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Line Studies Tool Bar Menu in MT4

Sometimes traders will say "oh, I can't find Fib extension tool on my MT4 where can I get it?"

The thing is that all these line studies are located on the line studies toolbar: however, by default settings not all of them are set to show, therefore a fx trader must know where to get these tools which aren't put to display by default on the MetaTrader 4 Software/Platform. So how can one add a trading tool, to the line studies tool-bar shown below?

Line Studies Toolbar Menu on MetaTrader 4 - Customizing Line Studies Toolbar Menu on MT4 - MT4 Line Studies Toolbar Menu PDF

Customize a ToolBar on Platform

To add a trading tool not listed above a fx trader has to following and taking the following guidelines

  1. Right Click at the tool-bar button key to the left (Looks like a stack of coins) such as shown below

How to Customize and Add Tools on the Line Studies Toolbar in MT4 - MetaTrader 4 Trading Toolbars

3. Click customize 4. Add all Tools

Following customize pop up panel will appear:

How to Add Line Tools to the Line Studies Toolbar on MT4 - MT4 Line Studies Tool Bar PDF

Choose all the tools from the left window & add them: After adding this will look like:

Customize and Adding All Tools to the Line Studies Toolbar in MT4 - Customizing MT4 Toolbars

The tool-bar will now look like:

All Tools on Line Studies Toolbar in the MetaTrader 4 Platform Software - Line Studies Toolbar on MT4 Explained

Explanation of Each Tool

The following is the explanation of each tool on this toolbar.

Forex MT4 Tool Bars Guide

1: Select mouse as cursor, change mouse pointer to default cursor

2: Select Cross-Hair cursor, a type of cursor that maps coordinates to the axis of the charts

3: Draw a vertical line

4: Draw a Horizontal line

5: Draw a trend-line

6: Equidistant Channel

7: Fib Retracement

8: Text button

9: Text Label Button Key

10: Fib Expansion

11: Trend by Angle

12: Linear Regression Channel

13:Standard Deviation Channel

14: Gann Lines

15: Gann Fan

16: Gann Grid

17: Fib Timezones

18: Fib Fan

19: Fibo Arc

20: Cycle Lines

21: Andrew's Pitch Fork

22: Insert Ellipse

23: Insert Triangle

24: Insert Rectangle

25: Fib Channels

26: Draw Arrows

How to Remove Tools from Platform

As a trader you will not need all these button keys and you as a trader can hide some of them by clicking the customize button key, then choose some of the items on right panel & then choose hide.

How to Remove a Tool from the Lines Toolbar on MetaTrader 4 - MetaTrader 4 Line Studies Toolbar Menu PDF

Remove the above tools by clicking on them & then pressing the remove button, to save space in your MetaTrader 4 software work space.

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