Setting Properties on Stock Charts Menu in MetaTrader 4
The last menu item in the charts menu on the MT4 is the properties button. This button represents settings of the chart that is on the MT4 workspace. The properties button on the charts menu is shown below.
Properties Button Key in MetaTrader 4 for Editing Properties and Setting
Stocks Chart Properties
By clicking the "properties" button, the following pop up window will appear displaying various settings for chart. The examples below show two examples with different settings.
Example 1:
Example 2:
following properties can be adjusted from the above menu:
- Back ground - change background
- Fore ground - change foreground, objects in the foreground
- Grid - place or remove the grid
- Bar Up - Color of bars, bullish bar
- Bar Down - Color of bars, bearish bar
- Bull Candlestick - Color of candlesticks, bullish candlestick
- Bear Candle - Color of candlesticks, bearish candlestick
- Line Graph - Color of Line
- Volumes - Setting of Volumes
- Ask Line - Setting of Ask Line
- Stop Levels - Setting of the Stop Levels Line
In the above two example these properties are different & thus the difference in appearance of these two different settings illustrated on the preview window above.
The Color Scheme
The chart properties window also lists three color scheme as shown below that traders can load and these color schemes are the default pre saved color schemes of the MT4 stock platform.
Candles Setting
Common Settings
On the properties window there is also the next tab marked as "Common" as shown below, this button key is for common settings.
The following are The Common Settings that can be activated or deactivated using this panel:
Offline, foreground option, shift option and automated scroll properties can also be activated or deactivated from the properties common settings option as displayed above.
Type of chart can be chosen from this menu from the Options Bar, Candles & Line.
Show O H C L, Show ASK Line, Show Period Separators, Show Grid, Show Volumes and Show Object Description option can be activated or deactivated on this common setting option as shown above.
To learn more about the above setting or to find out what a particular option means or what it displays you can download the MT4 Platform & practice placing these object on charts & changing some of these properties and settings.
