Standard Toolbar Menu and How to Customize it on MT5
The Standard Toolbar on the MT5 is shown below:
Before explaining how to use each tool listed on this standard toolbar, let's make sure that all the available buttons are added to it by customizing it:
- Right Click on the MetaTrader 5 toolbar customize button to the left as shown below
2. Click customize 3. Add all Tools
Add Tools
After Adding and customizing, it will look like:
On the platform, the standard MetaTrader 5 toolbar now looks like:
Explanation of Each XAUUSD Trading Tool on the Standard Toolbar
1: Opens a gold chart on the MT5 and a gold trader can specify which type of chart to open by clicking the drop down arrow next to its icon.
2: Profile - can be used to load a saved profile or to save a new profile: these options are provided as a sub-menu from the drop down arrow.
3: Opening and closing market watch window: market watch displays the gold trading quote xauusd prices for selected gold trading instruments.
4: Data window opens and closes and it displays xauusd price information as well as other information like indicator's information.
5: Navigator Shortcut, navigator displays Account information, indicators, scripts and Expert Advisors data.
6: Terminal window shortcut, displays the trade transactions opened by a gold trader - shows open trades, balance, MetaTrader 5 account equity, transaction history, news, Expert Advisors tab, signals tab and trade alerts tab.
7: Strategy tester opens the Gold Trading Strategy Tester and traders can test their Expert Advisors on this Gold Trading Strategy Tester environment.
8: Places a new order by opening a popup panel where as a gold trader you can specify the gold trading to buy, the amount to trade, and if the order will be a market order or set as a pending xauusd trade order.
9: Meta Editor opens the Meta Editor environment where a trader can add or program an Expert Advisor or a new indicator on this Meta Editor Environment.
10: Help, if you do not know something on the MetaTrader 5 click this and point on any MT5 object and get an explanation.
11: Options settings for editing the MT5 options that are used by your platform, these settings are the server settings and Expert Advisors settings found under the main navigation menu on tools menu, options submenu.
12: Full screen option for setting chart to full screen option, Short cut is Keyboard Key "F11"
13: Print Chart
14: Print Preview
15: Expert Advisors - activates and deactivating Expert Advisors on a xauusd chart, clicking this button changes color from green to red, green color means EA is allowed, red means EA execution not allowed.
Remove Buttons
As a gold trader you will not require all these buttons and you can hide some of them by clicking customize (shown above), then select some of the items on the right side panel and then select hide.
Remove the above tools by clicking on them and then clicking the remove button.
