Adjusting Properties on Charts Menu in MetaTrader 5

The last menu item in the charts menu on the MetaTrader 5 is the properties button. This button represents settings of the chart that is on the MetaTrader 5 workspace. The properties button on the charts menu is shown below.

Properties Button Key in MT5 for Editing Properties and Setting

Bitcoin Chart Properties

By clicking 'properties' button, following window popup will appear displaying the various settings for the chart. The examples below explain two examples with different settings.

Example 1:

Example 2:

The 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 - Colour of bars, bullish bar
Bar Down - Color of bars, bearish bar
Bull Candlestick - Color of candles, bullish candlestick
Bear Candle - Color of candles, bearish candlestick
Line Graph - Colour of Line
Volumes - Settings 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 the appearance of these two different settings shown on preview windows above.

The Colour 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 MT5 Bitcoin Trading Platform.

Candles Setting

Common Settings

On the properties window panel there's also next tab marked as 'Common' as shown and portrayed below, this button key is for common settings.

The following are The Common Settings that can be activated or deactivated using this window panel:

Offline, foreground option, shift option and auto scroll properties can also be activated or deactivated from properties common settings option as illustrated above.

Type of chart can be selected from this menu from the Options Bar, candlesticks and Line.

Show O.H.C.L., Show ASK Line, Show Period Separators, Show Grid, Show Volumes & Show Object Description option can be activated or deactivated on this common settings option as illustrated above.

To learn & know more about the above setting or to find out what a particular option means or what it displays you can download the MT5 Platform & practice placing these object on charts and changing some of these properties and settings.

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Adjusting Properties on Charts Menu in MetaTrader 5

Bitcoin Chart Properties

The Colour Scheme

Common Settings