Adjusting Properties on Charts Menu in the MetaTrader 4 Platform

The last item you can pick from the charts menu on MetaTrader 4 is the properties button. This button lets you change the settings of the chart you see in the MetaTrader 4 workspace. The picture below shows where you can find the properties button on the charts menu.

Properties Button Key in MT4 for Editing Properties and Setting

BTCUSD Chart Properties

Hit the properties button. A window opens with chart options. The examples here use two sets of different parameters.

Example 1:

Example 2:

The following properties can be adjusted from the above menu:

Back ground - change background
Fore ground - change foreground, objects in the fore-ground
Grid - place or remove the grid
Bar Up - Color of bars, bullish bar
Bar Down - Colour of bars, bearish bar
Bull Candlestick - Color of candles, bullish candlestick
Bear Candlestick - Color of candles, bearish candle
Line Graph - Colour of Line
Volumes - Setting of Volumes
Ask Line - Setting of Ask Line
Stop Levels - Setting of the Stop Levels Line

In the two examples above, these settings are different, so that's why these two different settings look different when displayed and shown on the preview windows above.

The Colour Scheme

The chart properties window panel also lists 3 color scheme like as shown below that traders can load & these color schemes are the default pre saved color schemes of MetaTrader 4.

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Common Settings

On properties window there's also next tab marked as "Common" such as illustrated & shown below, this button key is for common settings.

the subsequent are common Settings that may be activated or de-activated using this panel window:

Offline, foreground option, shift option & auto scroll properties can also be activated or deactivated from properties common settings option like is shown above.

You can choose what type of chart you want from this menu, with choices like Bar, Candles, and Line.

Toggle options like OHLC, ask line, separators, grid, volumes, and descriptions in the common settings. Activate or turn off as needed.

To learn and know more about the above settings or to find out what a given option means or what it displays to you can download the MetaTrader 4 Platform & practice placing these object on charts & changing some of these properties and settings.

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Adjusting Properties on Charts Menu in the MetaTrader 4 Platform

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The Colour Scheme

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