Grid, Volumes, Auto Scroll and MetaTrader 4 Stock Chart Shift Options on MT4
Grid
The MT4 grid button on the charts menu option of the MetaTrader 4 Stocks Platform is used to draw grid lines as shown below. A trader may prefer to trade with grids on the stock chart or not and will use this button to show or hide the Grid.
The MT4 Grid button is shown below (Short cut for this menu is Ctrl+G)
Volumes
Volumes in Stocks Trading represent tick volumes or the number of times the tick for stocks price changes during a particular time period. The more the tick changes the more the volumes. These volumes in Stocks Trading are used to estimate the number of stocks traders participating in the stocks market.
Volumes are drawn as green bars below each stocks candlestick, and the height of these green bars represent the tick volume for a particular candlestick. ( Shot cut keys for Volumes: Ctrl+L )
Auto Scroll
Auto scroll option when activated will automatically scroll to the most recent stocks candlestick bar for every stocks chart that is opened. Therefore, the most recent information is displayed and as a trader you do not have to scroll to these recent stocks candlestick bars every time you open a new stocks chart.
Stocks Trading Chart Shift
This MetaTrader 4 Stock Charts Shift button is used to shift the stock chart more towards the center, instead of the last candlestick being right at the right side of the MT4 stock platform, the MT4 stocks charts shift button will shift the most recent stocks candlestick towards the center. Stocks traders prefer to trade with most recent stocks candlestick shifted toward the middle - this makes it easier to analyze the stock chart stocks price movements when they are more towards the center.
For example, the MetaTrader 4 Stock Charts Shift button is shown below as an arrow pointing down, by pressing this MT4 stocks charts shift button within the chart menus(highlighted below by a rectangle), the last stocks candlestick will shift from the right and move up to this point as shown in the MetaTrader 4 Stock Charts Shift example shown below.
MetaTrader 4 charts menu options of showing grids, volumes and activating the auto scroll option for automatic scrolling to the most recent candlestick bar and also the MetaTrader 4 stocks charts shift button for shifting the last stocks candlestick towards the center.
