Grid, Volumes, AutoScroll and MT4 Indices Chart Shift Options in MT4
Grid
The MT4 grid button located in the charts menu option of the MT4 Indices Software is employed to draw grid lines, as illustrated below. A trader may choose to trade with grid lines displayed on a stock chart or not, utilizing this button to toggle the visibility of the grid.
The MT4 Grid button key is displayed below (Short-cut for this menu is Ctrl+G)
Volumes
Volumes in the Indices sector represent tick activities or how frequently the stock price tick changes during a given timeframe. Heightened tick variations correspond to increased volumes. These volumes for Indices are utilized to estimate the number of traders actively participating in the stock exchange.
Volumes are drawn as green bars below each candlestick, & the height of these green bars represents the tick volumes for a particular candle. ( Shotcut keys for Volumes: Ctrl+L )
Auto Scroll
Auto scroll when it is activated will automatically scroll to most current indices candle stick bar for every chart that's opened. Therefore, most recent information is displayed and as a trader you do not have to scroll to these recent indices candle bars every time you open a new stock chart.
Stock Chart Shift
The MT4 Indices Chart Shift button moves the stock chart more to the middle. Instead of the newest candlestick being on the right side of the MetaTrader 4 program, this button moves the newest candle toward the middle. Indices traders like having the newest candle in the middle because it makes it simpler to understand price changes when they're closer to the center.
For example, the MT4 Indices Charts Shift button is illustrated below as an arrow pointing down, by pressing this MT4 charts shift button within the trading chart menus(highlighted below by a rectangle), the last candlestick will shift from the right and move up to this point as is shown in the MT4 Indices Charts Shift illustrations shown below.
MetaTrader 4 charts menu options of showing grids, volumes and activating the auto scroll option for the automatic scrolling to the most recent candle bar and also the MT4 chart shift button for moving the last indices candle toward the center.
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