How do I specify the increments on the vertical axis of charts?

Hi Jerry

I've struggle with this as well.

As far as I can tell from the help and my own playing around, the Scale fix option just means that new data doesn't cause the auto-scaling that normally occurs, e.g. when you scroll left/right. You get another vertical scroll bar in green to move the data up & down. You can still expand or contract the scale by dragging on the vertical axis, but once there it will not change as the data changes. I don't know of a way of setting the size of divisions on the scale.

Actually, I would love to see the labelling on the axis be sensible (round) numbers instead of the 5 digits we get now. Let's hope MT5 is better in this respect.

Cheers

Jellybean

Hello Jerry [and Jellybean:]

I've found that only method [for me] that worked was to make indicator which plotted whatever increment I gave it via startup input's form.

I made the chart foreground (F8) very dark and the indicator's lines were lighter etc. The Show OHLC attribute was also disabled via F8 and the indicator plotted top left [in larger font,..] the OHLC + some other data which is much more readable.

Ok, is messing about to do what a GUI should allow anyways, but good learning exercise and since one needed it - the stimulus was there to persevere until happy with results!

.

So then, why not consider coding such an item?

The stuff learned will always come in handy - even if forget much of it, will remember that once "I did it!" so can for sure do it again...

Regards