Charts look terrible when zoomed out
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There comes a point when zooming out where my chart goes from looking like a chart that’s easy to read and understand to looking like crap. When you reach this point it’s a huge jump and it’s probably the thing I dislike most about this software. See screenshot, this is the same chart simply zoomed out 0.01% more on the bottom one.
Other apps manage to handle zooming out much much better(ie trading view, ninjatrader), I wonder why PRT cannot figure it out.
At this moment I see no difference any more between V12 and V11, so no (extra) issue there.
Hi several, what you see happening is the necessity to make the candles smaller because else they would run into each other. And Yes, this happens from the one scroll position to the next (one scroll tick difference). This just can’t be avoided. Btw, I forgot whether the bar distance can be set; that would help.
But what I also see is that your background color does not like the color of the wicks. See below 1st pic for an example where it does work (that too was scrolled one tick too far, like in your case). This can be solved by (obviously) changing the background color, or else by changing the candle color.
However …
Also see the 2nd pic. There my wicks have disappeared too. But hey, there the candles are 1 pixel wide now, so what to do eh ?
Resolution of that monitor is 3440×1440 at 92cm wide (this is more rare). The forms you see in the pics are 9,5cm wide.Personally I think PRT has the best zoom facilities out there. Of course I don’t know all of the platforms, but NT really bears the worst (possibly because of the lack on that course 😉 ). And just saying : without a “best” zoom facility it would be impossible to build decent AutoTrading systems. This also requires to be faaaast with it.
I’m still using tradingView for general charting. I use PRT for trading and scalping. PRT is far superior in that regard but for quickly moving around charts TradingView is much better IMO. I love being able to lock a chart to a specific ratio and use the zoom wheel to zoom in and out accurately to any point and retain the same ratio. I cannot get past these ugly zoomed out charts with PRT. With ES Futures it only takes a day’s worth of candles or so before the chart with 2000 ticks turns into this ugly version of the candlesticks that completely renders the candlesticks useless as they were intended. See screenshot, TradingView vs PRT. Same 2 minute chart with same zoom level. It’s not even close in terms of quality. The PRT chart looks like some inferior mobile phone version on a smaller screen. At this level Trading View has a 6px wide candle body and 2px wide wicks. In comparison PRT simply shows a 2px line with 4px empty space in between each candle. On the tradvingView chart you can clearly see the large wick on the low, not possible with the PRT implementation. This is not a technical limitation they are bound to. I think the fact they leave some much white space between the candles is the reason why they becomes so hard to see and they have no room to differentiate the wick from the body. Also, once you get to this style of chart in PRT the ‘width’ setting of the candle stick does absolutely nothing.When I zoom out, I am looking at the overall view of ups and downs, not where wicks and bodies start and end on a candle which formed 100k bars ago. If / when I do want to focus on several historical bars I use the ‘Zoon Zone Mode’ (takes 2 seconds) which makes it very easy to see wicks and bodies 100k or 500K bars ago. See attached for the Zoom Zone Mode button looking at wicks and bodies and trade exits in Jul 2023 on 100k bars on 5 min TF.
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| Forum: | Platform Support: Charts, Data & Broker Setup |
| Language: | English |
| Started: | 06/12/2024 |
| Status: | Active |
| Attachments: | 7 files |
