ProTrader
Forex Supporter
Use of the mouse and mousewheel, and their keyboard equivalents
Scrolling the chart
Moving directly to a certain date/time
Vertical zoom and re-scale
Horizontal zoom and re-scale
Indicators
Objects
Scrolling the chart
Hold down the left mouse button and drag the mouse in the main chart area, to scroll left/right.
Or you can also simply roll the mousewheel down/up, or use the left/right arrow keys, to likewise scroll the chart view left/right.
To scroll a whole screen at a time, use
Page UpOr you can also simply roll the mousewheel down/up, or use the left/right arrow keys, to likewise scroll the chart view left/right.
To scroll a whole screen at a time, use
(scroll left) and
Page Down (scroll right).
To reposition to the leftmost bar on the chart, press
HomeTo reposition to the leftmost bar on the chart, press
.To reposition to the most recent (rightmost) bar, press
End.
To step forward one bar at a time, press
F12To step forward one bar at a time, press
.
To step backward one bar at a time, press
Shift-F12To step backward one bar at a time, press
.
Scrolling a chart
beyond the leftmost barScrolling a chart
will add historical bars to the beginning of the chart, until no more are available from MT4's historical database.
Moving directly to a certain date/time
To re-position immediately to a certain date, press
Enter, then type in the date in the form DD.MM.YY and press Enter again. Leading zeros can be omitted (e.g. to move to 4 July 2005, type 4.7.5). To re-position to a certain date/time, use the format HH:MM or DD.MM.YY HH:MM (e.g. to position to 8:07am TODAY on a 1-min chart, simply type 8:7).
Vertical zoom and re-scale
You can re-scale the chart vertically by moving the mouse into the vertical axis area at the right of the screen, and then dragging downwards (with the left button held down) to compress the chart bars, or dragging upwards to expand them.
Double click to reset the chart to its original scale.
Double click to reset the chart to its original scale.
Horizontal zoom and re-scale
Similarly, you can adjust the width of the price bars by moving the mouse into the horizontal axis area at the bottom of the screen, and then dragging right (zoom in) or left (zoom out). Or simply use the "+" and "–" keys to achieve this.
Indicators
Double-click on or near indicators with the left mouse button, to call their parameter setup windows.
Right-click to call the indicator's context menu.
If the screen is cluttered with overlapping indicators and/or objects, making it too difficult to select the desired indicator, press
Ctrl-IRight-click to call the indicator's context menu.
If the screen is cluttered with overlapping indicators and/or objects, making it too difficult to select the desired indicator, press
to call up the Indicators dialog window. Double click (or click the Edit button, or
Alt-E) on the indicator to edit its properties (parameters, colors, etc), or click the Delete button (or
Alt-D) to remove it from the chart.
You can use the
HomeYou can use the
,
Endand
Page/
arrowUp/
Downkeys to navigate up/down the list.
Objects
Double-click on or near an object (line studies, texts, arrows, geometric shapes) to select the object. Once selected, you can move an object by left clicking on it (or in the case of or trendline or shape, it's center handle) and dragging it to the desired destination. Shapes, trendlines, channels etc may be extended by dragging the handles on the relevant edges. The number "X/Y" appears, where "X" = the width of the shape in candles, and "Y" = the height of the shape in pips.
Right-click on a selected object to open its context menu.
If the screen is cluttered with overlapping indicators and/or objects, making it too difficult to select the desired object(s), press
Ctrl-BRight-click on a selected object to open its context menu.
If the screen is cluttered with overlapping indicators and/or objects, making it too difficult to select the desired object(s), press
to call up the Objects dialog window. Left click the check boxes on/off to select/deselect relevant object(s). Double click (or click the Edit button, or
Alt-E) on an object to edit its properties (parameters, colors, etc), or click the Delete button (or
Alt-D) to remove it from the chart. To quickly delete a whole block of objects, repeatedly press
Alt-Dor hold it down (careful, they disappear rather quickly!)
You can use the
HomeYou can use the
,
Endand
Page/
arrowUp/
Downkeys to navigate up/down the list.
Click on the 'Name' or 'Description' heading area to sort by name, or description, respectively.
Left-click to select an item. You can use Ctrl-click to add individual items to a selection, Shift-click to add a group of consecutive items, or press
Ctrl-A Click on the 'Name' or 'Description' heading area to sort by name, or description, respectively.
Left-click to select an item. You can use Ctrl-click to add individual items to a selection, Shift-click to add a group of consecutive items, or press
to select all items. Then click the Edit button (or press
Alt-E) to edit all items in the group consecutively, or the Delete button (or press
Alt-D) to delete all selected items simultaneously (careful!).
Alternatively, from the chart window, press
BackspaceAlternatively, from the chart window, press
repeatedly to delete the most recently added object(s) on a last-added-first-removed basis (useful if you want to quickly check out a Fibo or regression channel, then remove it). Then press
Ctrl-Zto undo any accidental deletes, in reverse order.
Or press the
DeleteOr press the
key to remove ALL SELECTED objects.