Edit Pirce Scale in Advanced Charts

[Bob A.]

Is there a way to edit the price scale on an advanced chart to truncate low digit(s). For example, on ER2 the price scale on the right will display an actual price of $567.50 as 56750. It's much easier to use if it's displayed as 5675. If that's not possible in 7.6 , would you please add this request to the 7.7 list.

Many thanks,
Bob A.

[eSignal_JasonK]

Hello Bob,

You could enter a spread symbol to move the decimal over one place to the right. Enter the symbol as "0.1ER2" and you should get the result your looking for.

[Bob A.]

Now why didn't I think of that!? Thanks, Jason.

Regards,
Bob

[Bob A.]

Hi Jason,

As per your suggestion, I used 0.1AB #F on all my charts and it made the price scale truncate exactly as I wanted. However, after a while the moving averages/ bollinger bands on each chart detatched themselves from price and headed off in their own direction! I set everything back to AB #F and all's well again but I'd still like the capability to truncate the price scale. You may want to pass this on as a bug re spreads and/or add a request for a different solution to address this in 7.7..

Regards, Bob

[efremiv]

I may be experiencing a related problem. I'm trying to set some alerts on spreads, like AB #F - $RUT. I'm trying to set 2 alerts. One for Last is higher than -20 and the other for Last is lower than -200. I've tried moving the decimal, but still can't get the alert to work. Any suggestions?

[Gavishti]

Jason,

Sort of along the same lines. It would be handy to have an option to set the scale on the Y-axis so that it would remain constant without giving up the automatic tracking. For example, set the scale to a 5 tic grid and keep the last bar centered on the scale. Of course would need a smoothing algorithm to keep it from being jumpy.

[ACM]

efremiv
Try the enclosed efs on the AB #F -$RUT spread
It will sound one ding when the spread goes below -2.0 or above -0.20
Alex

var nLastRawTime; 
function preMain() {
    setPriceStudy(true);
    setStudyTitle("Alert");
    setShowCursorLabel(false);
}
function main() {
if (getValue("rawtime",0) != nLastRawTime) { 
    if(close(-1)<-0.20&&close()>-0.20){
        Alert.playSound("ding.wav");
        nLastRawTime=getValue("rawtime",0);
    }
    if(close(-1)>-2.00&&close()<-2.00){
        Alert.playSound("ding.wav");
        nLastRawTime=getValue("rawtime",0);
    }
}
return ;
} 

[efremiv]

That's great. Thanks, Alex!