MT4 click and drag chart

Most charting platforms give you the ability to right click on the chart and drag it around. vertically and horizontally. MT4 only moves horizontally which is irritating for me as Im used to moving it freely.

Also, is there a way to use the mouse wheel to adjust the chart scale instead of having to click and drag the scale part?

Thanks.

You should read the help docs.

i did! Honestly thought I had tried that. Thanks for the screenshot its working now.

No argument from me that he should read the docs, regardless, but in his defense...

These are not the most obvious things to find.

1) To click-and-drag around a chart:
Using "Scale Fix" is the only thing necessary to then be able to "pan" (click-and-drag) around the chart up-or-down-right-or-left.
So long as you haven't also selected the "Scale fix One to One", then you can still drag over the Y-axis prices to change the price scale.

2) Using a mouse wheel to control the chart.
In MT4, assuming you turn off auto-Scroll, then you can use a mouse wheel scroll to move around in time.
Holding down the shift-key and/or the Cntl key at the same time as a wheel scroll makes no difference.

However, in MT5, holding the Cntl key down at the same time as a wheel scroll with zoom-in/zoom-out (making bars dense or spread out).

It would be a perfectly nice useful MT5 enhancement if holding the Shift key during a wheel scroll would in fact zoom the Y-axis price! One would not have to drag-over-the-Y-axis prices any more.


By the way...

In MT4, the "Scale fix One to One" is, actually, 1-true-pip-to-1-bar (meaning 10 pipettes). That is usually a good scale for Forex charts, at least ~H1 anyway.
With a fixed scale, then the measurement of "angles" actually is consistent, and can be useful, because it's a direct measurement of slope. In other words, a 45-degree line is truly 1-pip/bar slope.

Unfortunately, in MT5, the "Scale fix One to One" is 1-pipette-to-1-bar, which is a totally useless scale for Forex. It's way too zoomed in, showing too little of price.

One will point out that with MT5, you can control the "Scale points per bar", but... you would be wrong that it's accurate. (MT5, b1881, 09 Jul 2018). Try it! Set it to a value of "10". Draw a trendline which is 100 pipettes rise in 10 bars. It should be a 45-degree line, the same as MT4 "Scale fix One to One", but it's not. Furthermore, the angle varies as one changes the height of the chart. Huh?? It's supposed to be 10 points per BAR. When I change the chart height, it ought just display a larger number of prices on the Y-axis, but still keep the slope of my line the same. It doesn't. (It does only when using "Scale fix One to One", but as I said, this scale is only useful in MT4 (1pip/bar) but useless in MT5 due to the scale (1pipette/bar) ).

(Does anyone do any QA work at all at MetaTrader? MT5 should be solid by now, yet these are just the most obvious of bugs. I'm amazed. I'm further amazed that they no longer take bug/enh "Service Requests" to report such issues. Rather, they send everyone to their Forum to make posts to report such issues. Wow. Stunned.).

My thoughts on MT - it's a wonder they didn't buy the rights to the very best of the aftermarket indicators and utilities and incorporate them into the platform

in much the same way that Microsoft bought up programs like Excel and Word

I guess the difference is that Microsoft is sold while MT is free

Maybe that is the change that is needed, who will pay for a far superior version of MT4 ??

I would like to have some help regarding the same issue here -

When I'm using the chart I cant freely move like on Tradingview where I can place the candles wherever I want on the monitor. However on Metatrader it forces to me to a certain vertical level and it makes a hard time seeing candles because they get to wide.

I would want the candles to be shown by the yellow line but cant move it vertically.



Pls help

this indi will solve your issue..probably

https://www.forexfactory.com/thread/...2#post13004642

in addition to it, you may try this one to easily drag the chart:

https://www.mql5.com/en/market/produ...art+autoscroll