MT4 - Alternative price scale (does it exist?)
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    Hey guys (and women ),

    I, like many others, have quiet poor eyes and are afflicted by Metaquotes choice to not provide a sh... about font scaling. This problem gets particularly worse now with the coming of UHD monitors and notebooks. Yeah, I know about the manifest hack, however I have problems on an ordinary monitor.

    I have an idea how to fix this problem. I have a lot of experience in software development but I'm still missing any experience with all the metatrader language, so that I can't do it myself.
    Well, to come to the point: Is it feasible to write an extension for Metatrader that paints a new price scale near the present one (if you alter the chart there's loads of space) using a user defined font-size?
    Does something like this exist or would someone be interested in writing it?

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    Okay here we go. I made the decision to make an indior for this particular task so please place the document in the indior folder.

    The alterations are really smooth and I am happy about how it worked out. To make this look smooth you need to disable the default option on your chart. Labels and lines are printed the way which they'll only appear at x0 or x5 levels.

    Settings:

    Tag Color: Shade of the price tag
    Font Size: Size of the price tag
    X Tag Offset: Adjust the price labels place. The higher the value the more left it will be exhibited. Values that were negative can be enter by you.
    Y Tag Offset: Adjust the price labels place. The higher the value the more closer to the base. Values that were negative can be enter by you.

    Grid Color: Color of the Grid
    Number Grid Lines: The indior will try to fit in # of lines in the price grid on the chart. The higher the number the more narrow the grid will be. This value is based on a best effort basis as a result of lines just be attracted on x0 and x5 basis.


    Please be aware that I didn't optimize the code to get performance(not that it actually matters but you may not want to take it as a reference if you want to learn coding).

    I just eyeballed the consequent indior if any adjustments need to be made feel free to quote my own post or write me a pm.

    https://forexintuitive.com/attachmen...8955047278.mq4

  3. #3
    Great!

    I thank you both very much. You did a fantastic job Killian. I have just one last question: Could be possible/much function to make the grid line style configurable? I really liked the dotted line, it was so discreet. Standard lines may be rivaling with traces I draw on the chart.

    Dank dir!

  4. #4
    Quote Originally Posted by ;
    Wonderful! I thank you very much. You did a fantastic job Killian. I have just one final question: Would be possible/much work to make the grid line style configurable? I truly liked the dotted line, it was so unobtrusive. Regular lines might be concurring with lines I draw the chart. Dank dir!
    Sure no problem. You are also able to change the width of these lines. Due to limitations of mt4 line styles other than the normal line do not operate if the width is gt; 1.

    Gerne. Das ist ja mal etwas anderes als dauernd diese EA's die von Leuten ohne großen Hintergedanken bestellt werden.
    https://forexintuitive.com/attachmen...1822796061.mq4

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    Brilliant!
    I will yet have to try it out through real price movement but it looks very close to what I had in my mind.

    Thank you!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ;
    Wonderful! I'll yet have to give it a try during actual price movement but it appears very close to what I had in my mind. Thank you!
    No difficulty

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    I am testing it on a demo at this time. I just started that sadly and MT4 instance the pricing was not accurate. It updates if I change/re-save the indior configurations.
    Beside that issue (that I guess/hope its simple to fix), would it be possible to bring some line or arrow or anything like that to the amounts so I know precisely where that price would be? Its a bit unclear to me whether the price is under, above or in the middle of the amounts.



    Again, thank you very much for the effort!

  9. #9
    Can't start the EX4 document
    How is it achieved
    Thnks

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    As this might be a handy tool I will take a look into it and post a version later today.

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