MT4 Bar Cryptocurrency Charts
A Bitcoin chart is a graphical representation of bitcoin price movement of a bitcoin instrument over a given period of time.
Drawn on a grid & user is at liberty to choose which crypto chart time frame they want to trade with. The trader may choose to use hourly cryptocurrency charts, daily crypto charts or even 1 minute crypto chart time frames.
To draw cryptocurrency charts, 3 methods are used. Methods used to draw the crypto charts defines the type of bitcoin chart.
The three types of crypto charts are: - Candlesticks Cryptocurrency Charts - Bar Cryptocurrency Charts - Line Bitcoin Charts
- Line charts
- Bar charts
- Candles crypto charts - Most popular
Line Bitcoin Chart
A single line is drawn from one closing bitcoin price to the next, forming a continuous line.
This type of cryptocurrency chart provides very little information on the chart and is therefore not very popular among cryptocurrency traders. In fact this type of bitcoin chart is rarely ever used.
Line Bitcoin Chart in Bitcoin Trading - This type of cryptocurrency chart leaves out important data about bitcoin price movement. Information such as opening, high & low point of the bitcoin price which are not represented on the trade graph.
This makes this type of crypto line cryptocurrency chart to be considered sketchy by cryptocurrency trading technical analysts.
The cryptocurrency chart below shows example of a crypto line bitcoin chart.
Bar BTCUSD Chart
Bar Cryptocurrency Charts - This type of cryptocurrency chart shows the opening, closing, the high and the low, for a particular bitcoin price interval and is represented by bars that look like the ones drawn below - hence its name bar bitcoin charts
- Bar Cryptocurrency Charts - bar cryptocurrency chart has a vertical bar showing the total bitcoin price movement.
- Left horizontal bar the opening
- Right horizontal bar the closing
- High & low denoted by the highest and lowest point
However, these bitcoin trading bar crypto charts aren't very easy to work with, especially when they are not magnified. It becomes very hard to interpret the bar crypto charts with ease when trading the btcusd market thus making them not very popular among cryptocurrency traders.
A Bar chart that isn't magnified makes it hard to view the opening & closing bitcoin price as illustrated by this example:
Candle BTCUSD Chart
Candlesticks Cryptocurrency Charts - This is the most widely used type of cryptocurrency charts, they resemble candles, thus their name - candlesticks bitcoin charts.
Candlesticks charts shows opening, closing, the high & the low of a particular bitcoin price interval.
The range between the open bitcoin price and the close bitcoin price is called the body of the candlestick.
Bitcoin candlesticks crypto charts is the most popular type of crypto charts among online bitcoin traders because it's the easiest to interpret when trading the btcusd trading market. Bitcoin candlestick crypto charts also gives a lot of data about the bitcoin price movement. This makes crypto candles charts the most widely used type of charting in Bitcoin.
Candles Bitcoin Charts
Shown Below is an example of candlesticks cryptocurrency charts. To learn and know more about crypto candlesticks charts, read this topic: Technical Analysis of Japanese Bitcoin Candlesticks Patterns in Bitcoin Trading.
How to Select These Bitcoin Chart Types on MT4 Platform
To draw any of these types of crypto charts on the MT4 Platform a trader can use the buttons below found on this MetaTrader 4 software.
Drawing Bitcoin Charts on MetaTrader 4
- To Select a Bar Bitcoin Chart Click the Bar Button Key
- To Choose a Candlesticks Bitcoin Chart Click the Candlestick Button
- To Select a Line Cryptocurrency Charts - Click the Line Button