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Post From: Trade DOM “Horizontal Grid Line Increment” Settings – Instrument With Four Decimal Numbers
| [2014-09-01 12:12:00] |
| User30668 - Posts: 108 |
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SC Engineering, I apologize to take your time with this issue but I have been struggling with it for quite some time now and couldn't find any satisfactory solution to meet my needs. I wouldn't be asking if I wouldn't really need it. 1- Context: As most traders know, many trading securities / instruments have “natural” support / resistance levels on round price numbers (i.e. Euro Futures - 1.3200) and often the 1/4 (i.e. 1.3225) and 1/8 (i.e. 1.3212/13) levels in between those round price numbers. These precise levels and their immediate perception upon fast price movements are very important for Scalpers. The instruments I usually trade are as described. Thus, I need to have the Horizontal Grid Lines set for these intermediate levels on my Trade DOMs and some of my Charts (0.00125 / 12.5 ticks distance apart in the case of Euro Futures). 2- Description of the problem: I mostly trade two instruments: Euro Futures (E6) and Crude Oil Futures (CL). With Crude Oil, I set the Horizontal Grid Line Increment value for “0.125” on the Trade Dom and it works just fine. Because this instrument's price has only two decimal numbers I have to insert the value "0.125" in the “Horizontal Grid Line Increment” field in order to get my Horizontal Grid Lines on the desired levels (every 12.5 ticks). Unfortunately, with Euro Futures it does not work so well. As this instrument price has four decimal numbers I have to insert a value of “0.00125” in the “Horizontal Grid Line Increment” field in order to get the Horizontal Grid on the desired levels (every 12.5 ticks). After inserting that value and clicking “OK”, at first the Grid Lines show at the correct levels. But when I move the DOM up and down the Grid lines change their position. (Please see the short video attached) This problem just happens when I insert the value “0.00125”; if I insert “0.0025” instead, it works just fine. My problem is I really need to have those “in-between” levels in my Trade DOM. I have already tried several other ways to get a Horizontal Grid on those levels – in my charts I am using the “Horizontal Grid” user contributed study and it accepts the “0.00125” spacing value, serving the purpose just fine. However, this is not a good solution for the Trade Dom. With the Trade DOM, “alien” studies overlap / interfere with the DOM Graph and, more important, don't show the levels across the Price, Bid and Ask Columns like SC Horizontal Grid does. Also, SC Horizontal Grid cleverly plots its lines in-between the prices so never overlapping the DOM Graph nor other studies. 3- My request: As I mentioned before, I have the Horizontal Grid working as needed with Crude Oil Futures, when it is set to “0.125” Grid Increment. It would be very, very helpful if I could have it working the same way with E6 - Euro Futures too. I would much appreciate if you could take a look at this issue and see if you can find a way to “tweak” it in order to make it possible the Grid Lines don’t move away from their levels after being set to “0.00125” Grid Increment. I hope that this is not a very difficult or complicated issue to resolve. Thank you. Date Time Of Last Edit: 2014-09-01 17:05:20
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