MT4 Shortcut Keys

Ok, here’s a quick way to draw perfectly straight horizontal lines:

[U]Step 1[/U]
Draw a vertical straight trendline first in an empty space on your chart. You will see that in MT4 that a vertical trendline when drawn tends to snap into place perfectly straight. Once drawn, open the line with left mouse click to show the 3 editing handles;
[U]Step 2[/U]
Hold down the [Shift] key, left mouse click and hold the bottom handle of the line then drag the selected handle to the right (or left) and immediately the trendline will jump to a horizontal position and perfectly straight. It can now be lengthened as required…make sure you use the [Shift] again when doing this so as to preserve line straightness;
[U]Step 3[/U]
At this point, left mouse select the line to open the editing handles, left mouse select the [U]centre[/U] handle and slide the line where you want it at desired S&R positions. Make sure when moving the line around and placing it in position that neither line end handles come into close proximity (about 10 pixels) of either a high or low point of a bar or candlestick as the end of the trendline will be attracted to that high or low point which may result in distortion of your perfectly horizontal trendline (NOTE: This “magnetic” attraction of the line end to a bar or candlestick can be modified or switched off via Tools/Options/Objects/Magnetic Sensitivity).

This description may sound slightly convoluted but practice it a few times and it will be easy.

To assist in understanding the above process I have attached a short video.

Hope this procedure helps.

[video]https://youtu.be/JP97q9Vot38[/video]

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With the trendline selected, pressed SHIFT and drag the point controler to resize the line into a point, without releasing the mouse, stretch it back to the direction it needs to be, voila!
You can confirm this works when you have it temporarily as a point, the tooltip will display “0/0”, respectively candlecount/pipcount.

Good day,
Would you mind to re-upload script you were talking about.
Much oblige for all your efforts,
Looking forward,

Thank you for the helpful post.
When scrolling left and right through charts, in what order does it go?
It seems to be jumping from one chart to another and not between the adjacent charts…

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