You can use Ctrl-click to add individual items to a selection, Shift-click to add a group of consecutive items, or press Ctrl-A to select all items. To quickly delete a whole block of objects, repeatedly press Alt-D or hold it down (careful, they disappear rather quickly!)Ĭlick on the 'Name' or 'Description' heading area to sort by name, or description, respectively. Double click (or click the Edit button, or Alt-E) on an object to edit its properties (parameters, colors, etc), or click the Delete button (or Alt-D) to remove it from the chart. Left click the check boxes on/off to select/deselect relevant object(s). If the screen is cluttered with overlapping indicators and/or objects, making it too difficult to select the desired object(s), press Ctrl-B to call up the Objects dialog window. Right-click on a selected object to open its context menu. The number "X/Y" appears, where "X" = the width of the shape in candles, and "Y" = the height of the shape in pips. Shapes, trendlines, channels etc may be extended by dragging the handles on the relevant edges. Once selected, you can move an object by left clicking on it (or in the case of or trendline or shape, it's center handle) and dragging it to the desired destination. You can use the Home, End and Page/ arrow Up/ Down keys to navigate up/down the list.ĭouble-click on or near an object (line studies, texts, arrows, geometric shapes) to select the object. Double click (or click the Edit button, or Alt-E) on the indicator to edit its properties (parameters, colors, etc), or click the Delete button (or Alt-D) to remove it from the chart. If the screen is cluttered with overlapping indicators and/or objects, making it too difficult to select the desired indicator, press Ctrl-I to call up the Indicators dialog window. Right-click to call the indicator's context menu. Or simply use the "+" and "–" keys to achieve this.ĭouble-click on or near indicators with the left mouse button, to call their parameter setup windows. Similarly, you can adjust the width of the price bars by moving the mouse into the horizontal axis area at the bottom of the screen, and then dragging right (zoom in) or left (zoom out). You can re-scale the chart vertically by moving the mouse into the vertical axis area at the right of the screen, and then dragging downwards (with the left button held down) to compress the chart bars, or dragging upwards to expand them.ĭouble click to reset the chart to its original scale.
symbol, chart period example: GBPUSD, M30 EURUSD, D1 Vertical zoom and re-scale
chart period example: M1 M5 M15 M30 H1 H4 D1 W1 MN Ħ. You can also use the "Fast Navigation Box" to change either the currency symbol, or the period, thus: to position to 8:07am TODAY on a 1-min chart, simply type 8:7). To re-position to a certain date/time, use the format HH:MM or DD.MM.YY HH:MM (e.g. To re-position immediately to a certain date, press Enter, then type in the date in the form DD.MM.YY and press Enter again. Scrolling a chart beyond the leftmost bar will add historical bars to the beginning of the chart, until no more are available from MT4's historical database. To step backward one bar at a time, press Shift-F12. To step forward one bar at a time, press F12. To reposition to the leftmost bar on the chart, press Home.To reposition to the most recent (rightmost) bar, press End. To scroll a whole screen at a time, use Page Up (scroll left) and Page Down (scroll right). Or you can also simply roll the mousewheel down/up, or use the left/right arrow keys, to likewise scroll the chart view left/right. Hold down the left mouse button and drag the mouse in the main chart area, to scroll left/right. Use of the mouse and mousewheel, and their keyboard equivalents The following post used to be a sticky in the MetaTrader forum, but it appears to have been lost.
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