Grid, Volumes, Auto Scroll and MT4 Chart Shift Options on MT4

Grid

The MT4 grid button on the charts menu option of the MT4 Platform is used to draw grid lines as shown below. A trader might prefer to trade with grids on the chart or not and will use this button to show or hide the Grid.

The MT4 Grid button is shown below (Shortcut for this menu is Ctrl+G)

Volumes

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

Volumes are drawn as green bars below each stocks 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 candlestick bars every time you open a new chart.

Chart Shift

This MT4 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 MT4 platform, the MT4 charts shift button will shift the most recent candlestick towards the center. traders prefer to trade with most recent candlestick shifted toward the middle - this makes it easier to analyze the chart price movements when they are more towards the center.

For example, MT4 Charts Shift button is shown below as an arrow pointing down, by pressing this MT4 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 MT4 Charts Shift example illustrated below.

MT4 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 MT4 charts shift button key for shifting the last stocks candle towards the center.