Customizing and Arranging Charts Toolbars on MetaTrader 5

Charts Toolbars are the most widely used tools in the MT5 platform. Therefore, the name MT5 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 xauusd 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 tool-bars, these are named:

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

These are listed below:

All these 4 will be covered in different guides, However, for now let us look at How Do You Customize These Bars?

How to Customize

For customizing, a trader can either move the MT5 toolbar to a different location, maybe a little to the left or to the right. Or another option is to add or remove MT5 buttons from its list.

Moving a Tool Bar on Gold Trading Software

To move, follow the guide lines below:

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

Step 2: While still holding down the mouse button key, drag the mouse to position 2 as displayed below & release the mouse button, this will move the MetaTrader 5 toolbar to the new position (position 2.)

Adding Buttons to XAUUSD Trading Software

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

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

After clicking customize as shown above, the following pop-up pops up:

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

For examples selecting Fibonacci Expansion & clicking insert will add this indicator in the Right side Panel named 'Selected'

To move the technical indicator up or down use UP or DOWN Button Keys on right side, shown above:

the MT5 toolbar will now look like:

Customizing Toolbars : If there is any tool that is not placed on the list, you can use this option to add it to the list, just like the above examples where Fibonacci Expansion was not listed and 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 toolbars, & view 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, ones you do not use, so as to save on the space also, for example if you trade only with 15 minute, 1 Hour and 4 hour charts, you can hide all the other timeframes on Periodicity bar & remaining with only these Three timeframes.