Customizing and Arranging Charts Toolbars on MT5

Charts Tool-Bars are the most widely used tools in the MT5 platform. Therefore, the name MT5 toolbars: meaning a list in bar format of the most commonly used tools in the trading platform. These are used mostly for trading, placing technical indicators, placing cryptocurrency technical analysis indicators, placing Expert Advisors or plotting line studies.

There are four main ones are illustrated & displayed below.

Names of Tool-Bars

There are 4 main toolbars, these are named:

1. Standard
2. Charts
3. Line Studies
4. Periodicity

These are listed below:

All these 4 will be covered in different tutorials, However, for now let's look at How Do You Customize The Bars?

How to Customize

For customizing, a trader can either move the MT5 tool-bar to a different location, maybe a little to the left or to the right. Or another option is to add or remove MT5 buttons from its list.

Moving a Tool Bar on BTCUSD Crypto Platform Software

To move, follow the procedure below:

Step 1: Click & Hold Down Mouse Button Key at the position Shown below.

Step 2: While still holding down the mouse button, drag the mouse to position 2 as shown below and release the mouse button, this will move MT5 tool bar to the new position (position 2.)

Adding Buttons to Bitcoin Crypto Currency Trading Platform Software

Step1: Right Click the customize button as Shown Below:

Next Step: For this Example we shall use the Customize Popup Window Panel

After clicking customize as shown above, the following pop up pops up:

Step1: Choose Any Tool on the Left, To add it Click insert button on middle as shown above.

For example choosing Fibo Expansion and pressing insert will add this indicator in the Right side Window Panel named 'Chosen'

To move the indicator up or down use the UP or DOWN Button on the right side, shown above:

the MetaTrader 5 tool bar will now look like:

Customizing Tool-Bars : If there is any tool that is not placed on list, you can use this option to place it to the list, just like the example above where Fibo Expansion was not listed and now it has been added. If you do not know where an item is located & on which toolbar, right click in customize button on the left side of any of the four tool-bars, & view a listing of all the names of all items which can be added, these will be on the left window on this customize window.

Also you can remove some tools, the ones you do not use, so as to save on space also, for example if you trade only with 15 minute, 1 Hour & 4 Hour charts, you can hide all other timeframes on the Periodicity bar & remaining with only these Three timeframes.

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