Panning the charts - Similar to eSignal

[stevescott05]

You guys going to include this ability in any future versions? Is that on the docket? It was a pretty nice feature, keeps the price scale consistent, the auto-scale would be irrelevant, etc.

steve

[NinjaTrader_Chip]

Hello Steve

Thank you for your post.

Have you tried holding left mouse button down on the price scale & with the ‘Ctrl’ key moving the mouse up or down?

If this is not what you were referring to, please provide some further detail regarding the feature you cited.

Thank you,

[stevescott05]

Na, you would click the the button which has all your cursors (arrow, global, crosshair), but in addition to yours, has one that looks like a hand, the universal 'pan' symbol i guess. It then 'unlocks' the y-axis of price and ceases to auto scale the size of your bars according to the range within your screen. So, if you click and hold starting from the top half of your chart, then drag down, the chart will move down off your screen. Now you're free to move around the chart and see the movement of the market price without it expanding/squishing bars depending on the price range of the visible data -- it helps to see the size of market moves without the distortion from auto-scale. I always found it useful, anyhow, and have been half-expecting you guys to incorporate it. The auto-scale is kinda a pain when I'm setting up charts with Fib-extensions that extend above or below the screen, and to place my stop/target at certain %'s, I have to either collapse the y-axis by clicking and dragging it, or I have to drag in more data by clicking/dragging x-axis, and hopefully that data is spread out over a larger price range, thus bringing the upper/lower parts of my drawings into view. If I could just pan the chart, i would be free to move the chart up and down just as easily as I can currently move it side to side.

Make more sense?

I really think this would be a great option to have as it would add a little more versatility to the analyst when he/she wants to view the price action along a time frame with consistent y-axis scaling. Ex. 1inch bar is always 10pts., then you can just drag everything around. I found it exhilarating.

[NinjaTrader_ChristopherJ]

Thank you for your suggestion on how we can improve our product. It has been inserted into our tracking system and been assigned ID #102.

[kenz987]

Along this same topic - if you don't mind Steve - the old ver 6.5 VertcalScale indicator worked very nicely, altho I did not like havingto hold a keyboard key down, but the idea is the same - Is there an experienced programmer out there that can modify that indi to work on ver 7? Thanks, Ken