Indicators Insert Option in MT4 Platform Insert Menu
MT4 indicators, MetaTrader 4 Technical Indicators can be found on the Insert Menu as a first option.
These best MetaTrader 4 Indicators option has a pop right button which shows the list of all the MT4 indicators under this option as illustrated below.
The best MetaTrader 4 indicators list is shown below as a popup menu, at the top is a list of the MetaTrader 4 indicators most popularly used within the MetaTrader 4 platform by the traders using this MetaTrader 4 software. This MT4 indices trading indictors list, which vary from platform to platform depending on indices software being used.
Best MetaTrader 4 Indicators List
On the above examples the most oftenly used MT4 Indicators, these are:
- Accelerator Oscillator
- Accumulation/Distribution
- Alligator
- ADX
- Average True Range Indicator
- Awesome Oscillator
Indices Trend Based
These are shown below:
These are:
- ADX
- Bollinger Band Indicator
- CCI
- Moving Average Indicator
- Parabolic SAR
- Standard Deviation
The Indices Trend Based Technical Indicators will basically show general direction of the market. These indices trend technical indicators will either move upward in an upwards indices trend or downwards in a downwards trend. (Or Sideways no direction /no indices trend).
A trader will therefore trade with the direction that is same as that indicated by these indices trend following indicators.
Oscillators
These Oscillators are illustrated & shown below:
These Indices Oscillator Indicators are:
- Average True Range Indicator
- Bears Power
- Bulls Power
- DeMarker
- Envelopes
- Force Index
- Ichimoku
- MACD
- Momentum
- Moving Average of Oscillator
- Relative Strength Index
- Relative Vigor Index
- Stochastic Oscillator Indicator
- William’s Percent Range
Volume Based
These are shown below:
These indices volume indicators are:
- Accumulation/Distribution
- Money Flow Index
- On Balance Volume
- Volumes
Bill Williams
The MT4 Bill William Indicators are shown below, these were created by Bill Williams hence their grouping as Bill William:
The Bill William Indicators are:
- Accelerator Oscillator
- Alligator
- Awesome Oscillator
- Fractals
- Gator Oscillator
- Market Facilitation Index
Stock Indices Custom Indicators
These stock indices custom indicators are shown below,
The Custom Indicators are:
- Accelerator
- Accumulation
- Alligator
- ATR
- Awesome Oscillator
- Bollinger Bands Indicator
- Bears Power
- Bulls Power
- CCI
- Heiken Ashi
- Ichimoku
- iExposure
- MACD
- Momentum
- Moving Averages Indices Trading Technical Indicator
- OsMA
- Parabolic SAR
- RSI
- Stochastic Oscillator Indicator
- Zigzag
The Sub Menu, within the MetaTrader 4 Indicators Insert Menu can be used to place these MT4 Indicators on a chart by selecting and then clicking on the MetaTrader 4 Indices Technical Chart Indicator to place it on the chart.
Once you click on an MT4 indicator the following pop up will appear:
As a trader you can just click "OK" button key to place the MetaTrader 4 Indicator on the chart.
You can also change a few MetaTrader 4 Indicators setting, for example in the above MT4 Indicator you can set the color style to blue, change the line width and change the period used to calculate the MetaTrader 4 Indicator settings.
A level can also be added by choosing the 'Areas' button key as illustrated & shown below:
To add a level on a MetaTrader 4 indicator, just click the add button key & select the level where you want to add this levels, normally this is set as a number. Color of the level can also be changed on the style button key marked silver along with the format of the line & the width of the line.
The next button shown below, visualization button is used to determine which chart time-frame MT4 technical indicator should appear on:
By default a MetaTrader 4 indicator is set to appear on all the chart timeframes, but you can uncheck the "All Time frames" option and select fewer chart timeframes where you want the MetaTrader 4 indicator to appear on, for example by selecting only the M15, H1 & H4, this way it will not appear on any other chart apart from these three chart timeframes - to have it show on all chart timeframes just check the "All Time frames" option. - Learn MetaTrader 4 Indicators PDF Tutorial - Indicators MetaTrader 4 Indices Trading Platform
