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Line Studies ToolBar Menu in MetaTrader 4

Sometimes traders will say "oh, I can't find Fib expansion tool on my MT4 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 illustrate, hence a trader must know where to get these tools that are not shown by default on the MetaTrader 4 Platform Software. So how can one 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 shown 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 tool-bar will now look like:

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

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Explanation of Each Tool

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

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1: Choose mouse as cursor, change mouse pointer to 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: Fib Retracement

8: Text button

9: Text Label Button Key

10: Fib Expansion

11: Trend by Angle

12: Linear Regression Channel

13:Standard Deviation Channel

14: Gann Lines

15: Gann Fan

16: Gann Grid

17: Fib Timezones

18: Fibonacci 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 and you can hide some of them by clicking the customize button key, then choose some of the items on right panel & 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, to save space on your MetaTrader 4 software workspace.