Charts for stocks with low volume

[wyldegoos]

Perhaps this is a support issue and I am merely overlooking a solution already included in MT, but I would like to have every trading day appear on my charts, even days when there is no volume. A simple dash at the last price level would be fine, preferably a different color than days with trading volume. On low volume stocks that I watch the charts appear scrunched up with fat candles. This throws things off a little bit for chart pattern recognition. 

[Jerry Medved]

are you referring to intraday or Historical charts?  Give me a symbol so I can see an example please

[wyldegoos]

Historical charts. A couple examples from one of my smallcap/microcap watchlists are SRBCF and PMFI.

[Mike Medved]

Here's the problem... MT on historical charts has no idea whether a day should or could have had trades or not. It just takes whatever sequence of dates (and prices) it is fed and shows it. To figure out whether a particular date is a trading day or not is a bit of a pain, especially when you go back more than just a hundred days or so. I just took a look at how other sources show it. Same problem. Example: http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chdet=1389819600000&chddm=13294&chls=IntervalBasedLine&q=OTCMKTS:PMFI&ntsp=0&ei=z9LlUvjvIYmW7AH3fw

[wyldegoos]

Thanks for the information. I can see how it is a lot of work on the software side. No worries,the missing days are more of a small inconvenience than a real problem, so I can live with it. Guess I got spoiled on Big Charts data. They left open space for every trading day so the weeks and months are the same length on the chart, even in the thinnest volume. Maybe I need to petition Google to send empty trading days with their data.

 

By the way, after using the MT beta for a week I am impressed. Thanks for all the hard work.