Auto Chart Scroll Stops Ocassionally

[Alfred]

Hi Again...


Sounds good.

Have you already revised the drawing objects in 6.5 ?


Thanks....

[NinjaTrader_Ray]

• Added: Email image directly from within a chart
• Added: Range bar interval type
  
• Added: Draw tool Regression Channel
  
• Added: Draw tool Arrow Line
  
• Added: Format Data Series dialog when creating a new chart allows you to select a chart template
  
• Added: User defined "Remove Draw Objects" dialog
  
• Added: Reload Historical Data menu to refresh current chart
  
• Added: Clickable arrow icon is displayed in the top right corner that resets the current bar as the last displayed bar when it is off screen
  
• Improved: Chart can be panned to the left
  
• Improved: Session begin/end time can now span across midnight
  
• Improved: Session begin/end time properties are visually suppressed in Chart Properties when a non-intraday time frame is selected
  
• Improved: Crosshair color automatically changes between color of black and white dependant on chart background color
  
• Improved: Crosshair is now active as you move your mouse over any chart window that does not have immediate focus
  
• Improved: Global crosshair automatically scrolls charts forward and backward in time ensuring that the time axis is always displayed in all charts that have global crosshair enabled
  
• Improved: Global crosshair horizontal line no longer displays if horizontal value received from the transmitting chart is not part of the receiving chart's y scale
  
• Improved: Zoom box is now white if chart background is a dark color
  
• Improved: X axis displays day labels on session break on an intraday chart
  
• Improved: X axis includes labels for day, month and year breaks
  
• Improved: X axis formatting of labels and grid lines for daily, weekly, monthly and yearly charts
  
• Improved: Draw objects have a configurable "Auto scale" property
  
• Improved: Draw objects are no longer bound by the visual boundaries of a chart and can be partially moved off the chart canvas
  
• Improved: Draw objects can extend into the chart's right side margin
  
• Improved: Fibonacci draw objects no longer have a 300% level limitation
  
• Improved: Fibonacci draw objects have a configurable "Show text" property
  
• Improved: Gann Fan draw object has a configurable "Show text" property
  
• Improved: Andrew's Pitchfork draw object has a configurable "Show text" property
  
• Improved: Minute bars are now built using tick stamps of 00:00 to 00:59 (end of bar time stamp still is maintained)
  
• Improved: Changed y-scaling logic when current bar is last bar on chart and at upper/lower chart extremes to reduce flickering caused by constant y-axis rescaling
  
• Improved: Day Break lines are now Session Break lines and display at the first bar of a new session instead midnight
  
• Improved: Pressing F5 to reload NinjaScript objects no longer remove custom draw objects from panels numbered greater than 1
  
• Improved: Chart "Last Date" is now set to the current date when connecting to a real-time provider after using the Market Replay Connection
  
• Improved: Woodies CCI indicator now supports displacement
  
• Improved: Woodies CCI now has an optional CCI Panel
  
• Improved: Woodies CCI has additional user configurable plots

Improved: Woodies CCI Chopzone and Sidewinder plot values are now exposed for automated strategy development

[Alfred]

Hi Once Again...

Is there as yet an approximate release date for the NT 6.5 revisions / enhancements shown in the 10-05 list below...??

Thanks... !

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

First beta targeting this week.

[Alfred]

New Thoughts and a Reccomendation....

I have kept a running tabulation for four days on the number of times I inadvertently triggered an auto scroll hang by attempting to left click on a graphic object or clicking on a chart itself....this has worked out to be an average of 15.25 times a day that I accidentally disabled auto scroll and had to correct it...(this was for typical market hours). And...I will swear on a stack of health food books that this 15.25 figure is accurate.

Also...now with perhaps overlapping charts in workspaces one has additional opportunities to disable auto scroll as one left clicks back and forth between overlapped charts......

