Crude Oil Trading Chart Timeframes
MT4 Oil Trade Chart Time-Frames: Periodicity on Crude Oil Trading Charts in MT4
Periodicity is commonly referred to as Oil Trading Chart Time Frames by many crude oil traders. On the MT4 crude oil trading software.
The button key below is used to choose the periodicity or oil chart timeframe to trade with. This button can be accessed on the MT4 platform as illustrated below.
MT4 Oil Trading Chart Timeframe Oil Trading Charts
On the MetaTrader 4 crude oil trading platform these oil chart time frames are:
- 1 Min Chart Time Frame - M1
- 5 Minutes Chart Time-frame - M5
- 15 Minutes Chart Time-frame - M15
- 30 Minutes Chart Time Frame - M30
- 1 H Chart Time Frame - H1
- 4 Hours Chart Time Frame - H4
- Daily Chart Time Frame - D1
- Weekly Chart Time Frame - W1
- Monthly Chart Time-frame - MN
How to Know Which Crude Oil Chart Timeframe You are Using
A common question especially if you are new to oil trading would be how to identify which oil chart timeframe you are using on your MT4 crude oil trading platform:
There are various methods of knowing which MetaTrader 4 oil chart timeframe you are using as Shown below:
Use the above Menu as Shown above
In the above crude oil trading example once you select the periodicity button under the charts menu, then the list of crude oil MetaTrader 4 oil chart timeframes is shown and the crude oil chart timeframe that is currently selected, the one that you are using will be highlighted with a different color, on our above example this is the 1 Hour(H1) oil chart timeframe, whose Icon on the left is highlighted in light blue.
How to Use Periodicity Toolbar - MetaTrader 4 Oil Trading Chart Change Chart Time-frame
This MT4 periodicity toolbar is by default located at the top of the MT4 crude oil software and has all the crude oil chart timeframes marked as shown below. The chart timeframe that a trader is using will be marked differently from other oil chart timeframes, the selected oil chart timeframe will be "indented" as shown below:
Use the data displayed at the tops left corner to get MetaTrader 4 Oil Trading Chart Time-frame
At the top left corner of MT4 crude oil chart, the MT4 oil chart time-frame is displayed as shown below:
1 H MT4 Oil Trading Chart Time-frame
15 Min MetaTrader 4 Oil Trading Chart Time-frame
When you open a oil chart you can then use the above three methods to know which periodicity - oil chart timeframe you're trading with.
You can also use the tabs, if you're trading many oil charts. To view this tab, Go to "View Menu" then Select "Charts Bar". The following MT4 bar will appear that you can use to navigate and it indicates the oil trading instrument as well as the crude oil chart time frame.
Navigation tabs on MT4 platform workspace.
