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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 tool bar: however, by default not all are set to display, therefore a trader must know where to get these tools that are not shown by default on the MT4 Software. So how can a trader add a tool, to the line studies tool bar shown below?

Line Studies Toolbar Menu on MT4 - Customizing Line Studies Toolbar Menu on MT4 - MT4 Line Studies Toolbar Menu PDF

Customize a Toolbar on Platform

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

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

How to Customize and Add Tools on the Line Studies Toolbar in MT4 - MetaTrader 4 Trading Toolbars

3. Click customize 4. Add all Tools

Following customize pop up panel will appear:

How to Add Line Tools to the Line Studies Toolbar on MT4 - MT4 Line Studies Tool Bar PDF

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

Customize and Adding All Tools to the Line Studies Toolbar in MT4 - Customizing MT4 Toolbars

The toolbar will now look like:

All Tools on Line Studies Toolbar in the MT4 Platform - Line Studies Toolbar on MT4 Explained

Explanations of Each Tool

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

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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 trend line

6: Equidistant Channel

7: Fibonacci Retracement

8: Text button

9: Text Label Button Key

10: 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 Timezones

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 Software

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

How to Remove a Tool from the Lines Toolbar on MT4 - MetaTrader 4 Line Studies Toolbar Menu PDF

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

 

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