Periodicity on Charts Menu in MT4

MetaTrader 4 Chart Timeframe: Periodicity on Charts in MT4

Periodicity is often known as Chart Timeframes by many traders. On the MetaTrader 4 platform.

The button below is used to select the periodicity or chart timeframe to trade with. This button can be accessed on the MetaTrader 4 platform as cited below.

MT4 Chart Timeframes

On MetaTrader 4 platform these chart timeframes are:

1 Minute Time Frame - M1
5 Minutes Timeframe - M5
15 Minutes Time-frame - M15
30 Min Time-frame - M30
1 Hour Timeframe - H1
4 Hours Chart Timeframe - H4
Daily Chart Timeframe - D1
Weekly Chart Timeframe - W1
Monthly Timeframe - MN

How to Know Which Time-frame You are Using

A common question especially if you are new to gold trading would be how to identify which chart timeframe you are using on your MetaTrader 4 platform:

There are various methods of knowing which MT4 chart timeframe you are using as Shown below:

Use the Menu above as Shown above

In the above example once you choose the periodicity button under the charts menu, then the listing of MT4 chart timeframes is shown and the chart timeframe that's currently selected, the one that you are using will be high-lighted with a different colour, on our example illustration above this is the 1 Hour(H1) time frame, whose Icon on the left is high lighted in light blue.

MT4 Gold Chart Change Chart Timeframe - How to Change MT4 Gold Chart Time-Frame

This MT4 periodicity toolbar is by default located at the top of the MetaTrader 4 platform and has all the chart timeframes highlighted as cited below. The chart timeframe that a trader is using will be marked differently from the other chart timeframes, the chosen chart timeframe will be "indented" as shown below:

Use the data displayed at the tops left corner to get MT4 Gold Chart Time-Frame

At the top left corner of the MT4 chart, MT4 chart timeframe is highlighted as cited below:

1 Hour MetaTrader 4 Gold Chart Timeframe

15 Minute MT4 Gold Timeframe

When you open a chart you as a trader can then use above three methods to know which periodicity - chart timeframe you're trading with.

You can also use the tabs, if you're trading many charts. To view this tab, Go to "View Menu" then Choose "Charts Bar". The following MT4 bar then will appear that you can use to navigate & it indicates the chart as well as the chart timeframe.

Navigation tabs in MetaTrader 4 workspace.

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