Displaying too many windows and tools on the trading platform can undoubtedly ruin your analysis and trading. To free up more space for chart analysis, you can turn off unnecessary windows and tools.
This article gives you some useful tips on how to customize mt4.
1. How to Show/Hide Window Panels on MT4
By default, all windows are displayed on the screen. However, to free up more space for trading manipulation such as chart analysis, you can close unnecessary windows:
- Click View at the top of the screen.
- Select the window you want to close. You can adjust the list of windows are Market Watch, Data Window, Navigator, Toolbox, Strategy Tester.
To close more quickly, click the X in the upper-right corner of the window you want to close. Then, all the changes you make will be saved automatically.
Instead, add more windows that don’t appear by default, click View -> choose your preferred window once again.
In addition, you can customize the location of each window. The MT4 client terminal works in the same way as the Windows operating system, which means that you can stretch and move around the window panels by clicking on the name of the displayed window, holding down the mouse and dragging it to the desired position.
2. How to Customize Toolbars on MT4
Similarly, the Toolbars window can also be customized according to your preferences.
Toobars is a place that contains many tools used to edit charts, place trading orders and open signals, etc. By default, the toolbar displays four main groups of functions, including:
- Standard – Perform the main functions of the software such as opening and closing Market Watch, Navigator, Terminal.tch, Navigator, Terminal.
- Line Studies – Manage drawing tools for editing charts.
- Time frames: Manage time intervals. On MT4, there are 9 time frames to choose from.
However, in some cases you do not use all available tools. Thus, you can hide them by:
- By clicking View at the top of the screen.
- By selecting Toolbars – > choose the group of functions that you want to disable.
Conversely, when you need to use a specific group of functions, you can set the display again by repeating the previous steps once again.
After understanding the interface displayed on MT4, you can easily configure it to your liking for convenience and personal use. You will find how to trade and make money from the financial market through the MT4 platform in the following articles
