There's NO dependency on barcount & datetime axis (x-axis)!

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It's really astonishing but some people such as this guy No1lives4ever (again) www.inditraders.com/amibroker/11095-why-point-figure-charting-not-famous.html#post228940 (who is very well-known for his ignorance, BTW) still don't seem to get it that there is no dependency on x-axis when plotting data.

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Problem with point and figure is that it is not easy to code in platforms like Amibroker which depend on x axis incrementing per bar.

Bullshit!

ONCE AGAIN:

User has full control over every pixel on every chart sheet/pane which allows to plot anything your imagination is being capable to come up with in any way you want to draw it. Also there is absolutely no bound to symbol's Barcount and no bound to inbuilt x-axis. Anyone claiming that is telling amateurish nonsense. You can exceed barcount easily as proven here in the 2nd post amibrokerforum.proboards.com/thread/150/terminating-false-myths

Also inbuilt x-axis is just a drawing itself! Since you can draw anything yourself (because AB is a professional programming software) you can also draw any self-adjusting x, y, z, ... axes yourself! How many times is this supposed to be explained again and to be proven (i.e. speaking to everlasting ignoramus Mr. No1lives4ever)?

Also if you like you can make your own independent zoom and scroll features (of course custom drawings can be attached to inbuilt zoom/scroll too). Etc.

So here we go again with just another examples below:

First pane uses inbuilt DRAWN axes.
Second pane is showing custom DRAWN axes.

Also those three examples prove again that there are no dependencies. You can either plot the same results or you can plot completely different (which includes the axes), you can either exceed barcount or not.

Is it finally accepted once and for all that each and every sheet/pane is fully controllable from user side?
Yes? Fine!
No? So is there still some more troll-like ignorance available?



1. Both panes draw same result with same number of bars.


2. Lower pane now is drawing more bars than upper pane because of custom zoom feature (BTW, do you see any dependency on upper pane's x-axis there?)


3. Next expertise level is showing that lower pane now draws only custom bars and quelle surprise... custom x-axis is still working (independently).



4. Your expertise level...
Still empty picture but being in development

[fxshrat]

Here below there is a quick&dirty basic custom P&F example which guys like No1lives4ever have claimed would not be possible to be done in AmiBroker easily.
Now how long has this quick & dirty basic P&F drawing taken me to complete. I tell you... +/- ONE hour. Oops.

As you can see also here you have a completely independent P&F date/time axis (which Mr. "Mayor of Incompetence" No1lives4ever claimed could not be done at all "in softwares like AmiBroker" ), auto-adjusting to zoom and scroll. Ouch!

Now since this is a quick&dirty example (meaning... not much time has been spent on it) of course you also can make a fully fledged one which would draw the chart with dots and crosses, and with grid sequences having the width of box size, little UFOs and airplanes and what not... you name it...etc. etc. But that's just tweaking, nothing more nothing less. Important thing here is that such guys as Mr. No1lives4ever have got proven wrong once again (I haven't counted how many times but if my memory serves me right it has been something like zillion times...).

(BTW, I am not using P&F at all but it has been a very amusing pleasure to me once again to silence one specific guy once again EASILY!)





EDIT:

Here you have one with an adjusted grid

[fxshrat]

So here I have added three additional features: custom manual trendlines, selector line and tooltip.
All together around 80 lines of code. So such additional tools can be achieved quickly and easily.

Trend lines automatically snap to P&F bars and keep staying at exact bar position if scrolling or zooming in/out.

Selector line snaps to P&F column too if clicking with mouse. It keeps position if scrolling and disappears if not being within visible area (then reappears if coordinate is back within visible area).
Also selector line reacts to left/right keyboard keys (-> moves) and it can be attached to built-in selector (so it would stand still until new datetimes are in line between normal price bars and P&F bars) or selector line can move independently from that.

Toolbar snaps to price too and shows up together with selector line on left mouse button click (of course you could make it reacting on hovering mouse over price but I rather find that option annoying). Tooltip shows P&F datetime, normal price bar's datetime and P&F H/L as well as currently selected P&F column, ..., ...

In addition Chart title reacts to P&F selection also and shows dates/values of currently selected P&F bar.

As I said 80 lines. I'm rather calling that one the opposite of not easy.

[fxshrat]

BTW in order to turn off inbuilt chart functionality such as tool tip, quote selector etc. not being required for custom drawn independent plot you may use following line posted here amibrokerforum.proboards.com/thread/107/afl?page=2&scrollTo=841

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Mr. No1lives4ever claimed Ninjatrader being "superior" (what does it mean, I still don't know) in regards to plotting point & figure.

Now out of fun I tried to plot P&F with same data.
But apparently NT 7 does not understand how to plot it properly.

Take a look at following example. It uses 1-minute data setting and 50 ticks box size, 3 bar reversal. And what is NT 7 doing? It plots wrong output.

What is wrong? Anyone using NT7? If you need the data then let me know.

[fxshrat]

Also if setting to daily base time then NT7 plots differently than AmiBroker and Metastock (which do draw the same output) using same data.

What is wrong?
Does superior mean incorrect?

NT7



AmiBroker


Metastock