Overlay Alignment Question

[Darth Tradicus]

Hello, I guess this is a fairly basic/dumb mechanics question that I'm having trouble figuring out...

I have a line chart of SPY overlayed over a HeikinAshi Candle chart of SPY through the comparison feature in edit studies.

Mainly wanted to overlay the line so that I could quickly see exactly where price was closing at every heikin ashi candle. Problem though, the price levels on the left of the chart for the SPY line don't align with the price levels on the right side for the candles- so the line is off. I can click and drag on the price level to pull the line toward where the candle close is, but then scrolling left to right, the chart no longer fits to screen.

Is there any way around this, to get the line overlay but with price aligning on the left and right? Or perhaps an overlay indicator that does? Guess I really just need a line to connect the close of each candle...

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[BenTen]

Move one study to the lower subgraph.

 

[Darth Tradicus]

Move one study to the lower subgraph.

Is there still a way to have it on the upper chart? Maybe I'm going about it wrong trying to use an overlay. Would it just be easier to make an indicator that draws a line from close to close per candle?

 

[mashume]

Is there still a way to have it on the upper chart? Maybe I'm going about it wrong trying to use an overlay. Would it just be easier to make an indicator that draws a line from close to close per candle?

Yes, it would be fairly straight ahead to plot the close of every candle, and then it will be on the right-hand price scale. You can make it as fancy as you want, either with changing line styles (points, horizontal, etc...) or even go all out for candles using AddChart() which is largely unsupported and undocumented (except around here )

-mashume

 

[Darth Tradicus]

Thanks for the help guys- took a shot at just plotting close and setting a paintingstrategy and it worked lol. I was way overcomplicating things