Setting Properties on Charts Menu on MetaTrader 4 Platform

The last menu item in the charts menu on the MT4 is the properties button. This button represents the settings of the chart that's on the MT4 workspace. The properties button on the charts menu is shown below.

Properties Button on MT4 for Editing Properties & Setting

Chart Properties

By clicking 'properties' button, following popup will appear displaying the various settings for chart. The exemplifications below explain 2 illustrations with different settings.

Example 1:

Example 2:

The following properties/settings can be adjusted using the above menu:

1. Back ground - change background
2. Fore-ground - change fore-ground, objects in the foreground
3. Grid - place and set or remove the grid
4. Bar Up - Colour of bars, bullish bar
5. Bar Down - Color of bars, bearish bar
6. Bull Candlestick - Color of candlesticks, bullish candlestick
7. Bear Candle - Color of candlesticks, bearish candlestick
8. Line Graph - Color of Line
9. Volumes - Settings of Volumes
10. Ask Line - Settings of Ask Line
11. Stop Levels - Setting of the Stop Levels Line

In the above two example these properties are different & thus the difference of appearance of these 2 different settings shown & displayed on the preview windows above.

The Colour Scheme

The chart properties panel also lists three color scheme such as illustrated below that traders can load & these color schemes are the default pre saved color schemes of the MetaTrader 4 software.

Candlestick Settings

Common Settings

On properties window there's also the next tab labeled and marked as 'Common' just as is shown and illustrated below, this button is for common settings.

The following are the Common Settings which can be activated or de-activated using the window:

Offline, foreground option, shift option & auto scroll properties can also be activated or deactivated from the properties common settings option just as shown above.

Type of chart can be chosen and selected from this menu from the options/choices Bar, Candles & Line.

Show O.H.C.L., Show ASK Line, Display the Period Separators, Show Grid, Show Volumes & Show Object Description option can be activated or de-activated on this common setting option such as shown above.

To learn more about the above setting or to find out and learn what a given option means or what it shows you as a trader can download the MT4 Platform & practice placing these object on charts & changing some of these properties & settings.

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