Customizing and Arranging Charts Toolbars on MT4
Charts Tool bars are the most widely used tools in the MT4 platform. Therefore, the name tool-bars: meaning a list in bar format of the most oftenly used tools in the platform. These are used mostly for trading, placing indicators, placing technical analysis indicators, placing Expert-Advisors or plotting line studies.
There are 4 main ones are displayed and illustrated below.
Names of Toolbars
There are 4 main tool bars, these are named:
- Standard
- Charts
- Line Studies
- Periodicity
These are listed below:
All these 4 will be covered in different tutorials, However, for now let's look at How to Customize These Bars.
How to Customize
For customizing, a trader can either move the tool-bar to a different location, maybe a little to the left or to the right. Or another option is to add or remove buttons from its list.
Moving a Tool Bar on Silver Trading Software
To move, follow procedure below:
Step 1: Click & Hold Down Mouse Button Key at the position Shown below.
Step 2: While still holding down the mouse button, drag the mouse to position 2 as displayed below and release the mouse button key, this will move the tool bar to the new position (position 2.)
Adding Buttons to XAGUSD Trading Platform
Step1: Right Click the customize button as Shown Below:
Next Step: For this Examples we shall use the Customize Popup Panel
After clicking customize as illustrated above, the following pop-up appears:
Step1: Choose Any Tool on the Left, To add it Click insert button key on the middle as displayed above.
For example selecting Silver Trading Fibonacci Expansion and clicking insert will add this indicator on the Right side Window named 'Selected'
To move the indicator up or down use UP or DOWN Button Keys on the right side, shown above:
The Tool bar will now look like:
Customizing Tool Bars : If there is any tool that is not placed on the list, you can use this option to add it to the list, just like the above example where Silver Trading Fibonacci Expansion was not listed & now it has been added. If you don't know where an item is located & on which toolbar, right-click on customize button key on left side of any of the four toolbars, & view list of all the names of all items that can be added, these will be on left window on this customize window.
Also you can remove some tools, ones you don't use, in order to save on the space also, for example if you trade only with 15 minute, 1 Hour & 4 Hour charts, you can hide all the other timeframes on the Periodicity bar & remaining with only these Three time-frames.
