Grid, Volumes, Auto Scroll and MT4 Commodity Trading Chart Shift Options on MetaTrader 4

MT4 Grid

The MT4 grid button on the charts menu option of the MT4 Commodity Trading Platform is used to draw grid lines as illustrated and shown below. A trader may prefer to trade with grids on commodity chart or not & will use this button key to show or hide the Grid.

The MT4 Grid button is shown below (Shortcut for this menu is Ctrl+G)

MT4 Volumes Indicator

Volumes in Commodity Trading represent tick volumes or the number of times the tick for commodity price changes during a particular time period. The more the tick changes the more the volumes. These volumes in Commodity Trading are used to estimate the number of commodity traders participating in the commodities trading market.

Volumes are drawn as green bars below each commodity candlestick, and the height of these green bars represent the tick volume for a particular candle. ( Shotcut keys for Volumes: Ctrl+L )

MT4 Auto Scroll

Auto scroll option when activated will automatically scroll to the most recent commodity candle stick bar for every commodity chart that is opened. Therefore, the most recent information is displayed and as a trader you don't have to scroll to these recent commodity candle bars every time you open a new commodities trading chart.

MT4 Commodity Trading Charts Shift

This MT4 Commodity Trading Charts Shift button is used to shift the commodity chart more towards the center, instead of the last candlestick being right at the right side of the MT4 platform, MT4 commodity charts shift button will shift the most recent commodity candlestick towards the center. Commodity traders prefer to trade with most recent commodity candlestick shifted toward the middle - this makes it easier to analyze the commodity chart price movements when they are more towards the center.

For example, the MT4 Commodity Trading Charts Shift button is shown below as an arrow pointing down, by pressing this MT4 commodity charts shift button key within the chart menus(highlighted below by a rectangle), the last commodity candlestick will shift from the right and move up to this point as shown in the MT4 Commodity Trading Charts Shift example illustrated and shown below.

MT4 charts menu options of showing grids, volumes and activating the auto scroll option for automatic scrolling to the most recent candlestick bar and also the MT4 commodity charts shift button for shifting the last commodity candlestick towards the center.