one of my own charts, vertically, one above the other; and I'd like the
timescales to maintain themselves so that Minute 1 on my chart,
aligns with Minute 1 on the Ninja Chart.
My charting package always maintains the horizontal axis so that
there is never any "missing time" where there may be no data.
If there is no data; the timescale is always advanced.
I am probably not explaining this well...
But what happens is that, while each candle on the Ninja chart is
shown against the timescale; it is not the case, apparently, that if
there is no data in a particular 1 second interval, that the horizontal
timescale basically does not "advance"; and the result is that the
time represented on the left side of the chart keeps changing, and
does not maintain a constant time value.
So Ninja does appear to "timestamp" each Bar in which there is
actual data; but it does not plot that data against a strictly linear
horizontal axis. That axis has "missing time" and so it is not possible
to maintain, say, 5 minutes from the right side, to the left side of
a chart. That 5 minute period shrinks and expands, whenever
there is an interval which has missing data.
[edit] so I am really asking that an interval which has "no data"
be nevertheless represented on the chart as "blank" and that
the timescale be advanced, so that it is strictly a linear displayed
horizontal axis timescale, with no missing times. So there would
exist "null" candles, basically if no data appeared in that interval.
That was a terrible way of explaining things; but this can easily
be seen in, say, an overnight sparse market; using time based
candles, and trying to maintain the left of the timescale precisely
a fixed time delta from the right side of the timescale.
When there is missing data; the timescale "shrinks". That means
I can't align my own fixed timescale (which never shrinks) with
Ninja Trader's chart, if it happens that there are intervals when
there is no data.
A terrible explanation; but I'd like to see the horizontal timescale
be "linearly mapped" to the passage of time; and not have what
is a "variable" horizontal timescale, when there is missing data.
I wish I were more eloquent
Maybe I can post a picture.
hyperscalper
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