Grid, Volumes, Auto Scroll & MetaTrader 5 Chart Shift Options on MT5

Grid

The MT5 grid button on the charts menu option of the MT5 Platform is used to draw grid lines as pictured below. A trader might prefer to trade with grids on the chart or not and will use this button key to show or hide the Grid.

The MT5 Grid button key is displayed below (Shortcut for this menu is Ctrl+G)

Volumes

Volumes in Stocks represent tick volumes or the number of times the tick for price changes during a particular time period. The more the tick changes the more the volumes. These volumes in Stocks are used to estimate the number of traders participating in the market.

Volumes are drawn as green bars below each candle, & the height of these green bars represent the tick volume for a particular candle. ( Shot cut keys for Volumes: Ctrl+L )

Auto Scroll

Auto scroll option when activated will automatically scroll to the most recent candlestick bar for every chart that is opened. Therefore, the most recent information is displayed & as a trader you do not have to scroll to these recent candle-stick bars every time you open a new chart.

Chart Shift

This MT5 Charts Shift button is used to shift the chart more towards the center, instead of the last candlestick being right at the right side of the MT5 platform, the MT5 charts shift button will shift the most recent candle-stick towards the center. traders prefer to trade with most recent candle-stick shifted toward the middle - this makes it easier to analyze the chart price movements when they are more towards the center.

For example, the MT5 Charts Shift button is pictured below as an arrow pointing down, by pressing this MT5 charts shift button key within the chart menus(highlighted below by a rectangle), the last candlestick will shift from the right and move up to this point as shown in the MT5 Charts Shift examples illustrated below.

MT5 charts menu options of showing grids, volumes and activating the auto scroll option for automatic scrolling to the most recent candlestick bar and also the MT5 charts shift button for shifting the last candle towards the center.