Add Custom Indicator Mt4 How To Fully Manage

If you are in a trade and open the trade window you will also get a tick chart displayed.

Add Custom Indicator Mt4 How To Fully Manage

In this article we will explain how to fully manage and customize your MT4 charts.

We will also show you some useful tips and tricks for getting the most out of your charts including some free MT4 indicators to make reading your charts more manageable.

This will then bring up a list of available market symbols for you to open.

Click on the one you want and the chart will load in a new tab with the default chart settings (we will learn how to change default settings later in this article).

There may be many more symbols available to you than you can see in the default install of MT4.

To see all the available symbols go to View menu Symbols or use the shortcut CtrlU.

From here you can view all the available symbols from your broker and choose to show or hide them.

If you are running MT4 on a VPS it may be worth only selecting those you will trade.

There are three built in color schemes that you can choose from or you can set all the elements yourself.

Chart Shift: Shifts the chart to the left and creates a gap on the right hand side of the chart.

You can also enable this from the MT4 toolbar or via the top menu: Charts Chart Shift.

Chart Autoscroll: the chart automatically scrolls to the left as new data comes in.

This can also be changed via the toolbar buttons or via the top menu: Charts Auto Scroll.

When chart shift is enabled, a small triangle will appear near the top right of the chart.

Move this left or right to change the chart shift position (If you struggle to see the triangle, try changing the grid color).

This is shown in the top left corner of the chart next to the symbol.

Show Period Separators: Draws horizontal lines on the chart from higher time frames.

Daily separators will be drawn for charts with periods of M1 to H1, weekly ones for H4, monthly ones for D1, and yearly ones for W1 and MN1.

Can also be done with the Shortcut key CtrlG, via right click menu on chart, from the top menu: Charts Grid or right click context menu on the chart.

Note this is not the number of lots traded on the number of times the price changed in that period.

You can change your chart between them in the chart Properties ( F8 ), in the Charts menu from the top toolbar or by using the toolbar symbol or shortcut key shown below.

In this box type the timeframe you want (M5, H1, etc) and hit Enter again and also in the Charts menu from the top toolbar.