how to freeze the vertical scale? (manually adjust the scale?)

[leontancfa]

how to freeze the vertical scale? or in other words, how to manually adjust the scale? Even some candles are outside of upper or lower bound, I would still like to be able to manually adjust the vertical scale.

Thanks.

[roonius]

how to freeze the vertical scale? or in other words, how to manually adjust the scale? Even some candles are outside of upper or lower bound, I would still like to be able to manually adjust the vertical scale.

Thanks.

You can't. Hopefuly in NT7

[leontancfa]

You can't. Hopefuly in NT7

is there a way to work around it before NT7? ascript, a template, or a patch?

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Unfortunately this is not supported.

I will forward your suggestion to our development team and ask them if they can add this to the list of future considerations for the software.

[pumin]

bump.. +1 on this. With auto scale, I lost my sense of high/low when moving around.

[winston99]

Dittoes

bump.. +1 on this. With auto scale, I lost my sense of high/low when moving around.

Dittoes...

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Hello winston99,

This will be supported in the NinjaTrader 7.

http://www.ninjatrader.com/webnew/NT7/NinjaTrader7.html

New Fixed or Automatic Scale Range
Each panel in a chart contains three scales, right, left and overlay. Each scale's range can be automatically calculated based on the highest high and lowest low of all plotted objects or the scale can be manually set by defining the value as per the image below. You can also set the scale range via mouse dragging in the y axis. If the range is manually set (Fixed) an "F" in the upper right portion of the panel will be displayed. You can also set the scale to be linear or logarithmic.

[Ac1d27]

I completely agree, trading off smaller time frames, 10sec, 5tick...etc, scaling becomes very important. I personally want to be able to set my charts at lets say 70ticks and if price happens to shoot up 100ticks it will just center on price leaving past data off the chart. More times than not 100tick moves just don't happen on smaller timeframes, maybe 1-3 times a week. So for the other 99% of the time when those moves don't happen I'd like to be able to set my chart to a specific number of ticks and leave it.

[terryt]

jason:

wrt NT7 fixed scaling

It is good to read that NT will have fixed scaling.

Will each instrument have its own fixed scaling value per chart?
Or will each chart only have a single fixed scaling value?

I link market analyzer to a group of charts.
It would be important to me to be able to set a different fixed scale for each instrument.

Thanks,
-Terry Thrift-

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Hello Terry,

Yes, each chart can set to its own fixed Y-axis scale.

[terryt]

Hello Terry,

Yes, each chart can set to its own fixed Y-axis scale.

Thanks for the response.
I am confused by your answer, though.

Within each chart window instance that has fixed scaling enabled, when I change the instrument to be displayed, what determines the fixed scale applied to the data of the newly chosen instrument?

Example:
Say I have ^COMP and AAPL in market analyzer and market analyzer is linked to a 15 minute chart. I select ^COMP in market analyzer and set the fixed scale on the 15 minute chart for ^COMP. I select AAPL in market analyzer and set the fixed scale for AAPL.

Now if I reselect ^COMP in market analyzer what fixed scale is applied to the 15 minute chart? The last scale that was set in the chart window or the last scale that was set in the chart window for AAPL?

The window would need to use a different fixed scale for each instrument or the linking from Market Analyzer would be a pretty useless way to browse the status of instruments.

yes?

Thanks,
-Terry-

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Hello Terry,

I see what you mean now. Unfortunately after you switch instruments, it will revert back to the default settings (scale range is determined by the highest high and lowest low, as in NT 6.5), which is not the fixed scale you setup before switching instruments. Fixed scaling is absolute and not relative.

You could create charts with a fixed scale in separate workspaces and save the workspace in order to save the fixed scaling.

[terryt]

Ouch!

Then NT7 would render useless the viewing fixed scale charts linked from Market Analyzer.

I need to review/monitor 20 to 40 instruments that vary a bit from day to day.
Only 10 at the most need their own workspace and live signals.

-Terry-

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Hello Terry,

I will forward your suggestion to save fixed scaling per instrument when switching instruments in the Market Analyzer to our development team and ask them if they can add this to the list of future considerations for the software.

[terryt]

thanks for forwarding my request.

-Terry-