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Line Studies Toolbar Menu on MetaTrader 5

Sometimes traders will say "oh, I can not find Fibo expansion tool on my MetaTrader 5 where can I get it?"

The thing is that all these line studies are located on the line studies toolbar: however, by default not all are set to illustrate, therefore a trader must know where to get these trading tools that are not shown by default on the MT5 Platform. So how can one add a tool, to the line studies MT5 toolbar shown below?

Line Studies Toolbar Menu on MT5 Software - Toolbar Menu and Customizing Toolbar Menu on MT5 Platform

Customize a Toolbar on Software

To add a tool not listed above a trader has to follow these steps

  1. Right Click at MetaTrader 5 toolbar button key to the left of this(Looks like a stack of coins)as displayed below

Platform MT5 Customizing and Arranging Toolbars in MetaTrader 5

3. Click customize 4. Add all Tools

The following customize popup window panel will popup:

Platform MT5 Customizing and Arranging Toolbars on MT5

Choose all the tools from the left window panel & add them: After adding this will look like:

Customize and Adding All Tools to the Line Studies Toolbar on MT5 Platform

The MetaTrader 5 tool-bar will now look like:

All Tools on Line Studies Toolbar in The MetaTrader 5 Platform - Trading Tool Bars on MT5

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Explanations of Each Tool

The following is explanation of each tool on this tool-bar.

Trading Toolbar Menu and How to Customize it in MetaTrader 5

1: Choose mouse as cursor, change mouse to the default cursor

2: Choose Cross-Hair cursor, a type of cursor that maps coordinates to the axis of the charts

3: Draw a vertical line

4: Draw a Horizontal line

5: Draw a trend line

6: Equidistant Channel

7: Stock Fib Retracement

8: Text button

9: Text Label Button Key

10: Stocks Fibo Expansion

11: trend by Angle

12: Linear Regression Channel

13:Standard Deviation Channel

14: Gann Lines

15: Gann Fan

16: Gann Grid

17: Fibonacci Time zones

18: Fibo Fan

19: Fibonacci Arc

20: Cycle Lines

21: Andrew's Pitchfork

22: Insert Ellipse

23: Insert Triangle

24: Insert Rectangle

25: Fibonacci Channels

26: Draw Arrows

How to Remove Tools from Stock Software

As a trader you will not need all these buttons and you can hide some of them by clicking the customize button, then choose some of the items on the right window & then choose hide.

How to Remove a Tool from the Lines Toolbar on MT5 Software - MT5 Toolbar Menu Tutorial

Remove the above tools by clicking on them & then clicking the remove button key, so as to save space on your MT5 Platform workspace.