Place Moving Average Technical Indicator on Stock Index Chart on MetaTrader 4

This Tutorial will explain how to place the Moving Average Stock Index Indicator on a Stock Index Chart in the MT4 Platform. For technical analysis: Technical analysis of stock indices Moving Average.

How to Place Indices Indicators on MetaTrader 4 Indices Charts

Step 1: Open The Platform Navigator Window

Open Navigator window as shown & illustrated below: Go to 'View' menu (click on it), then choose the 'Navigator' window (click), or From Standard Tool Bar click the 'Navigator' button or press keyboard short cut keys 'Ctrl+N'

On the Navigator window panel, choose 'Technical Indicators', (DoubleClick)

Step 2: Expand the Indices Technical Indicators Menu on the Navigator

Expand menu by clicking the expand button mark (+) or double-click the 'indicators' menu, after this the button key will then now appear as (-) and will now be shown as a list as shown below.

From Above window panel you can then place any technical indicator you want on the Indices chart.

Placing Moving Average on Indices Chart

Step 1: Select the Moving Average button on the MT4 list of technical indicators as shown below:

Step 2: Double click the Moving Average Button Key, and click okay to place the indicator on the stock indices trading chart as shown below:

Edit Technical Indicator Settings

To Adjust the Settings, right click on the Technical Indicator, select properties and then edit properties of technical indicator using the popup menu that pops up and then click ok button key after you have changed settings.

The following popup window appears & Trading Technical Indicator settings can be edited from this pop up.