Templates on the Charts Menu in The MT4 Commodities Trading Platform
Templates option is provided within the charts menu on the MT4 platform. The MT4 template is used by many traders to save their commodity systems, this way they can load the commodity system on a new chart direct from this template option without having to put the chart technical indicators one by one every time they open a new chart. MetaTrader 4 Change Template - traders can also use these MT4 template option to save more than one commodity templates and they keep changing from one template to another when trading in the MetaTrader 4 charts
The Templates Option in MetaTrader 4 Software is Shown Below:
Save a Commodity System as a Template on the MT4 Software
For example as a trader you may come up with a trading system described below.
This system takes 5 minutes to set up, It would take you 5 min to set it on every commodity chart you open. But the MT4 chart template will save you this time by saving this commodity system as a commodity MT4 template and to place this MT4 chart template on another chart you only need to load the template on the MetaTrader 4 platform.
To save the above commodity system you will open the templates button within the charts menu in MetaTrader 4 platform & use the save template option.
After choosing the save template button key the following pop up will appear & you as a trader can use save the MetaTrader 4 chart template and give it a name as shown below.
First step is to give MetaTrader 4 chart template a name, we name our MT4 template as tradeforextrading & click the save button key.
Load a Template on MT4 Software
To load a template on the MT4 platform, go the charts menu on the MT4 platform select the templates button and select the submenu item for load template. This will load the named template on to the new chart as displayed & shown below.
The named template on the MT4 platform is shown on the list above: this is a short cut for the available templates that have been saved on the MT4 software. Another option is using the 'Load Template', which is the second option marked as 'Load Template' on the template menu sub items on the MT4.
Remove Template on MetaTrader 4 Software
The third option in the MT4 template sub menus is the remove template; this sub menu item will remove any MT4 chart template that is loaded on the chart.