Opening an Offline Chart on MT5

In MT5 you may want to open an offline chart and analyze this chart without having it updating in real time. Although it is not often that a gold trader wants to open an offline chart, This MetaTrader 5 option is provided for in the MT5 Gold Trading Platform.

Shown below, the File Navigation drop down menu the second option is that of opening an offline chart.

Once a gold trader clicks the open offline chart a popup window will appear, a gold trader can then select which offline chart to open from this pop up menu.

From the above popup menu a gold trader can then open any offline chart that is listed above, the number of xauusd price bars that have been saved within a specific offline saved xauusd trading chart is recorded as the number of price bars as well as the date from which the xauusd trading chart is saved up to the last moment that it got updated.

This MetaTrader 5 option is not required so much in trading but it is good to explain it for tutorial purposes.