

Right-click to call the indicator's context menu. Or simply use the "+" and "–" keys to achieve this.ĭouble-click on or near indicators with the left mouse button, to call their parameter setup windows. Similarly, you can adjust the width of the price bars by moving the mouse into the horizontal axis area at the bottom of the screen, and then dragging right (zoom in) or left (zoom out). You can re-scale the chart vertically by moving the mouse into the vertical axis area at the right of the screen, and then dragging downwards (with the left button held down) to compress the chart bars, or dragging upwards to expand them.ĭouble click to reset the chart to its original scale. symbol, chart period example: GBPUSD, M30 EURUSD, D1 Vertical zoom and re-scale chart period example: M1 M5 M15 M30 H1 H4 D1 W1 MN Ħ.

You can also use the "Fast Navigation Box" to change either the currency symbol, or the period, thus: to position to 8:07am TODAY on a 1-min chart, simply type 8:7). To re-position to a certain date/time, use the format HH:MM or DD.MM.YY HH:MM (e.g. To re-position immediately to a certain date, press Enter, then type in the date in the form DD.MM.YY and press Enter again. Scrolling a chart beyond the leftmost bar will add historical bars to the beginning of the chart, until no more are available from MT4's historical database. To step backward one bar at a time, press Shift-F12. To step forward one bar at a time, press F12. To reposition to the leftmost bar on the chart, press Home.To reposition to the most recent (rightmost) bar, press End. To scroll a whole screen at a time, use Page Up (scroll left) and Page Down (scroll right). Or you can also simply roll the mousewheel down/up, or use the left/right arrow keys, to likewise scroll the chart view left/right. Hold down the left mouse button and drag the mouse in the main chart area, to scroll left/right. Use of the mouse and mousewheel, and their keyboard equivalents The following post used to be a sticky in the MetaTrader forum, but it appears to have been lost.
