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Opening an Offline Trade Chart on MT4 Software Platform

In MT4 you may want to open an offline chart and analyze this chart without having it updating in real-time. Although it is not often that a gold trader wants to open an offline chart, this option is provided for in the MetaTrader 4 platform.

Shown below, the File Navigation dropdown menu the second option is that of opening an offline chart.

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When a gold trader opens an offline chart, a popup window will appear, allowing them to choose and select which offline chart to display from the menu in the window.

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From the menu that pops up, a trader can then open any offline chart that's listed. The number of price changes that have been saved in a specific offline chart is recorded as the number of bars, along with the date the chart was saved up to the last update.

this option isn't required a lot in trading but it is ideal to provide an explanation for it for lesson purposes.

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