Chart Time Frames on MetaTrader 5

Periodicity just means timeframes, in MT5 this toolbar is used to choose which chart timeframes to trade with.

The time frames listed are:

1. 1 Min - M1
2. 5 Min - M5
3. 15 Min - M15
4. 30 Min - M30
5. 1 H - H1
6. 4 Hours - H4
7. Daily - D1
8. Weekly - W1
9. Monthly - MN

As a trader you only require to trade with only about Three chart timeframes, for example let's say one only requires the 15 min, the 1 hour and the 4 hours time-frame, then on the periodicity MT5 toolbar a trader can hide all the others which are not required using the following method.

How to Customize

To add a tool not listed above one has to follow these following steps

1. Right Click at MetaTrader 5 tool-bar button to the left (Looks like a stack of coins), displayed below

2. Click customize

After following the above steps the customize popup window will appear as illustrated & displayed below:

Select as displayed above and click the remove button.

The pop up will then look like:

On the platform the periodicity MT5 toolbar will now look like the examples shown below:

Using the above setup you can save space within your MetaTrader 5 Platform Software work space by hiding the time frames which you are not trading with.