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Periodicity Tool Bar Menu in Trading Software

"Periodicity" simply refers to timeframes: this toolbar within MT4 is designated for selecting the temporal dimensions for trading.

MT4 Periodicity Toolbar - Time Frames for Stock and Index Trading

The time-frame listed are:

  1. 1 Min - M1
  2. 5 Min - M5
  3. 15 Min - M15
  4. 30 Minutes - M30
  5. 1H - 1H
  6. 4 Hour - H4
  7. Daily - D1
  8. Weekly - W1
  9. Monthly - MN

As a index trader you only require to trade with only about 3 chart time frames, for example let's say a indices trader only requires the 15 minute, the 1 hour and the 4 hours timeframe, then on the periodicity tool bar a trader can hide all the others which are not required using the following method.

How to Customize

To add a tool that's not listed above a trader has to follow these steps

  1. Right-Click at the tool-bar button to the left (Looks like a stack of coins), shown & illustrated below

Customize Timeframe Toolbar on MT4 - Set Chart Periods in MT4

2. Click on customize

After these steps, the customize window pops up. It's shown in the image below.

Choosing and Removing Time Frames in MT4 Toolbar - Managing Chart Periods on MT4

Select like displayed above & press remove button.

The window pop up then will look like:

Remove Time Frames from MT4 Periodicity Toolbar - Index Trading Time Frame Menu Tips

On the platform, the periodicity toolbar will now resemble the illustrations shown below:

Picking Three Time Frames for Trading in MT4 Toolbar - Index Time Frame Menu Tips

With this setup, stock index traders can tidy up their MetaTrader 4 workspace by hiding any time-frames they're not using.

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