Customizing and Arranging Charts Toolbars on MT4

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 Expert Advisors or plotting line studies.

There are four main ones are illustrated & shown below.

Names of Toolbars

There are 4 main toolbars, these are named:

1. Standard
2. Charts
3. Line Studies
4. Periodicity

These are listed below:

All these 4 will be covered in different tutorials, However, for now let's look at How Do You Customize The Bars?

How to Customize

For customizing, a trader can either move the toolbar 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 Commodity Trading Platform

To move, follow the procedure below:

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

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

Adding Buttons to Commodity Trading Software

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

Next Step: For this Example we shall use the Customize Pop-up Window Panel

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

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

For example selecting Commodity Trading Fib 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 list, you can use this option to add it to the list, just like the above example where Commodity Trading Fib Expansion was not listed and now it has been added. If you do not know where an item is located and on which toolbar, right click on customize button key on the left side of any of the four tool bars, and view a 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 do not use, so that to save on the space also, for example if you trade only with 15 minute, 1 Hour & 4 Hour charts, you can hide all the other time-frames on the Periodicity bar and remaining with only these 3 time frames.