Customizing & Arranging Charts Tool-Bars on MT4

Charts Tool-Bars are the most widely used tools in the MetaTrader 4 platform. Hence, the name tool-bars: meaning a list in bar format of the most oftenly used tools in the platform. These are used mostly for trading, placing indicators, placing technical analysis technical indicators, placing Expert Advisors or plotting line studies.

There are four main ones are illustrated and shown below.

Names of Tool Bars

There are 4 main tool-bars, these are named:

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

These are listed below:

All these Four will be covered in different tutorials, However, for now let's look at How Do I Customize These Bars?

How to Customize

For customizing, a trader can either move the tool bar to a different location, maybe a little more to the left or to the right. Or another option is to add/remove buttons from the list.

Moving a Tool-Bar on Platform

To move, follow the guide lines below:

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

Step 2: While still holding down on the mouse button, drag the mouse to position 2 as illustrated below and release the mouse button key, this will move the tool-bar to the new position (position 2.)

Adding Buttons to Trading Software

Step1: RightClick the customize button as Shown and Illustrated Below:

Next Step: For this Examples we shall use the Customize Popup Panel

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

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

For examples choosing Fib Expansion & clicking insert will add this technical indicator in the Right side Window Panel named "Selected"

To move the technical indicator up or down use UP or DOWN Buttons onto the right side, illustrated above:

The Tool bar will now look like:

Customizing ToolBars : If there is any tool that isn't placed on the list, you as a trader can use this option to place it to the list, just like the above examples where Fibonacci Expansion wasn't listed & now it has been added. If you do not know where an item is located & on which tool-bar, right click in customize button on the left side of any of the four tool-bars, and view listing of all names of all items which can be added, these will be on the left window on this customize window.

Also you as a trader can remove some tools, ones you don't use, to save on the space also, e.g. if you trade only with 15 minutes, 1 Hour and H4 charts, you as a trader can hide all the other time-frames on the Periodicity bar and remaining with only these 3 timeframes.

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