Customizing and Arranging Charts Toolbars on MetaTrader 4

Charts Tool bars are the most widely used tools in the MT4 platform. Therefore, the name tool bars: meaning a list in bar format of the most commonly used tools in the platform. These are used mostly for trading, placing indicators, placing technical analysis indicators, placing Expert-Advisors or drawing line studies.

There are four main ones are shown and illustrated below.

Names of Toolbars

There are 4 main toolbars, these are named:

1. Standard
2. Charts
3. Line Studies
4. Periodicity

These are listed below:

All these Four will be covered in different topics, However, for now let's look at How Do I Customize These Bars?

How to Customize

For customizing, a trader can either move the toolbar to a different location, maybe a little to the left or to the right. Or another option is to add or remove buttons from its list.

Moving a Tool Bar on FX Trading Platform

To move, follow the guide-lines below:

Step 1: Click & Hold Down Mouse Button at position Shown below.

Step 2: While still holding down the mouse button, drag the mouse to position 2 as shown below & release the mouse button, this will move the tool bar to the new position (position 2.)

Adding Buttons to FX Trading Software

Step1: Right Click the customize button as Shown Below:

Next Step: For this Example we shall use the Customize Pop-up Window Panel

After clicking customize as shown above, following popup appears:

Step1: Select Any Tool on Left, To add it Click insert button key on middle as shown above.

For example choosing Fibo Expansion and clicking insert will add this indicator in the Right side Panel named 'Selected'

To move the indicator up or down use the UP or DOWN Button Keys on the right side, shown above:

The Tool bar will now look like:

Customizing Tool-bars : If there is any tool that is not placed on list, you can use this option to add it to the list, just like the above example where Fibonacci Expansion was not listed and now it has been added. If you do not know where an item is located and on which tool bar, right click in customize button key on left side of any of the four tool bars, and view list of all the names of all items that can be added, these will be on the left window on this customize window.

Also you can remove some tools, the ones you don't use, so as to save on the space also, for example if you trade only with 15 minute, 1 Hour and 4 hour charts, you can hide all the other time frames on Periodicity bar & remaining with only these Three time-frames.