Customizing and Arranging Metals Charts Toolbars in MT4 Software

Charts Toolbars are the most widely used tools in the MT4 platform. Therefore, the name tool bars: meaning a list in bar format of the most commonly used tools in the platform. These are used mostly for trading, placing indicators, placing technical analysis indicators, placing EAs or plotting line studies.

There are four main ones are illustrated & shown below.

Names of Toolbars

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 Do I Customize The Bars?

How to Customize

For customizing, 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 button keys from its list.

Moving a Tool Bar on Metal Trading Software

To move, follow procedure below:

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

Step 2: While still holding down the mouse button key, drag the mouse to position 2 as displayed below and release the mouse button key, this will move the toolbar to the new position (position 2.)

Adding Buttons to Metal Trading Platform

Step1: Right Click the customize button key as Shown Below:

Next Step: For this Examples we shall use the Customize Popup Panel

After clicking customize as shown above, the following pop-up appears:

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

For example selecting Metals Trading Fibonacci Expansion and clicking insert will add this indicator to the Right side Window named "Selected"

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

The Toolbar will now look like:

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

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