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Chart Time Frames on MetaTrader 4 XAUUSD Trading Platform

Periodicity just means chart time frames, in MetaTrader 4 this toolbar is used to select which chart time frames to trade with.

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The time frames listed are:



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


As a xauusd trader you only require to trade with only about 3 chart time frames, for example let's say a xauusd trader only requires the 15 minute, the 1 hour and the 4 hours time frame, then on the periodicity toolbar a xauusd trader can hide all the others that are not required using the following method.


How to Customize

To add a tool not listed above a xauusd trader has to follow the following steps



  1. Right Click at the toolbar button to the left (Looks like a stack of coins), shown below


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2. Click customize



After following the above steps the customize popup window will appear as shown below:

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Select as shown above and click the remove button.


The popup window will then look like:

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

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Using the above setup as a xauusd trader you can save space within your MetaTrader 4 gold trading platform workspace by hiding the time frames which you are not trading with.

 

Metals Trading Symbols

Precious Metal Symbols:
Gold - XAU USD and XAU EUR, Silver - XAG USD and XAG EUR, Platinum - XPT USD, Palladium - XPD USD

Metal Symbols:
Copper - XCU USD, Zinc - XZN USD, Lead - XPB USD, Nickel - XNI USD, Aluminium - XAL USD