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Re: Multiple time frames in same chart



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If you got "update each tick" checked for the longer time frame indicator,
it's going to be jagged. Uncheck it and that should clear up the problem.

Tony Haas

At 06:39 PM 2/3/99 -0600, Rod Mckay wrote:
>When I place two different time frames of the same price series in one chart
>(S&P 1 and 5 min) and then create indicators like a moving average for both
>time series, I get indicator display problems. The shorter time frame
>indicator will appear normal but the longer time frame indicator will appear
>jagged.  If I change the status from on to off and then back to on the
>longer term indicator will appear normal but then again begin to display as
>a jagged line as new data is plotted.  The problem only occurs with live
>data.
>
>I've talked to Omega's tech department about the problem.  They, for the
>moment, are also stumped as to what is wrong.  They were unable to create
>the problem on their computers using live data and the same setup for data
>series and indicators that I had.  A possible culprit was thught to be
>display drivers.  I'm using a colorgraphics Evolution 4 graphics card with 2
>Sony monitors.  The tech department at Colorgraphics assured me that a
>number of people are using their graphics cards and successfully operating
>TS 4.0.  Whether there is a problem with other installations using a
>multiple timeframe in the same window is unknown.
>
>I'm using Win98, an AMD-200 CPU, and 64 meg of ram.  I vaguely remember a
>similar problem quite some time ago when I was upgrading operating systems
>but for whatever reason the problem disapeared.