Dear Judson,

thanks a lot for the patch. It works nicely. it is exactly what I was
looking for.

Regarding the buy and sell positioning. I would actually, given the
overall limitations
I would prefer it as it is over a "snapped" representation. This way,
one can roughly estimate where the buy / sell was
and if multiple fall into the gap, you see even the order..

Klaus

On 9 Jun., 04:28, Judson Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Also notice that there is a built in volume charting capability.. maybe
> something worth looking into?
>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Judson Wilson <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:44 PM, nonlinear <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> >> Judson, if you find time and motivation, perhaps you could do something
> >> about the other mildly annoying chart problem. Look at the attached chart.
> >> Notice how the "buy" and the "sell" annotations are positioned? It looks 
> >> odd
> >> because the annotations are not on the price line. The chart is in fact
> >> totally correct, but because the price resolution is 5 minute OHLC bars and
> >> the executions are plotted with a 1-second resolution, they seem to exist 
> >> as
> >> independent entities. I think the right way to handle it is to "snap" the
> >> "buy/sell" annotations to the corresponding price bar.
>
> >> What do you guys think?
>
> > In my opinion, the "correct" thing to do would be to make the width of the
> > bars such that there is very little gap between them.  Then the bubble would
> > appear to occur somewhere in the middle of the bar.  This might be terribly
> > ugly, though.
>
> > Actually, here is a quick implementation for that effect.  Note it is
> > HORRIBLY SLOW because JFreeChart is a turd, performance wise, in general,
> > but this auto-width calculation method for the candles re-computes the width
> > for each individual bar, by sifting through the dataset and looking for the
> > smallest bar spacing (again, it does this calculation for every bar).  This
> > could be implemented by hand because we already know the bar width, which
> > would be much much faster.
>
> > Anyways, here is the replacement chunk of code, which can easily be tweaked
> > to look a little bit better.  You must zoom in substantially to see the
> > effect:
>
> >     private void createChart() {
> >         CandlestickRenderer candleRenderer = new CandlestickRenderer(-1);
> >         candleRenderer.setDrawVolume(false);
>
> > candleRenderer.setAutoWidthMethod(CandlestickRenderer.WIDTHMETHOD_SMALLEST) 
> > ;
> >         candleRenderer.setAutoWidthGap(0.0);
> >         candleRenderer.setAutoWidthFactor(1.0);
> >         candleRenderer.setUpPaint(Color.GREEN);
> >         candleRenderer.setDownPaint(Color.RED);
> >         candleRenderer.setSeriesPaint(0, new Color(250, 240, 150));
> >         candleRenderer.setBaseStroke(new BasicStroke(1));

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"JBookTrader" group.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
[email protected].
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/jbooktrader?hl=en.

Reply via email to