Ruler Pro MT4

Professional Ruler is a simple but important trade utility tool to measure two points on chart quickly and provides important data exactly. This ruler works well with all symbols and timeframes.

Ruler Pro MT4 provides these information right on chart in no time to help you analyze market faster:

• Times and values of 2 points
• Distance of 2 points in bar number and in time (X days, Y hours, Z mins)
• Value change in absolute number, in tick count and in percent
• Total tick volume in measurement duration
• Trend angle of 2 points
• Number of bullish and bearish bars
• Estimated profit on trading
• Trend direction and measure direction by colors

Features

This smart ruler works on indicator windows* too (Not just on main window as others). It means you can measure on main window and indicator windows with these features:

• Draw single ruler on chart with auto-remove right on finish
• Draw multi-rulers on chart as your needs
• Show crosshair for better align with bars on other windows
• Magnet mode to stick with OHLC price on main window
• Do everything quickly with Hot Keys supported
• Print measurement info to Expert window for stored or copying
• Light mode, dark mode and hidden mode supported
• Able to custom most of things (colors, font size, information to show....) but still clean and easy to setup

How To Use:

There is a Controls Bar show in the left side of your chart, in the middle.

• Click on Ruler icon to start drawing
• Click on Toggle icon to toggle multi-ruler mode

After choosing ruler mode

• Click on the first point to start measure
• Move your mouse to the second point on chart
• See measurement information inside box in real time

Additional actions you can do while measuring (Keys below are default settings, you can customize all of them):

• Press P key to print current measurement info in Expert window
• Press L key to toggle crossline on chart
• Press M key to switch from single ruler mode to multi-rulers mode
• Press Arrow Up/Down key to increase/decrease lot size to estimate trade profit
• Press C key to toggle visibility of controls bar on chart

Ways to remove ruler(s):

• Auto removed with Clear On Finish on
• Click on Toggle icon on multi-rulers mode
• Double-click anywhere on chart
• Press ESC key on keyboard

Setup Guidelines

When adding Ruler Pro into your chart, you can customize these things:

Behaviors section

• Magnet Mode: Stick ruler points into OHLC values in main window or indicator values in sub-windows. Specific the magnet sensitive in Values section
• Clear On Finish: Clear ruler right on finish (click on second point) without need to click/press anything else. Just work on single ruler mode
• Clear By Double Click: Clear the ruler(s) when double click anywhere on chart
• Enable Hot Keys: Allow using hot keys or not. Config hot keys in Hot Keys section
• Hide Controls On Chart: Hide controls bar on chart and do everything with hot keys. Hot keys must be enabled
• Show Crosshair: Pick from list None/Solid/Dash/Dot to hide crosshair or show with specific style when measuring

Styling section

• Dark Controls Theme: Show controls bar in dark mode
• Font Size: Change font size of texts. Limits: 6 to 15
• Bullish Color: Color of ruler box, information box and direction arrow on bullish
• Bullish Text Color: Color of information on bullish
• Bearish Color: Color of ruler box, information box and direction arrow on bearish
• Bearish Text Color: Color of information on bearish
• Crosshair Color: Color of crosshair when showing

Information section

• Show Point Times Info: Show From time and To time or not
• Show Point Values Info: Show From value and To value or not
• Show Volume Info: Show tick volume info or not
• Show Angle Info: Show trend angle info or not
• Show Bullish/Bearish Info: Show bullish/bearish bar count or not. In indicator windows, this info won't show even you turn it on here
• Show Profit Info: Show estimate profit info or not. In indicator windows, estimated profit is calculated based on Open price of starting point and Close price of ending point

Values section

• Default Lot: Default lot to calculate profit
• Lot Step: Step change when increase/decrease lot
• Magnet Sensitive: Sensitive of magnet mode. Bigger number means more sensitive. More sensitive means easier to stick on values. Limits: 1 to 50
• Double Click Time: Double click sensitive. Bigger number mean more time between 2 clicks. Limits: 100 to 1000

Hot Keys section

• Start Ruler Key: Keyboard to start drawing a new ruler. Default is R key (R stands for Ruler)
• Start Multi-Rulers Key: Keyboard to start drawing ruler with multi-rulers mode. Default is M key (M stands for Multi)
• Clear Rulers Key: Keyboard to clear all rulers on chart. Default is ESC key (ECS is escape button on keyboard)
• Print Infos To Expert Key: Keyboard to print measurement info of current ruler and existing rulers (if existing) into the Expert window. Default is P key (P stands for Print)
• Increase Lot Key: Keyboard to increase lot size for estimated profit info. Default is arrow up key
• Decrease Lot Key: Keyboard to decrease lot size for estimated profit info. Default is arrow down key
• Toggle Crosshair Key: Keyboard to toggle invisibility of crosshair. Applied for current ruler and further. Default is C key (C stands for Crosshair)
• Toggle Controls Key: Keyboard to toggle invisibility of controls bars. Default is H key (H stands for Hide)