MT4 Shortcut Keys

[bts4ex]

Really useful info. Thanks.

A couple of things I have found useful are:

If you are using a scroll mouse, click on the scroll button to get the cross hair tool. Left click to cancel it.

If you want to extend a trend line in exactly the same direction hold the shift key down as you drag. It’s similar to using the ‘ray’ tick box, but its quicker, easier and the line doesn’t go on forever.

I still haven’t found any way to force a trend line to draw perfectly horizontally for drawing short term support and resistance levels. If anyone knows a way I’d be interested to hear.

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]

[Magneet]

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.

[Tiap]

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

I’ll reply over here.
Here is my script. To run its super simple…Make sure AHK has been installed…double click on scrpt…open mt4 platform and start using the shortcuts.

Here is the link to the script as BP doesn’t allow the AHK extension.

w.keepandshare.com/doc/view.php?id=1375517&da=y

Shortcuts: Everything is initiated for me with the Caps Lock Key referred from here as the CLK

Timeframes:
CLK 1-9

Templates:
CLK qwerty (First seven templates in your tpl folder based on name…I start mine with #'s i.e. 01 Overview 02 Indicator etc)(One of the beauties of using ahk for templates is of course speed, but it also allows you to fill a template with fibs and lines and indicators you are trying and then a simple clk 3 or whatever erases it back to normal assuming you haven’t saved the tpl)

Currencies:
CLK asdfghjklmnb (my most common ones set to asd, this is easy to configure in the script if you want.)

Misc:
CLK Z Candles to the front and Back
CLK X Chart AutoScroll On and off

I zoom in and out using the + and - keys on the number keypad. Also note i only use MT4 for charting.

[redaresg]

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…

[A.JFX]

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