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exito100  
#1 Posted : Wednesday, May 26, 2010 7:57:40 AM(UTC)
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Quite often I find that candles are not drawn very precislely on charts while moving averages etc seem fine in MS10.1 EOD This leads to incorrect crossovers when one just looks at the charts. Calculations involving crossovers with candles appear correct. Maybe this "bug" is related to screen resolution and rounding errors of the candle coordinates?
mstt  
#2 Posted : Wednesday, May 26, 2010 2:13:04 PM(UTC)
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Hi Exito

Incorrect crossovers are most likely caused by failure to scale plots appropriately. I've never come across a situation where candles are noticably drawn incorrectly. I'm not saying that it doesn't happen but what I've noticed over the years is that MetaStock gets blamed for a lot of things that turn out to user-related problems and false asumptions.

Roy

exito100  
#3 Posted : Thursday, May 27, 2010 7:40:26 AM(UTC)
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Roy, I think you are also right this time. In the past I had two y scales (left and right) as default. This was probably the reason for the offsets I noticed many times - not just on one day when i was tired :) I cannot reproduce this problem with one y-axis which is my current default... Strange though that the difference between the two y-scales was so small (by coincidence) that the candlestick error was typically less than a few percent. I usually did (a quick) check with a horizontal line if both scales are the same as I was not always sure if all indicators are plotted on the same scale or not. After dragging an indicator into the chart window it usually asked if it should merge with the left or the right scale (or neither..). Sometimes when I clicked right scale it actually scaled with the left and caused an unwanted offset between the two y scales. Then I had to delete the indicator and remember to click the other scale in another attempt - then it worked. I may not be the only MS user in this world playing this "game" regularly.. I never found it annoying enough to figure out why this is happening. So I clearly was not fully in control of the scaling - as Roy politely suggested. Today I set one y axis as default and only use two of them in "emergencies"- this may also fix my personal candlestick "bug" - Sorry for blaming metastock here! :) klaus
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