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Line Studies Tool Bar Menu on the 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 tool bar: 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 MT4 Software/Platform. So how can one add a trading tool, to the line studies tool-bar shown below?

Line Studies Tool Bar Menu in MetaTrader 4 Platform Software - Customizing Line Studies Tool Bar Menu on the MT4 Software - MT4 Line Studies Tool Bar Menu PDF

Customize a Tool Bar 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 Tool Bar in MT4 Platform - MetaTrader 4 Trading Toolbars

3. Click customize 4. Place all Tools

Following customize pop up panel will appear:

How to Set Line Tools to the Line Studies Tool Bar in the MT4 Software - MT4 Line Studies Tool Bar PDF

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

Customize and Adding All Tools to the Line Studies Tool Bar in MT4 Platform - Customizing MT4 Toolbars

The tool-bar will now look like:

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

Explanation of Each Tool

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

Forex MT4 Tool Bars Guide

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

2: Select/Choose 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: Equi-distant 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 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 the MetaTrader 4 Software - MetaTrader 4 Line Studies Tool Bar Menu PDF

Remove the above tools by clicking on them & then pressing the remove button, to save space in your MT4 platform work space.

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