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Stock Index Indicators Insert Option on MT4 Insert Menu

MetaTrader 4 stock indices indicators can be found on the Insert Menu as the first option.

This option has a pop right button that shows the list of all the MetaTrader 4 indicators under this option as shown below.

How Do You Add Technical Indicators in MT4? - Stock Indices Trading Indicators for Index Trading

The list is shown below as a popup menu, at the top is a list of the ones most popularly used Indices indicators within the MetaTrader 4 trade software by the trader using this software. This list made up of 6 types of Stock Indices indicator groups, which vary from platform to platform depending on the platform being used.

How to Add Indicators in MT4 - Stock Index Trading Technical Indicators for Indices Trading

Commonly Used in the Example Above

On the above example the most commonly used, these are:

  1. Accelerator Oscillator
  2. Accumulation/Distribution
  3. Alligator
  4. Average Directional Movement Index
  5. Average True Range
  6. Awesome Oscillator

Trend Based

These are shown below:

How Do You Add Indicators on MT4? - Stock Index Trading Technical Indicators for Indices Trading

These are:

  1. Average Directional Movement Index
  2. Bollinger Band
  3. Commodity Channel Index
  4. Moving Average
  5. Parabolic SAR
  6. Standard Deviation

The Trend based will basically show the general direction of the market. These will either move upwards in an uptrend or downwards in a down trend. (Or Sideways no direction /no trend).

A Stock Indices trader will therefore trade with the direction that is the same as that indicated by these trend following.

Oscillators

These Oscillators are shown below:

How to Add Indicators on MT4 - Stock Index Trading Technical Indicators for Indices Trading

These Oscillator are:

  1. Average True Range
  2. Bears Power
  3. Bulls Power
  4. DeMarker
  5. Envelopes
  6. Force Index
  7. Ichimoku Kinko Hyo
  8. MACD
  9. Momentum
  10. Moving Average of Oscillator
  11. Relative Strength Index
  12. Relative Vigor Index
  13. Stochastic Oscillator
  14. William’s Percentage Range

Volume Based

These are shown below:

How to Add Indicators in MetaTrader 4 - How Do You Add Technical Indicators in MetaTrader 4?

These are:

  1. Accumulation/Distribution
  2. Money Flow Index
  3. On Balance Volume
  4. Volumes

Bill Williams

The MT4 Bill Williams Stock Indices indicators are shown below, these were developed by Bill Williams hence their grouping as Bill Williams:

How Do You Add Indicators on MetaTrader 4? - How Do You Add Indicators in MT4?

The Bill Williams are:

  1. Accelerator Oscillator
  2. Alligator
  3. Awesome Oscillator
  4. Fractals
  5. Gator Oscillator
  6. Market Facilitation Index

Custom Indicators

These are shown below,

How to Add Technical Indicators in MT4 - Index Trading Indicators for Index Trading

The Customs are:

  1. Accelerator
  2. Accumulation
  3. Alligator
  4. ATR
  5. Awesome
  6. Bands
  7. Bears
  8. Bulls
  9. CCI
  10. Heiken Ashi
  11. Ichimoku
  12. iExposure
  13. MACD
  14. Momentum
  15. Moving Averages
  16. OsMA
  17. Parabolic
  18. RSI
  19. Stochastic
  20. Zigzag

The Sub Menu, within the Insert Menu can be used to place these Stock Indices indicators on a trading chart by choosing & then clicking on it to place it on the chart.

Once you click on an indicator the following popup will appear:

How to Add Indicators on MetaTrader 4 - Stock Index Trading Indicators for Indices Trading

As a trader you can just click the 'OK' button to place it on the chart.

You can also change a few setting, for example in the above you can set the color style to blue, change the line width & change the period used to calculate the settings.

A level can also be added by choosing the 'Levels' button as is illustrated below:

Index Indicators Insert Menu in MetaTrader 4 Menu Options - How Do You Add Technical Indicators in MetaTrader 4?

To add a level, just click the add button key & select the level where you want to add this levels, normally this is set as a number. The color of the level can also be changed on the style button key marked silver along with the format of the line and the width of the line.

The next button shown below, visualization button key is used to determine which chart time frame it should appear on:

How Do You Add Indicators in MT4? - How Do You Add Indicators on MetaTrader 4?

By default an indicator is set to appear on all the chart time frames, but you can uncheck the "All Time frames" option and select fewer chart timeframes where you want it to appear on, for example by choosing only the M15, H1 & H4, this way it will not appear on any other apart from these three, to have it show on all just check the "All Time frames" option.

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