Drawing Bar Charts on MT4

The third option on the charts menu in MetaTrader 4 platform is the 'Bar Chart' button key. This button is used to choose the drawing method of xauusd instrument movement as price bars.

To trade on charts a trader may prefer to use the Bar Charts. The above menu button shows how a trader can select this option on the MetaTrader 4 platform.

These are drawn using color programming:

• Red bar - Price went down
• Blue bar - Price went up

These bars also have horizontal line to the left & to the right: these are used to show opening (left horizontal dash) and the closing (right horizontal hyphen).

The highest point shows the high of the price

Lowest point displays the low of the price

These 4 points Open, High, Close and Low are Referred to as O.H.C.L, abbreviation of the first letter for these Four levels, these 4 O H C L areas will be represented on every single bar.

These charts aren't very popular among traders as they are not very appealing in terms of analysis & traders tend to favor other types.