Customizing and Arranging Charts Tool Bars on MetaTrader 4

Charts Tool Bars are the most widely used tools in the MT4 platform. Hence, the name tool bars: meaning a listing in bar format of the most commonly used tools in the trading software. These are used mostly for trading, placing trading indicators, placing analysis indicators, placing Automated Expert-Advisors or drawing line studies.

There are 4 main ones are shown below.

Names of Tool Bars

There are 4 main tool-bars, these are named:

1. Standard
2. Charts
3. Line Studies
4. Periodicity

These are listed below:

All these Four will be covered in different guides, However, for now let's look at How to Customize These Bars.

How to Customize

To customize, 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 Software

To move, follow the steps highlighted below:

Step 1: Click and Hold Down Mouse Button Key at position Shown below.

Step 2: While still holding down the mouse button, drag the mouse to position 2 as shown below and release the mouse button, this will move the tool-bar to the new position (position 2.)

Adding Buttons to Trading Platform

Step1: Right Click the customize button as Shown Below:

Next Step: For this Example we shall use the Customize Pop-up Window Panel

After clicking customize as illustrated above, the following popup pops up:

Step1: Select Any Tool on Left, To add it Click insert button key on the middle as shown above.

For example choosing Fib Expansion and pressing insert will add this technical indicator in the Right side Panel named 'Chosen'

To move the technical indicator up or down use UP or DOWN Button Keys on right side, illustrated above:

The Tool-Bar will now look like:

Customizing Tool Bars : If there is any tool that isn't placed on the list, you can use this option to add it to the list, just like the above example where Fibonacci Expansion wasn't listed and now it has been added. If you do not know where an item is located & on which tool-bar, right click on customize button key on the left side of any of the four tool bars, & view listing of all the names of all items that can be added, these will be on the left side panel on the customize panel.

Also you can remove some tools, the ones you don't use, so as to save on space also, for example if you trade only with 15 minute, 1 Hour and 4 Hour charts, you can hide all other time frames on Periodicity bar and remaining with only these Three time frames.

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