Periodicity Toolbar Menu on Crude Oil Trading Platform
Periodicity just means chart timeframes, in MT4 this toolbar is used to select which chart time frames to trade with.
The time frames listed are:
- 1 Min - M1
- 5 Min - M5
- 15 Min - M15
- 30 Min - M30
- 1 H - H1
- 4 Hours - H4
- Daily - D1
- Weekly - W1
- Monthly - MN
As a trader you only require to trade with only about Three chart time frames, for example let's say a trader only requires the 15 minute, the 1 hour and the 4 hours time frame, then on the periodicity toolbar a trader can hide all the others which are not required using the following method.
How to Customize
To add a tool not listed above a trader has to follow steps below
- Right-Click at the tool-bar button to the left (Looks like a stack of coins), displayed below
2. Click customize
After following the above steps the customize pop up window will appear as shown below:
Select as shown above & click the remove button key.
The popup panel will then look like:
On the platform the periodicity toolbar will now look like the example shown below:
Using the above setup as a trader you can save space within your MT4 crude oil trading platform work space by hiding the time frames which you are not trading with.