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Line Studies Toolbar Menu on MT4

Sometimes traders will say "oh, I can't find Fibonacci expansion tool on my MT4 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 MT4 Stock Indices Software. So how can a trader add a tool, to the line studies tool bar shown below?

Line Studies Toolbar Menu on MT4

Customize a Toolbar on Stock Indices Trading Platform

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

  1. Right Click at the tool-bar button key 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 MT4?

3. Click customize 4. Add all Tools

Following customize window pop up will appear:

Add Line Tools to the Line Studies Toolbar on MT4

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

Customize and Adding All Tools to the Line Studies Toolbar on MT4

The toolbar will now look like:

All Tools on Line Studies Toolbar in the MT4 Software

Explanations of Each Tool

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

Indices Line Studies Toolbar Menu

1: Choose 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 Key

10: Fibo Expansion

11: Indices Trend by Angle

12: Linear Regression Channel

13:Standard Deviation Channel

14: Gann Lines

15: Gann Fan

16: Gann Grid

17: Fib 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 & you can hide some of them by clicking on customize button key, then choose some of the items on right window and then choose hide.

How to Remove a Tool from the Lines Toolbar on MT4 - Stock Index Trading MT4 Tool Bars Tutorial

Remove the above tools by clicking on them and then clicking the remove button, so as to save space on your MetaTrader 4 software workspace.


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