Predictable Price Scale Increments / Grid Alignment (like TradingView)
Currently, when adjusting the price scale or zooming in/out, the grid lines and price labels shift in ways that make it difficult to maintain consistent reference points. The increments are not fixed, so the grid rarely aligns with round numbers, such as prices ending in 0 or 5.
TradingView handles this very well: price scaling adjusts only in predictable increments, ensuring that grid lines and annotations consistently align with key price levels. This greatly improves readability and precision, especially when performing detailed analysis or strategy development.
What I’m asking for:
An option for fixed scaling increments (e.g., grid lines always at .00, .05, .10 levels)
Grid and price labels that remain locked to meaningful levels regardless of zoom
A user-selectable increment step (5-pip / 10-pip / custom spacing)
- How does this impact your experience?
Comments3
Diana Zhoshko
Dec 10, 2025
Hi @User ,
Could you please share a short video or example demonstrating how this currently works on your side and where exactly the behavior becomes problematic?
Timo Sturm
Dec 11, 2025
Hello again, below I have attached two photos that hopefully help get my idea across. I'm a bit pressed for time, so the mobile version of either software has to suffice as a reference point.
You can see that on Trading view (second screenshot), I can get the grid lines and price denotations to appear in clean intervals of 50 pipettes.
Forextester will always try to fill the gaps with new numbers and grid lines when you try to adjust the scaling. It's possible I'm missing something, but I have yet to find a way to recreate my preferred environment.
It's an integral part of my strategy to watch skirmishes around these fifty levels, where orders usually cluster up.
On Forextester meanwhile, I have to have a close look at each skirmish and potentially create a horizontal line to recreate the effect. For me personally, this is currently pain enough to rely on other backtesting software despite a strong preference for forextester in almost every other way.
Cheers!
Diana Zhoshko
Dec 11, 2025
Thank you for your suggestion and for providing the screenshots.
We’ve passed it along to our development team, and they’ll review it for potential inclusion in future updates.