Grid, Volume, AutoScroll and MT4 Trading Chart Shift Options on MT4 Software

Grid

The MT4 grid button on the charts menu option of the MT4 Trading Platform is used to draw grid lines as shown and illustrated below. One might prefer to trade with grids on the chart or not and will use this button key to show or hide the Grid.

The MT4 Grid button key is displayed below (Shortcut for this menu is Ctrl+G)

Volumes

Volumes in Commodity Trading represent tick volumes or the number of times the tick for price changes during a particular time period. The more the tick changes the more the volumes. These volumes in Commodity Trading are used to estimate the number of commodity traders participating in the market.

Volumes are drawn as green bars below each candle, and the height of these green bars represent the tick volume for a particular candlestick. (Shot cut key for Volumes : Ctrl+L)

Auto Scroll

Auto scroll option when activated will automatically scroll to the most recent candlestick bar for every chart that is opened. Therefore, the most recent information is displayed and as a trader you do not have to scroll to these recent candle bars every time you open a new commodities chart.

Trading Chart Shift

This MetaTrader 4 Trading Charts Shift button is used to shift the chart more towards the center, instead of the last candlestick being right at the right side of the MT4 trading platform, the MT4 commodity charts shift button will shift the most recent candle towards the center. traders prefer to trade with most recent candle shifted toward the middle - this makes it easier to analyze the chart commodities price movements when they are more towards the center.

For example, MetaTrader 4 Trading Charts Shift button is pictured below as an arrow pointing down, by pressing this MT4 commodity charts shift button key within the chart menus(highlighted below by a rectangle), the last candlestick will shift from the right and move up to this point as shown in the MT4 Trading Charts Shift example illustrated below.

MT4 charts menu options of showing grids, volumes and activating the auto scroll option for automatic scrolling to the most recent candlestick bar and also the MT4 commodity charts shift button for shifting the last candle towards the center.