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Line Studies Toolbar Menu on MetaTrader 4

Sometimes traders will say "oh, I can't find Fibonacci expansion tool on my MetaTrader 4 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 display, therefore a trader must know where to get these tools that are not displayed by default on the MT4 XAUUSD Platform. So how can a trader add a tool, to the line studies toolbar shown below?

MT4 Gold Trading Toolbar Menu - Gold MT4 Toolbar Menu and How to Customize it in MT4 Platform

Customize a Toolbar on XAUUSD Trading Platform

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

  1. Right-Click at the tool-bar button to the left of this(Looks like a stack of coins)as displayed below

Gold Trading Line Studies Tool-bar Menu - Customizing Gold Trading Line Studies Toolbar Menu in MT4

3. Click customize 4. Add all Tools

Following customize pop up will appear:

Customizing Gold Trading Toolbar Menu in MT4

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

Customizing Gold Trading Line Studies Toolbar Menu in MT4 - Gold Toolbar Menu and Customizing Gold Toolbars Menu in MT4

The toolbar will now look like:

Gold Platform MetaTrader 4 Toolbar Menu and How to Customize it on MetaTrader 4

Explanations of Each Tool

The following is the explanation of each tool on this toolbar.

Gold Platform MetaTrader 4 Toolbar Menu and How to Customize it on MT4 Platform

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

2: Select 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 xauusd trend line

6: Equidistant Channel

7: Fib Retracement

8: Text button

9: Text Label Button Key

10: Fibo Expansion

11: XAUUSD Trend by Angle

12: Linear Regression Channel

13:Standard Deviation Channel

14: Gann Lines

15: Gann Fan

16: Gann Grid

17: Fib Time zones

18: Fib Fan

19: Fibo 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 Gold Trading Software

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

Platform MT4 Toolbar Menu

Remove the above tools by clicking on them and then clicking the remove button, so as to save space on your MT4 software workspace.