Customizing MetaTrader 4 Colors, Saving & Loading Template

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Jun 12th 2007

Jude tips, forex 2 years, 9 months ago
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This is a real short and simple tutorial on customizing your colors. (Let’s face it, black, green and white is really boring and hard on my eyes)

This is how my trading platform on North Finance Meta Trader 4 looks like:

I’m guiding you on the steps to change your charts exactly to match how mine looks like *without the indicators from the previous Meta Trader Demos. Note that you can change to whatever colors you really want.

The Settings..

Click on Charts, select Properties (Or just use your F8 Key on your keyboard)

Changing Colors on MetaTrader 4 - Here you go!

Customizing your Colors

Customize the colors that you want here. You can use the exact settings from me if you like mine. I’ll share my settings here.

Background: White
Foreground: Black
Grid: Silver
Bar Up: Black
Bar Down: Red
Bull Candle: Lime Green
Bear Candle: Red
Line Graph: Black
Volumes: Green
Ask Line: Orange Red
Stop Line: Orange Red

Click on ‘Ok‘

Here you go! A brand new look on your MT4!

Now wait, click on the other charts and you realise everyone else still looks like the default chart. Isn’t it cumbersome to just change a chart’s colors every time you open a new one? (Yea there’s no default ways of setting a template as default that I know of).

Saving the new look as a Template

On the top right corner of your MT4, next to the Periods and Indicators button, there’s a Templates button. I have circled it in the screenshot for you.

Select ‘Save Template‘ and give it any names you like. I’ll name it ‘White&Neat’ for this case.

Loading the Template (Anywhere)!

Open another chart below with the default template. Click on the same Template icon that you saved earlier, and click ‘Load Template‘, choose ‘White&Neat‘, or the previous template name that you have saved.

Tadaa! We’re done! Take note whatever indicators that you save on the template will be loaded onto your new chart as well if you have it saved. We’ll touch on adding indicators on your platform as well as cover some of the basic ones that you can use.

Stay with us!

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9 Responses to “Customizing MetaTrader 4 Colors, Saving & Loading Template”

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1 jbone Jun 16th, 2007 at 10:31 am

Hi Jude,
Nice tutorial. I especially enjoyed the part about saving the template.
Thanks
jbone
2 nobsforex Jun 18th, 2007 at 5:41 am

Not a problem. Thanks for your suggestions through PM on NN for me as well. I’ll try to work those out
3 angelm33 Jan 17th, 2009 at 5:37 pm

you can rename your created template(in this case “White&Neat”) to “Default.tpl” in the templates directory. Now everytime you open a new chart, it will open it automatically with the “White&Neat” template.
4 Alexandre Cayer Nov 19th, 2009 at 9:04 pm

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