MetaTrader Australia

The current price shown on an MT4 chart is the bid price. When looking at a price bar or candle, you must add the spread to the high bid price to know what the high ask price would have been, or add the spread to the low bid price to know what the low ask [...]

Templates can also be created for charts opened from the Strategy Tester and for charts opened independently. To create a default template for charts opened from the Strategy Tester, you will need to save a template as “tester.tpl”. For offline charts, the default template must be “offline.tpl”. If the “offline.tpl” template is not found when [...]

Use F12 to move through a chart bar by bar. This function can be very useful when you develop and test your own trading strategies. Simply open a chart at the very beginning of the history (press Home) and move through it bar by bar. Shift+F12 will move through the chart backwards. Source: http://articles.mql4.com/189

If you accidentally close a chart it can be reopened with all its settings using “File -> Open Deleted”. Source: http://articles.mql4.com/189

You can check the price range and the number of bars between two points using the ruler. To do so, select the “Crosshair” object, click with the left mouse button on the first point in the chart and drag the cursor to the second point. The first number (23) is the count of bars, the [...]

To print a chart, Press Ctrl+P. By default the charts are printed in black and white, but they can also be printed in color. Just check the “Color print” field in the “Charts” tab of the “Tools -> Options” menu. Source: http://articles.mql4.com/189