars every time you open a new chart.
MT4 Charts Shift
This MT4 Chart Shift button is used to shift the chart more towards the center, instead of the last candlestick being right at the right side of the MetaTrader 4 platform software, MT4 chart shift button will shift the most recent gold candle-stick towards the center. Traders prefer to trade with recent most gold candle-stick shifted toward the mid - this makes it easier to analyze and interpret the chart price moves when they are more towards the center.
For example illustration, the MT4 Charts Shift button is cited below as an arrow pointing down, by pressing this MT4 charts shift button within chart menus(highlighted below by a rectangle), the last candlestick will shift from the right and move up to this point just as displayed and shown in the MetaTrader 4 Charts Shift examples illustrated and shown below.
MetaTrader 4 charts menu options of showing grids, volumes & activating the auto scroll option for the automatic scrolling to the most recent candlestick bar and also the MT4 charts shift button for moving the last candlestick toward the center.
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