Crosshair Utility A crosshair that shows price, time and distance.
Crosshair replaces MetaTrader's bare crosshair with one that shows live price and time at the cursor and a ruler mode for measuring distances in bars, points or percentage. Free, MT5.
Where it came from
Three answers from Daniel.
The gap
I saw a candle and never knew which reading below belonged to it. The built-in crosshair vanished after the first click.
The idea
A crosshair that runs down through the sub-window, so candle and line meet at one point. And it stays until I say so.
What makes it special
The ruler came later. Free, and it steps aside while my trade manager places an order.
Watch the tutorial
About Crosshair
MetaTrader's crosshair gives you two lines and nothing else. Crosshair gives you the information you actually reach for: live price and time at the cursor, a ruler mode that measures bar count, point distance and percentage move as you drag, and a state that holds when you switch timeframes. It is free.
Key Features
- Custom crosshair lines, dotted or solid
- Live price and time label that follows the cursor
- Ruler mode: measure bar count, point distance and percentage move between two points
- Labels auto-switch side at the chart edge so they stay readable
- State persists across timeframe changes
- Auto-hides while a Stein trade manager places or manages an order, so a stray click cannot disturb the operation
- Three start modes to choose from
- Free, MT5
How traders use it
The day-to-day gain is measurement speed. When you want the distance from current price to a key level (in pips, points or percentage), you switch to ruler mode and drag, and the figure is there immediately, no properties dialog and no mental arithmetic. For traders who size positions off the distance to stop or target, that is real time saved on every setup.
The live time label tells you when a candle opened or closed without a trip to the Object Properties dialog. Auto side-switching keeps the labels readable when the cursor sits near the right edge, where you spend most of an active session. And because the crosshair holds its mode and context across a timeframe switch, you can flip between M15 and H1 to check context and pick the measurement back up exactly where you left it.
Supported markets
Every instrument in your MT5 terminal.
Getting started
Crosshair is free on the MQL5 Market. Attach it to any MT5 chart and it takes over from the native crosshair right away. Pick your line style and start mode in the settings. The full feature overview, ruler mode included, is in the walkthrough at https://youtu.be/r8Cn5Y00NbI.
What traders say
Real reviews, public on MQL5 and quoted word for word. Each tile links to its source.