Suggestions....as one option keep things exactly as they are and by clicking the arrow in the upper right corner one can get things back to normal when you may get an auto scroll hang for whatever reason. But here is a second option to consider (that also might would work concurrently in addition to the existing method).... Enable in properties the ability to disable left click to scroll of a chart. However...also add an icon in the tool bar which one could click on to enable left click scrolling of a chart....and when you wanted to return things to normal, just click on the existing arrow in the upper right corner which would also disable left click scrolling (and this would also disable the highlighted new icon) and return the chart to normal position. This makes the scrolling of a chart a definite choice and will eliminate all of the accidental left click auto scroll hangs, for users who choose this method. Also suggested...the color of the existing correction arrow be enabled to be the same as ones color choice for inactive price markers in properties.

My feeling is that this second option would be viable for some users...

Thanks....

[NinjaTrader_Chris]

Charting

Hello,

Thank you for your suggestions and comments. I will forward them to development and have them add it to our future enhancement list.

[Alfred]

Latest Thoughts !!

Hi...

Here is another video with some ideas to perhaps consider
on the auto scroll hang problem...along with possible suggestions to improve the way data is displayed in Ninja...

Link to video...

http://www.screencast.com/t/EVU54onVw

Thanks... !

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

Thanks Alfred. However, we are deep into addressing 6.5 issues these days and likely will have little chances to do implementation changes.

[Alfred]

Thanks too Dierk....

Perhaps worth a look sometime for future considerations...

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

Certainly will do...

[Alfred]

Another Possible (Better ?) Solution ??....

Here is another possibility that might more easily solve the the problem of one so often accidentally triggering an auto scroll hang when left clicking on a chart or working with Draw Tools....

Instead of being able to left click & hold down anyplace on a chart to enable scrolling to the left or right....
What about enabling left click scrolling only in the small horizontal bounded area where chart session times are shown (below the chart body itself)....this way one could easily move to that chart area for quick left click & hold down scrolling back and forth...and the body of the chart itself would now be free from triggering accidental movement to the left or right (and triggering auto scroll hangs) of the chart whenever you left clicked on the chart or when one may attempt to modify or move a draw tool etc....

Update....Just noticed for the first time (!) that left click & hold in that small margin area at the bottom can be used to expand or contract the chart 1 level...so what about right click & hold in this area to enable scrolling ?? ....or perhaps the revese of right & left click for a combo of these two functions in that area...??

Another update...looks like this may not be such a hot idea afterall...right click & hold in that margin area could bring the chart menu box....

Back to the drawing board I guess...!!....

Thanks ! ....

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

[Alfred]

Hot off the drawing board ... !!

Thanks for the reply below Dierk....

Now...here's my latest (minor) brainstorm...what about *click* & hold down the middle mouse button in the lower chart margin (where chart times are shown) to enable scrolling / panning of a chart back & forth...?? This seems like a possibility... (??)

Clicking on the middle mouse button in that chart area currently (even even when Chart Trader is enabled) does not at present bring any other functions up ...so no possible conflicts if this were enabled ? ...

Also...this way users may become naturally comfortable using that window area for horizontal chart manipulation ....for both expansion / contraction & also scrolling back & forth...

Many thanks as usual...

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

Thanks as usual. Please don't forget that we will not change NT6.5 behavior shortly before release. Thus, usability changes "only" could make it into NT7 (beta end of this year).

[Alfred]

Time for a solution on this problem now in NT 7 ??...

Thanks as usual. Please don't forget that we will not change NT6.5 behavior shortly before release. Thus, usability changes "only" could make it into NT7 (beta end of this year).

Wondering if a fix on this problem could be considered now in NT 7.

Some charting programs allow the chart to continue to update in the space set to the right area...what about something like that ??...the triangle would still show as a warning when you were in the space to right for any reason, but you would not get an inactive price marker color until the updating bar moved into the price column area.

This would solve the problem where the chart is so often slightly moved to the right (and stops updating) when one left clicks on a chart as ones pointer may be moving ever so slightly to the right upon a left click.

I believe... conservatively ...I must correct charts to get them updating again 10 to 15 times a day...at 250 trading days per year this would be around ( conservatively again probably) 2500 to 3750 corrections per year for myself currently as things are set up now....

Thanks....