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XAU/USD Chart Time Frames in MetaTrader 4 Platform Software

Periodicity just means chart time frames, in MT4 this tool-bar is used to choose which timeframe to trade with.

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The time-frames listed are:

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

As a gold trader you only require to trade with only about three chart time frames, e.g. let us say a xauusd trader only requires the 15 minutes, the 1 hour and the 4 hours chart timeframe, then on the periodicity tool-bar one 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 instructions & guidelines

  1. Right-Click at the tool bar button to the left (It looks like a stack of coins), illustrated & displayed below

XAU/USD Chart Time Frames MT4 - XAU/USD MT4 Download - How Do I Display Chart Time Frames in Platform Explained?

2. Click customize

After following the above steps the customize popup window will appear like illustrated and shown below:

Chart Time Frames MT4 - XAUUSD TimeFrames Beginners - How Do I Display Time-frames on Platform?

Select like as shown above & click the remove button key.

The pop-up then will look like:

XAU/USD Chart Time Frames MT4 - XAUUSD TimeFrames Beginners - XAU/USD MT4 Download

On the platform the periodicity tool bar will now look like the examples illustrated and shown below:

Chart Time Frames MT4 - Gold TimeFrames Beginners - XAU/USD MetaTrader 4 Download

Using the above setup as a gold trader you as a trader can save space within your MT4 platform work space by hiding the timeframes which you're not trading with.

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