Periodicity Toolbar Menu on Indices Trading Platform
Periodicity just means chart timeframes, in MT4 this toolbar is used to select which chart time-frames to trade with.
The time frames listed are:
- 1 Min - M1
- 5 Min - M5
- 15 Min - M15
- 30 Min - M30
- 1 H - H1
- 4 Hours - H4
- Daily - D1
- Weekly - W1
- Monthly - MN
As a trader you only require to trade with only about Three chart time-frames, for examples let's say a trader only requires the 15 minute, the 1 hour and the 4 hours time frame, then on the periodicity toolbar a trader can hide all the others which are not required using the following method.
How to Customize
To add a tool that's not listed above a trader has to follow these steps
- Right-Click at the tool-bar button to the left (Looks like a stack of coins), shown below
2. Click customize
After following the above steps the customize window popup will appear as illustrated and shown below:
Select as displayed above & click remove button.
The window pop up will then look like:
On the platform the periodicity toolbar will now look like the examples illustrated below:
Using the above setup as a trader you can save space within your MetaTrader 4 platform workspace by hiding the timeframes which you are not trading with.