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Line Studies Tool-Bar Menu on MT4

Sometimes traders will claim "oh, I can't find Fib extension tool on my MetaTrader 4 where can I get it?"

The thing is that all these line studies are located on the line studies toolbar: however, by default not all are set to display, therefore a indices trader must know where to get these tools that are not shown by default on the MetaTrader 4 Stock Software. So how can a stock index trader add a tool, to the line studies toolbar illustrated below?

Line Studies Toolbar Menu on MT4

Customize a Toolbar on Stock Indices Software

To add a tool not listed above a stock indices trader has to follow the steps below

  1. Right Click at the toolbar button to the left of this(Looks like a stack of coins)as displayed below

How Do I Customize and Add Tools on the Line Studies Toolbar in MT4?

3. Press customize 4. Add all Tools

Following customize panel popup will appear:

Add Line Tools to the Line Studies Toolbar on MT4 - Customizing Line Studies Toolbar Menu on MT4

Choose all the tools from the left window panel and add them: After adding this will look like:

Customize and Adding All Tools to the Line Studies Toolbar on MT4

The toolbar will now look like:

All Tools on Line Studies Toolbar in the MT4 Software

Explanation of Each Tool

The following is the explanation of each tool on this tool-bar.

Indices Line Studies Toolbar Menu

1: Choose mouse as cursor, change mouse pointer to the default cursor

2: Select Cross-Hair cursor, a type of cursor that maps coordinates to the axis of the charts

3: Draw a vertical line

4: Draw a Horizontal line

5: Draw a trend line

6: Equidistant Channel

7: Fib Retracement

8: Text button

9: Text Label Button

10: Fibo Expansion

11: Trend by Angle

12: Linear Regression Channel

13:Standard Deviation Channel

14: Gann Lines

15: Gann Fan

16: Gann Grid

17: Fibonacci Time zones

18: Fibonacci Fan

19: Fibo Arc

20: Cycle Lines

21: Andrew's Pitchfork

22: Insert Ellipse

23: Insert Triangle

24: Insert Rectangle

25: Fibonacci Channels

26: Draw Arrows

How to Remove Tools from Trading Platform

As a trader you'll not require all these button keys & you can hide some of them by clicking on customize button, then choose some of the items on right window and then choose hide.

How to Remove a Tool from the Lines Toolbar on MT4 - Stock Index MT4 Tool Bars Guide

Remove the above tools by clicking on them and then pressing remove button, to save space on your MT4 software workspace.

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