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Periodicity Toolbar Menu - Chart Time Frames on MetaTrader 4 Forex Trading Software

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 trader you only require to trade with only about 3 chart time frames, for example lets say a trader only requires the 15 minute, the 1 hour and the 4 hours time frame, then on the periodicity toolbar a 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 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:

Select Forex Trading Chart Time Frames and Remove Forex Trading Chart Timeframes From The Periodicity Toolbar in MetaTrader 4 Forex Trading Platform


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:

Selecting 3 Forex Trading Chart Time Frames in Periodicity Tool Bar to Trade Forex with on MetaTrader 4 Forex Trading Platform


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


 

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