User interface - Main menu - Chart menu

Hi folks,

Today we are going to study one of the most used MetaTrader's menus; the Chart menu.

The chart menu (Figure 1) enables you to work effectively with the charts and the attached indicators and objects. You will spend 50% of your menu work in this important menu so, let's CHART!

Figure 1 - Chart menu 

These are the commands available in the Chart menu:

Indicators List:

Clicking this command will open to you Indicators Manager window (Figure 2). In this window you will find all the attached indicators to the active chart grouped by the drawn window (Main window , separate window(s)).

Figure 2 - Indicators Manager window

You can delete any attached indicator on  the chart by selecting it from the Indicators Manager then clicking Delete button. And you can to change the settings of any indicator by selecting it then clicking Edit button.

Note: Edit button will open the Indicator Settings window (Figure 3).

Figure 3 - Indicator Settings window

You can access the same action of this commend by clicking the right mouse button on the chart and that will open a context menu (Figure 4) which you can choose the Indicators List command from it or simply you can hit the CTRL+I hotkeys to access the same action.

Figure 4 - Context menu

Objects:

Clicking this command will open a sub-menu (Figure 5) enables you to manage all the drawn Objects on your chart.

Figure 5 - Objects sub-menu

These are the commands of this sub-menu:

Objects List:

Delete Last:

Delete All Selected:

Delete All Arrows:

Unselect All:

Undo Delete: