Y-axis properties suggestion

[jamesaq]

In the y-axis properties where you can set an upper and lower margin in terms of percent or price I'd like to suggest adding an option for a price margin in ticks.

Currently the price margin in points works very well on ES and TF contracts, but it does not work well when switching the charts to 6E or 6J currency contracts. If the y axis margin were in ticks I could set 10 or 20 tick margins and they would work as well for currencies where ticks are pips as for the ticks on other instruments.

The idea I'm shooting for is to have a minimum tick range on the plots. Tick margins would come close to doing that. The goal is to keep small bars looking small during times when the market is flat and going sideways compared to the size of the bars during times when there is a larger dollar range to the moves.

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

Hello jamesaq,

I will forward your suggestion to include a 'Tick' option in the Y-axis Properties menu for 'Margin type' to our Development team and ask them if they can add this to the list of future considerations of the software.

Thank you for your feedback.

[NinjaTrader_Jason]

In addition, you can setup a margin of 10 ticks when plotting the 6E by entering a value of 0.0010 when mode is set to Price.

[jamesaq]

The purpose of the tick suggestion is to be able to have a setting that you don't need to change between instruments and to keep the scale from zooming in too much on flat sideways regions.

Most futures contracts have very similar $'s per tick within $5 to $20, but as in the case with the currencies very dissimilar $'s per point. A price margin in ticks would be better proportioned to the moves.

[NinjaTrader_Austin]

jamesaq, thank you for the suggestion.