Price Axis and Scale and Zoom
Price Axis and Scale and Zoom
16 Jan 2019, 16:53
Just started using the platform and to be honest, its pretty good. However, the price scale and axis is probably the worst I have come across. You need to take a leaf out ProRealTime or Trading Views book and adopt the same approach. Price axis/scale is so important for perspective, and given the current completely random price lines that are recorded on there at such tiny intervals, it almost makes the chart unworkable to trade off. There is way too much noise on there. You have got right on your mobile apps, I can't understand how you have got it so backwards on the web and platform versions. These numbers mean nothing to me. Why wouldn't you adopt 5/10/50/100's etc which show more detail as zoom in and less when out. Also, please remove the bid/ask lines and just adopt a move price box on the price axis. All of the above just creates too much noise and distraction which is obviously the last thing a serious trader wants.
Also, to have 4 zoom settings is not great. Surely, just using the mouse scroll wheel to be able to get more precise zoom levels is the obvious approach - once again like TV and PRT.
If you want to move back in time (which is what the cursor wheel does) you have the scale down the bottom and can drag and pull with the mouse cursor - why then take away the ease of the cursor for zooming for something which is well catered for.