Problem on 1 tick charts

[gomifromparis]

1 tick charts plot OK when alone, but you get strange results if you add another dataseries.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

1 tick charts plot OK when alone, but you get strange results if you add another dataseries.

Are you referring to the blue rectangles in the top panel? If yes, can you double click on them to bring up a properties window? Are they rectangle draw objects?

[gomifromparis]

no, I drawed to rectangles to show you the problem : you can't have 2 ticks happening in the same time on a 1 tick chart !

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

I see, the rectangles are pointing out that two ticks are on the same time slot, correct?

This is possible since both of those ticks likely have the exact same time stamp. There is an option in chart properties named "Equidistant bar spacing". This is set to true as default for single series chart and is NT 6.5 behaviour. What this means is that each bar on a chart is the evenly spaced from the next bar. The time axis can have gaps if there is a bar missing. In this case, you would never have a chart with two ticks on the same x-axis slot. In contrast, this property automatically sets to false when working with multi-series charts. The reason is that you must have evenly spaced time axis in order to properly align all the series on the chart. Thus, any bars with identical time stamps will be plotted at their correct time axis location.

[gomifromparis]

I see.

So that means that anytime when you use multi charts, you show in fact a constant time chart.

And that's why a 1000V and 10000V look so much ugly . They're not volume charts, they're time charts with volume printed.

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

I see.

So that means that anytime when you use multi charts, you show in fact a constant time chart.

And that's why a 1000V and 10000V look so much ugly . They're not volume charts, they're time charts with volume printed.

Correct...Since you have to show a constant time axis so that all bars properly align in their correct location to one another. The result for non-time based intervals will be that you have unequal distance between bars since you close time of each bar is not equal.

The only thing you could do to remove contant time axis on multi-series is if the bars were multiples of each other. Meaning, plot 1000 volume with 10,000 volume. This is possible since 1000 is multiple of 10,000 thus, you could plot 10 - 1000 bars for every 1 - 10,000 bars. This of course breaks down if you try to plot 1000 and 9999 bars together thus the need for constant time.

[gomifromparis]

OK,I understand..