Opening an Offline Chart on MT5

In MT5 you may want to open an offline chart and analyze this chart without having it updating in real time. Although it is not often that a trader wants to open an offline chart, This MT5 option is provided for in the MT5 Software.

Shown below, File Navigation dropdown menu the second option is that of opening an offline chart.

Once a trader clicks the open offline chart a pop up window panel will popup, a trader can then choose which offline chart to open from this pop up menu.

From the above popup menu a trader can then open any offline chart that is listed above, the number of price bars that have been saved for a specific offline saved chart is recorded as the number of chart bars as well as the date from which this chart is saved upto the last time it got to be updated.

This MetaTrader 5 option is not required so much in trading but it is good to explain it for guide purposes.