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MetaTrader 5 Charts Bar and Tabs Navigation

When you open many charts on the MetaTrader 5 stocks software, these charts are arranged in navigation tabs bar just below the MT5 chart workspace as shown below.

MetaTrader 5 Charts Bar and Charts Tabs on MT5 - How to Read MetaTrader 5 Stocks Charts Tutorial

If on your MetaTrader 5 platform this display bar is not highlighted - as in the example shown above - you can follow the following procedure to show this MetaTrader 5 bar as well as these MetaTrader 5 tabs.

On the "View" menu drop down list option, the fourth button is named "Charts Bar" as shown above. To view this display bar on the MT5 Platform just click and check or tick this button and the it will appear as shown below displaying all the open charts as tabs that one can use to open any of these listed trading charts.

MT5 Charts Bar Menu on MT5 - How to Use Charts in MT5 Platform Explained

Once you tick This MT5 option the MetaTrader 5 bar appears and this MT5 bar also has right and left arrows that a trader can use to scroll to the left or to the right and navigate other open charts from this MetaTrader 5 bar.

These MetaTrader 5 chart tabs are used to organize all the open charts in MT5 platform in an orderly manner. This MetaTrader 5 tab also gives the trader easy access to any chart which they may have opened.

As the trader continues to open more charts, this MetaTrader 5 Bar of chart tabs adds navigation arrows to the right and to the left of this MetaTrader 5 bar, this way a trader can scroll to the left or to the right of this MT5 bar of chart tabs until they find the chart for the instrument that they want to trade.

For ease of navigation each tab on this MetaTrader 5 bar also shows the chart timeframe for which this particular chart is set for. The last MT5 Tab does not show the chart timeframe and a trader has to use the right and left scroll arrow MT5 buttons next to this tab to navigate. Once the trader reaches one end that arrow is then grayed out - as shown above, the right arrow scroll button above is grayed because the first chart is the first chart on the right side of this MetaTrader 5 bar.