Meta Trader 4 chart shift customization

Hi, MT4's chart shift option makes the most recent price bar shifted into the direction of the center of the screen, and leaves about 70 - 80 Bars of empty space, is there a way to make the chart shift option to leave only about 30 bars of empty space ?

any customizable template/ options for this?

thanks

This is from the MT4 documentation and there is no way to do it programmatically via a script. Of course you can disable the Chart Shift completely.

The "Chart Shift" option shifts the latest bar from the right screen border to the chart shift mark. The chart shift mark (a gray triangle in the upper part of the window) can be moved horizontally with the mouse within 10 to 50% of the window size.

thanks alot CodeMeister, appreciate your help : )

The chart shift marker is the same color as the Grid. If you (temporarily) change the Grid color (press F8, Colors tab) to the opposite color as your chart background (e.g. white on black background), the triangular shaped marker is a lot easier to see.

yeah, I just found out about the little button, not a very detail oriented guy, i was shocked to see it was even there. but thanks guys you just boosted my trading odds : )

learn something new everyday, thanks!!!!!!!

Is there a way to create a template with the chart shift fixed a certain amount of pixels (absolute, not relative to chart size) from the right?

Thanks... lol. this helped me in 2017..

This MT4 chart parameter likely didn't exist at the time of the original thread, however in case anyone needs it now, there is a parameter to set it:
ChartSetDouble(0, CHART_SHIFT_SIZE, cShiftPercent);

Which allows the chart's "chart shift from the right border" to be adjusted from 10 to 50%, and this shift can also be enabled/disabled using the CHART_SHIFT parameter. (ie. at the right border or cShiftPercent from the border).

To determine what percentage to use, the chart's current width can be determined using
ChartGetInteger(0, CHART_WIDTH_IN_PIXELS, 0, cWidthInPixels);

And based on how much space is needed on the right of the chart, the % can be adjusted accordingly and automatically scaled as windows sizes are changed etc...

wow thank you i have used MT4 for years and never realised there was an adjustable chart shift.....

Please forgive my ignorance but this is the closest I've come to finding the solution to the "chart shift" problem... but what do I do with this "parameter" ? Is it to be inserted in meta editor somehow? Thank you for anyone's help.

Quoting albry
"This MT4 chart parameter likely didn't exist at the time of the original thread, however in case anyone needs it now, there is a parameter to set it:
ChartSetDouble(0, CHART_SHIFT_SIZE, cShiftPercent);