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Periodicity Toolbar Menu for Gold Charts- Chart Time Frames on MT5

Periodicity just means chart time frames, in MT5 this toolbar is used to select which chart time frames to trade with.

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The time frames listed are:

  1. 1 Minute - M1
  2. 5 Minute - M5
  3. 15 Minutes - M15
  4. 30 Minutes - M30
  5. 1 Hour - H1
  6. 4 Hours - H4
  7. Daily - D1
  8. Weekly - W1
  9. Monthly - MN

As a gold trader you only require to trade with only about 3 chart time frames, for example let's say a gold trader only requires the 15 minute, the 1 hour and the 4 hours time frame, then on the periodicity MetaTrader 5 toolbar a gold trader can hide all the others that are not required using the following method.

How to Customize

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

  1. Right Click at the MetaTrader 5 toolbar button to the left (Looks like a stack of coins), shown below

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2. Click customize

After following the above steps the customize popup window will appear as shown below:

Select Chart Timeframes and Remove Them from the Periodicity Toolbar in MT5 - Gold Trading Software MetaTrader 5 Periodicity Toolbar Menu - Chart Time Frames MT5

Select as shown above and click the remove button.

The popup window will then look like:

Chart Time Frames Removed from Periodicity Toolbar in MT5 - XAUUSD Trading Software MT5 Periodicity Toolbar Menu - XAUUSD Trading Chart Time Frames XAUUSD Trading Platform

On the platform the periodicity MetaTrader 5 toolbar will now look like the example shown below:

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Using the above setup as a gold trader you can save space within your MT5 Gold Trading Platform workspace by hiding the time frames which you are not trading with.