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Trading Chart Timeframes in MT4 Platform

Periodicity just means time frame, in MT4 this tool bar is used to select which time-frames to trade with.

XAUUSD Chart Timeframes MT4 Trading Platform - Charts Timeframes in MT4 Setup PDF

The time-frames listed are:

  1. 1 Min - M1
  2. 5 Minute - M5
  3. 15 Min - M15
  4. 30 Min - M30
  5. 1 H - H1
  6. 4 Hours - H4
  7. Daily - D1
  8. Weekly - W1
  9. Monthly - MN

As a gold trader you only require to trade with only about 3 chart timeframes, for example let us say one only requires the 15 minute, the 1 hour and the 4 hours timeframe, then on the periodicity tool-bar a xauusd trader can hide all the others which are not required using the following technique.

How to Customize

To add a tool not listed above one has to follow these following steps

  1. Right Click at the tool bar button key to the left (Looks like a stack of coins), illustrated below

Charts Timeframes in MT4 Setup Tutorial - Chart Time Frames: Periodicity in Charts

2. Click customize

After following above steps the customize popup window will appear as displayed below:

XAUUSD Chart Time Frames MetaTrader 4

Select as shown above and click remove button.

The popup panel will then look like:

XAUUSD Chart Timeframes MT4 Trading Platform - Charts Timeframes in MetaTrader 4 Setup PDF

On the platform the periodicity tool-bar will now look like the examples illustrated below:

XAUUSD Chart Timeframes MT4

Using the above setup as a xauusd trader you can save space within your MetaTrader 4 platform workspace by hiding the timeframes which you are not trading with.

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