Indicators Insert Option in MT4 Platform Insert Menu
MT4 indicators, MT4 Technical Indicators can be found on the Insert Menu as a first option.
These best MetaTrader 4 Indicators option has a pop right button which shows the list of all the MT4 technical indicators under this option as illustrated below.
The best MetaTrader 4 indicators list is shown below as a popup menu, at the top is a list of the MetaTrader 4 indicators most popularly used within the MetaTrader 4 platform by the traders using this MetaTrader 4 software. This MT4 indices trading indictors list, which vary from platform to platform depending on indices software being used.
Best MetaTrader 4 Indicators List
On the above examples the most oftenly used MT4 Indicators, these are:
- Accelerator Oscillator
- Accumulation/Distribution
- Alligator
- ADX
- Average True Range Indicator
- Awesome Oscillator
Trend Based
These are pictured below:
These are:
- ADX
- Bollinger Band Indicator
- CCI
- Moving Average Indicator
- Parabolic SAR
- Standard Deviation
The Indices Trend Based Indicators will basically show general direction of the market. These trend technical indicators will either move upward in an upwards trend or down-wards in a downwards trend. (Or Sideways no direction /no trend).
A trader will therefore trade with the direction that is same as that indicated by these trend following indicators.
Oscillators
These Oscillators are illustrated & shown below:
These Indices Oscillators are:
- Average True Range Indicator
- Bears Power
- Bulls Power
- DeMarker
- Envelopes
- Force Index
- Ichimoku
- MACD
- Momentum
- Moving Average of Oscillator
- Relative Strength Index
- Relative Vigor Index
- Stochastic Oscillator
- William’s Percent Range
Volume Based
These are pictured below:
These indices volume indicators are:
- Accumulation/Distribution
- Money Flow Index
- On Balance Volume
- Volumes
Bill Williams
The MT4 Bill William Indices Indicators are pictured below, these were created by Bill Williams hence their grouping as Bill William:
The Bill William Indicators are:
- Accelerator Oscillator
- Alligator
- Awesome Oscillator
- Fractals
- Gator Oscillator
- Market Facilitation Index
Custom Indicators
These custom indicators are pictured below,
The Custom Technical Indicators are:
- Accelerator
- Accumulation
- Alligator
- ATR
- Awesome Oscillator
- Bollinger Bands Indicator
- Bears Power
- Bulls Power
- CCI
- Heiken Ashi
- Ichimoku
- iExposure
- MACD
- Momentum
- Moving Averages Indices Trading Indicator
- OsMA
- Parabolic SAR
- RSI
- Stochastic Oscillator
- Zigzag
The Sub Menu, within the MetaTrader 4 Indicators Insert Menu can be used to place these MT4 Indicators on a chart by selecting and then clicking on the MetaTrader 4 Technical Chart Indicator to place it on the chart.
Once you click on an MT4 indicator the following pop up will appear:
As a trader you can just click "OK" button key to place the MetaTrader 4 Indicator on the chart.
You can also change a few MetaTrader 4 Indicators setting, for example in the above MT4 Indicator you can set the color style to blue, change the line width and change the period used to calculate the MetaTrader 4 Indicator settings.
A level can also be added by choosing the 'Areas' button key as illustrated & shown below:
To add a level on a MetaTrader 4 indicator, just click the add button key & select the level where you want to add this levels, normally this is set as a number. Color of the level can also be changed on the style button key marked silver along with the format of the line & the width of the line.
The next button exemplified below, visualization button is used to determine which chart time frame MT4 indicator should appear on:
By default a MetaTrader 4 indicator is set to appear on all the chart timeframes, but you can untick the "All Time Frames" option and select fewer chart timeframes where you want the MetaTrader 4 indicator to appear on, for example by selecting only the M15, H1 & H4, this way it will not appear on any other chart apart from these three chart time frames - to have it show on all chart time frames just check the "All Time Frames" option. - Learn MT4 Indicators PDF Tutorial - Indicators MetaTrader 4 Trading Software
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