hi …
is it possible to lock in to candle in MT4 during Time frame changes …
like … when i backtest old data and shift between 1 hour to 15 minutes to 5 minutes . its pretty hard to find the day and time i was looking at the hourly chart … when i change over to the small time frames…
what i am looking for is a sort of like a zoom function so that the hourly candle that i am looking at breaks into 30 mins … 15 mins … 10 mins etc … sort of like anchoring to a specific time …
and BTW … whats the keyboard shortcut to add vertical/horizontal lines ???
dint u guys understand my problem ??? or is there no solution ??
I’d also like to know the answer to this problem
Best Regards,
Matt Jones 
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If I’m using MT4, then its a case of drawing vertical lines to help assist location of the trade, it is a pain, and I do a lot of strategy development work so I ended up writing an application that would allow me to display and simultaneously scroll though multiple charts.
When I first started to get serious abut backtesing I used to store details of trades (both live and backtest) in an external database. I allocated each trade a unique ID, way back when I was using MT3 for back testing and I developed a custom indicator that can read trades from the database, and then mark them on the charts, applying appropriate color codes etc. It saves a lot of time, particularly if your undertaking analysis across multiple timeframes.
I’ve seen similar indicators on a few forums that can do the same thing taking the trade history directly from MT4, it only takes a few lines of code, so its probably easier to write someting from scratch rather than modifying somone elses code.
I don’t think there is a keyboard shortcut to draw a line. How would MT4 know where you wanted the line placed.
Any reason you can’t just use the button on the toolbar?
Also, if you want to see your trade on a chart, just drag it from the history tab onto any chart and it will show you the trade arrows. Don’t need an indicator for it.