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Line Studies Toolbar Menu on MT5

Sometimes traders will say "oh, I can not find Fibo expansion tool on my MT5 where can I get it?"

The thing is that all these line studies are located on the line studies tool bar: however, by default not all are set to display, therefore a trader must know where to get these trading tools that are not shown by default on the MT5 Gold Platform. So how can a trader add a tool, to the line studies MT5 toolbar shown below?

Gold Trading Platform MetaTrader 5 Gold Trading Line Studies Toolbar Menu

Customize a Toolbar on XAUUSD Trading Platform

To add a tool not listed above a trader has to follow these steps

  1. Right Click at the MetaTrader 5 tool bar button key to the left of this (Looks like a stack of coins) as displayed below

Toolbar Menu and Customizing Toolbar Menu in MT5 Platform

3. Click customize 4. Add all Tools

The following customize pop up window will appear:

Gold Trading Platform MetaTrader 5 Gold Trading Line Studies Toolbar Menu - Customizing XAUUSD Trading Toolbars

Choose all the tools from the left window and add them: After adding this will look like:

Customizing XAUUSD Trading Toolbar Menu in MetaTrader 5 Platform

The MT5 tool bar will now look like:

XAUUSD Trading Software MT5 XAUUSD Trading Line Studies Toolbar Menu - XAUUSD Trading MT5 Toolbar

Explanations of Each Tool

The following is the explanation of each tool on this tool bar.

Customizing and Arranging XAUUSD Trading Toolbars in MT5 Platform

1: Select mouse as cursor, change mouse to the default cursor

2: Choose Cross Hair cursor, a type of cursor that maps coordinates to the axis of the charts

3: Draw a vertical line

4: Draw a Horizontal line

5: Draw a gold trend line

6: Equidistant Channel

7: Fibonacci Retracement

8: Text button

9: Text Label Button Key

10: Fibonacci Expansion

11: gold trend by Angle

12: Linear Regression Channel

13:Standard Deviations Channel

14: Gann Lines

15: Gann Fan

16: Gann Grid

17: Fibonacci Time zones

18: Fib Fan

19: Fibo Arc

20: Cycle Lines

21: Andrew's Pitchfork

22: Insert Ellipse

23: Insert Triangle

24: Insert Rectangle

25: Fibonacci Channels

26: Draw Arrows

How to Remove Tools from Gold Trading Software

As a trader you will not require all these button keys and you can hide some of them by clicking the customize button key, then select some of the items on the right window and then select hide.

XAUUSD Platform MetaTrader 5 XAUUSD Trading Line Studies Toolbar Menu - Customizing XAUUSD Trading Toolbar Menu in MT5 Platform

Remove the above tools by clicking on them & then clicking the remove button, so as to save space on your MT5 Gold Trading Platform workspace.