Indicators Insert Option on MT4 Insert Menu

MetaTrader 4 indicators can be found on the Insert Menu as the first option.

This option has a pop right button that shows the listing of all the MT4 indicators under this option as shown below.

The listing is illustrated below as a popup menu, at the top is a list of the ones most popularly used Indices indicators within the MetaTrader 4 trade software by the trader using this software. This list made up of 6 types of Stock Indices indicator groups, which vary from platform-to-platform based on the platform software being used.

Commonly Used in the Example Above

On the above example the most commonly used, these are:

Accelerator Oscillator
Accumulation/Distribution
Alligator
Average Directional Movement Index
Average True Range
Awesome Oscillator

Trend Based

These are displayed below:

These are:

Average Directional Movement Index
Bollinger Band
Commodity Channel Index
Moving Average
Parabolic SAR
Standard Deviation

Trend based will basically show the general direction of the market. These will either move upwards in an uptrend or downwards in a down trend. (Or Side-ways no direction /no trend).

A trader will therefore trade with the direction that's the same as that indicated by these trend following.

Oscillators

These Oscillators are illustrated below:

These Oscillator Trading are:

Average True Range
Bears Power
Bulls Power
DeMarker
Envelopes
Force Index
Ichimoku Kinko Hyo
MACD
Momentum
MA of Oscillator
Relative Strength Index
Relative Vigor Index
Stochastic Oscillator
William's Percentage Range

Volume Based

These are displayed below:

These are:

Accumulation/Distribution
Money Flow Index
On Balance Volume
Volumes

Bill Williams

The MT4 Bill Williams indicators are shown below, these were developed by Bill Williams hence their grouping as Bill Williams:

The Bill William are:

Accelerator Oscillator
Alligator
Awesome Oscillator
Fractals
Gator Oscillator
Market Facilitation Index

Custom Trading Indicators

These are shown below,

Customs are:

Accelerator
Accumulation
Alligator
ATR
Awesome
Bands
Bears
Bulls
CCI
Heiken Ashi
Ichimoku
iExposure
MACD
Momentum
Moving Averages
OsMA
Parabolic
RSI
Stochastic
Zigzag

The Sub Menu, within the Insert Menu can be used to place these indicators on a chart by choosing & then clicking on it to place it on the chart.

Once you click on an indicator the following popup will appear:

As a trader you can just click the 'OK' button to place it on the trading chart.

You can also change a couple of setting, for example in the above you can set the colour style to blue, change the line width & change the period used to calculate the settings.

A level can also be added by choosing the 'Levels' button as is illustrated below:

To add a level, just click the add button key & select the level where you want to add this levels, normally this is set as a number. The color of the level can also be changed on the style button key marked silver along with the format of the line and the width of the line.

The next button shown below, visualization button key is used to determine which chart time frame it should appear on:

By default a technical indicator is set to appear on all the timeframes, but you can uncheck the "All Time frames" option and select fewer chart timeframes where you want it to appear on, for example by choosing only the M15, H1 & H4, this way it will not appear on any other apart from these three, to have it show on all just check the "All Time frames" option.

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