Templates on the Charts Menu in the MT4 Software

Templates option is provided within the trading charts menu on the MT4 trading platform. MT4 template is used by many traders to save their indices systems, this way they can load the system on a new chart directly from this template option without having to put the chart technical indicators one by one every time they open a new chart. MT4 Change Template - traders can also use these MetaTrader 4 template option to save more than one indices trading templates & they keep changing from one template to another when trading in MetaTrader 4 charts

The Templates Option on the MetaTrader 4 Software is Shown Below:

Save a Indices System as a Template in MetaTrader 4 Software

For example as a trader you might come up with a system shown below.

This trading system takes 5 min to set up, It would take you 5 minutes to set it on every chart you open. But the MT4 chart template will save you this time by saving this trading system as a stock indices MetaTrader 4 template and to place this MetaTrader 4 chart template on another chart you only need to load the template on the Meta Trader 4 platform.

To save the above indices system you'll open the templates button within the charts menu in MT4 and use the save template option.

After selecting the save template button key the following popup will appear & you as a trader can use save the MT4 stock chart template & give it a name as displayed & shown below.

First step is to give the MetaTrader 4 chart template a name, we name our MetaTrader 4 template as tradeforextrading and click the save button.

Load a Template on MetaTrader 4

To load a template on the MT4 platform, go the charts menu on the MetaTrader 4 platform select the templates button and select the submenu item for load template. This will load the named template on to the new chart as shown below.

The named template on the MetaTrader 4 platform is shown on the list above: this is a short cut for the available templates that have been saved on the MT4 platform. Another option can be to use the "Load Template", which is the second option marked as "Load Template" on the template menu sub items on the MetaTrader 4.

Remove Template on MetaTrader 4

The third option in the MetaTrader 4 template sub menus is the remove template; this sub menu item will remove any MT4 chart template that's loaded on the chart.