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Line Studies Toolbar Menu on MT5

Sometimes traders will say "oh, I can't 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 tool bar: however, by default not all are set to display, therefore a trader must know where to get these tools that are not shown by default on the MT5 Indices Software. So how can a trader add a tool, to the line studies MT5 toolbar shown below?

Line Studies Toolbar Menu on MT5 - How to Use Toolbars Menu in MetaTrader 5

Customize a Toolbar on Indices Trading Platform

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

  1. Right-Click at MT5 tool bar 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 MT5? - MT5 Indices Trading Line Studies Toolbar Menu

3. Click customize 4. Add all Tools

The following customize window pop up will appear:

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

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

Customize and Adding All Tools to the Line Studies Toolbar on MT5

The MT5 tool-bar will now look like:

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

Explanations of Each Tool

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

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

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: Fib Retracement

8: Text button

9: Text Label Button Key

10: Fibonacci Expansion

11: indices trend by Angle

12: Linear Regression Channel

13:Standard Deviations Channel

14: Gann Lines

15: Gann Fan

16: Gann Grid

17: Fibo Time zones

18: Fib 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 Stock Indices Trading Software

As a trader you'll not require all these button keys and you can hide some of them by clicking on customize button key, then select some of the items on 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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