Grid, Volumes, Auto Scroll and MetaTrader 4 Chart Shift Options on MT4

MetaTrader 4 Grid

The MT4 grid button on the charts menu option of the MetaTrader 4 Platform is used to draw grid lines as 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 MetaTrader 4 Grid button is shown below (Short-cut for this menu is Ctrl+G)

MetaTrader 4 Volumes Indicator

Volumes in XAUUSD Trading represent tick volumes or number of times the tick for price changes during a particular time period. The more the tick changes the more the volumes. These volumes in XAUUSD Trading are used to estimate the number of traders participating in the market.

Volumes are plotted as green bars below each xauusd candlestick, and the height of these green bars represent the tick volume for a particular candlestick. (Shot cut key for Volumes : Ctrl+L)

MetaTrader 4 Auto Scroll

Auto scroll option when activated will automatically scroll to the most recent candlestick bar for every chart that's opened. Therefore, most recent information is displayed and as a trader you don't have to scroll to these recent candle bars every time you open a new chart.

MetaTrader 4 Charts Shift

This MT4 Charts Shift button is used to shift the chart more towards the center, instead of the last candlestick being right at the right side of the MT4 platform, the MT4 charts shift button will shift the most recent candlestick towards the center. traders prefer to trade with most recent candlestick shifted toward the mid - this makes it easier to analyze the chart price movements when they are more towards the center.

For example, the MT4 Charts Shift button is shown below as an arrow pointing down, by pressing this MT4 charts shift button within the chart menus(highlighted below by a rectangle), the last candlestick will shift from the right and move up to this point as shown in the MetaTrader 4 Charts Shift example shown below.

MetaTrader 4 charts menu options of showing grids, volumes and activating the auto scroll option for automatic scrolling to the most recent candlestick bar and also the MetaTrader 4 charts shift button key for shifting the last candle toward the center.