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Line Studies Toolbar Menu on MT5

Sometimes traders will say "oh, I cannot find Fibonacci expansion tool on my MT5 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 displayed by default on the MT5 Indices Trading Platform. So how can a indices trader add a tool, to the line studies MetaTrader 5 toolbar shown below?

Line Studies Toolbar Menu on MT5

Customize a Toolbar

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

  1. Right Click at the MetaTrader 5 toolbar button to the left of this(Looks like a stack of coins)as shown below

How Do I Customize and Add Tools on the Line Studies Toolbar in MT5? - MetaTrader 5 Indices Trading Line Studies Toolbar Menu

3. Click customize 4. Add all Tools

The following customize popup window will appear:

Add Line Tools to the Line Studies Toolbar on MT5 - MT5 Stock Index Trading Line Studies Toolbar Menu

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

Customize and Adding All Tools to the Line Studies Toolbar on MT5 - MetaTrader 5 Stock Index Trading Line Studies Toolbar Menu

The MetaTrader 5 toolbar will now look like:

All Tools on Line Studies Toolbar in the MT5 Platform - MT5 Stock Indices Trading Line Studies Toolbar Menu

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Explanations of Each Tool

The following is the explanation of each tool on this toolbar.

Explanation of All Tools on the MT5 Platform Lines Toolbar - MT5 Indices Trading Line Studies Toolbar Menu - Customizing Indices Trading Line Studies Toolbar Menu in MT5

1: Select mouse as cursor, change mouse 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 indices trend line

6: Equidistant Channel

7: Fibonacci Retracement

8: Text button

9: Text Label Button

10: Fibonacci Expansion

11: indices 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: Fibonacci 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

As a indices trader you will not require all these buttons and you can hide some of them by clicking the customize button, then select some of the items on the right window and then select hide.

How to Remove a Tool from the Lines Toolbar on MT5 - MT5 Index Trading Line Studies Toolbar Menu

Remove the above tools by clicking on them and then clicking the remove button, so as to save space on your MT5 Indices Trading Platform workspace.

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