Grid, Volumes, Auto Scroll and MT4 Chart Shift Options in the MT4 Platform
MT4 Grid
The MetaTrader 4 grid button on the charts menu option of the MT4 Software Platform is used to draw grid lines as is shown below. A trader may prefer to trade with grids on chart or not and will use this button key to show or hide the Grid.
The MT4 Grid button is displayed below (Short-cut for this menu is Ctrl+G)
MT4 Volumes Indicator
Volumes in XAUUSD Trading represent tick volumes or number of times the tick for price changes during a particular time period. The greater the tick shifts the greater the volumes. These volumes in XAUUSD Trading are used to estimate the number of traders who participate in the market.
Volumes are plotted as green bars below each xauusd gold candlestick, & the height of these green bars represent the tick volume for a particular candle. (Short Cut button for Volumes : Ctrl+L)
MT4 Auto Scroll
Auto scroll when it's activated will automatically scroll to most current candle bar for every chart that's opened. Hence, most recent information is displayed & as a trader you don't have to scroll to these recent candle bars every time you open a new chart.
MT4 Charts Shift
This MT4 Chart Shift button is used to move the chart more towards the center, instead of the last candlestick being right at the right side of the MT4 software, the MT4 chart shift button will move the most recent candle towards the center. Traders prefer to trade with recent most candle shifted toward the mid - this makes it easier to analyze the chart price moves when they are more towards the center.
For illustration, the MT4 Charts Shift button is displayed below as an arrow pointing down, by pressing this MT4 chart shift button within the chart menus(high lighted below by a rectangle), the last candle will shift from the right and move up to this point such as illustrated and shown in the MT4 Charts Shift example illustrated below.
MT4 charts menu options of showing grids, volumes and activating the auto scroll option for automatic scrolling to the recent most candle bar and also the MT4 charts shift button key for shifting the last candle toward the center.
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