Place Moving Average Indicator on Stock Chart on MT4

This Lesson will explain how to place the Moving Average Indicator on a Chart in the MT4 Platform. For technical analysis: Technical analysis of trading MA.

How to Place Technical Indicators on Meta Trader 4 Indices Charts

Step 1: Open The Platform Navigator Window

Open Navigator window as illustrated and shown below: Navigate to "View" menu (click it) and then select "Navigator" panel (click), or From Standard Tool-Bar click on the "Navigator" button or press short-cut key-board keys "Ctrl+N"

On Navigator window, choose 'Technical Indicators', (Double Click)

Step 2: Expand the Indicators Menu on the Navigator

Expand the menu by clicking the expand button marked (+) or double click the "indicators" menu, after this the button key will then now appear as (-) and will now be shown as a listing as illustrated below.

From Above panel you then can add any indicator you want on Indices chart.

Placing MA on Indices Chart

Step 1: Select the Moving Average button key in MT4 list of indicators as displayed below:

Step 2: Double-click the Moving Average Button Key, and click okay to place the indicator on the chart as shown below:

Edit Indicator Setting

To Alter Setting, right-click on Indicator, choose properties setting and then edit the properties of indicator using popup menu that pops up and click ok button key once you change setting.

The following panel pop-up appears and Trading Indicator settings can be edited from this panel pop-up.