Indicators Insert Option in MetaTrader 4 Platform Insert Menu
MetaTrader 4 indicators, MT4 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 listing of all the MetaTrader 4 technical 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 listing of the MT4 indicators most popularly used within the MT4 platform by the traders using this MT4 software platform. This MetaTrader 4 stock 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 MetaTrader 4 Indicators, these are:
- Accelerator Oscillator
- Accumulation/Distribution
- Alligator
- ADX
- ATR Indicator
- Awesome Oscillator
Trend Based
These are pictured below:
These are:
- ADX
- Bollinger ##BandsBand
- CCI
- MA Indicator
- Parabolic SAR
- Standard Deviation
The Trend Based Indicators will basically show general direction of the market. These trend technical indicators will either move upward in an upwards trend or down-wards in a downwards trend. (Or Sideways no direction /no trend).
A trader will therefore trade with the direction that's same as that indicated by these trend following indicators.
Oscillators
These Oscillators are illustrated and shown below:
These Oscillators are:
- ATR Indicator
- Bears Power
- Bulls Power
- DeMarker
- Envelopes
- Force Index
- Ichimoku
- MACD
- Momentum
- MA of Oscillator
- RSI
- Relative Vigor Index
- Stochastic
- Williams Percent Range
Volume Based
These are pictured below:
These volume indicators are:
- Accumulation/Distribution
- Money Flow Index
- On Balance Volume
- Volumes
Bill Williams
The MT4 Bill Williams Indicators are pictured below, these were developed 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
Custom Indicators
These custom indicators are pictured below,
The Custom Technical Indicators are:
- Accelerator
- Accumulation
- Alligator
- ATR
- Awesome Oscillator
- Bollinger Band Indicator
- Bears Power
- Bulls Power
- CCI
- Heiken Ashi
- Ichimoku
- iExposure
- MACD
- Momentum
- MAs Indicator
- OsMA
- Parabolic SAR
- RSI
- Stochastic
- 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 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 to place the MT4 Indicator on the chart.
You can also change a few MetaTrader 4 Indicators setting, for example in the above MetaTrader 4 Indicator you can set the color style to blue, change the line width and change the period used to calculate the MT4 Indicator settings.
A level can also be added by choosing the 'Areas' button as shown & displayed below:
To add a level on a MetaTrader 4 indicator, just click the add button & choose the level where you want to add this levels, normally this is set as a digit. Color of the level can also be changed on the style button key marked silver along with the format of the line and the width of the line.
The next button exemplified below, visualization button is used to figure out which chart time frame MT4 indicator should appear on:
By default a MetaTrader 4 indicator is set to appear on all the chart timeframes, but you can untick the "All Time Frames" option & select fewer chart timeframes where you want the MetaTrader 4 indicator to appear on, for example by selecting only the M15, 1 Hour & H4, this way it will not appear on any other chart apart from these three chart time frames - to have it show on all chart time frames just check the "All Time Frames" option. - Learn MT4 Indicators PDF Tutorial - Indicators MetaTrader 4 Software