What is MetaTrader 4 Indices Charts Tabs?

When you open many indices charts on the MT4 indices trading software, these stock indices charts are arranged in navigation tabs bar just below the MetaTrader 4 stock indices chart workspace as shown below.

If on your MetaTrader 4 software this display bar isn't highlighted - as in the examples shown above - you can follow the following procedure to show this MetaTrader 4 bar as well as these MT4 tabs.

On the "View" menu drop down list option, the fourth button is named "Charts Bar" as shown above. To view this display bar on the MetaTrader 4 platform just click and check or tick this button and the it will appear as shown below displaying all the open indices charts as tabs that a trader can use to open any of these listed stock indices charts.

Once you tick this option the MT4 bar appears and this MetaTrader 4 bar also has right and left arrows that a trader can use to scroll to the left or to the right and navigate other open indices charts from this MT4 bar.

These MT4 stock indices chart tabs are used to organize all the open indices charts in MetaTrader 4 platform in an orderly manner. This MT4 tab also gives the trader easy access to any stock indices chart that they may have opened.

As the trader continues to open more stock indices charts, this MT4 Bar of chart tabs adds navigation arrows to the right and to the left of this MT4 bar, this way a trader can scroll to the left or to the right of this MetaTrader 4 bar of chart tabs until they find the stock indices chart that they want to trade.

For ease of navigation each tab on this MT4 bar also shows the stock indices chart timeframe for which this particular stock indices chart is set for. The last MetaTrader 4 Tab does not show the stock indices chart timeframe and a trader has to use the right and left scroll arrow buttons next to this tab to navigate. Once the trader reaches one end that arrow is then grayed out - as shown above, the right arrow scroll button above is grayed because the first stock indices chart - stock indices chart is the first stock indices chart on the right side of this MT4 bar.