I would like to plot historical data (overlay false) INTO THE FUTURE - time

For example, suppose I wanted to plot like this:
plot(close[500])
This would give me the close of 500 bars ago, right? But the indicator would stop at the current bar. How might I continue to project the plot into the future?
So that I might have 500 bars from the past, AND the NEXT 100 bars also plotted?
Bear in mind that in this case the NEXT 100 bars of the series still occurred far in the past; starting from close[500], projecting out to the 100th bar would be approaching close[400], if you can follow me... visualize this...
Any thoughts? Thank you...

You can use the offset parameter with negative numbers also:
plot(close, offset = -100)
This will plot the close price of 100 bars in the future on current bar

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Need a little help on an equation for a GUI "Slider"

This is a small equation that's giving me a headache, I'm close to solving but- Ugh.
I'll try to be prompt.
I have this:
As you see it is a slider that goes from 0.1x to 3x Difficulty.
I have other sliders like this, for audio for example that just go from 0% to 100%.
That works fine.
However, with a minimum value greater than 0 my math breaks a bit and I'm stuck not being able to
perfectly slide the bar all the way to the bottom because it isn't 0 and it is 0.1 instead.
I want to make it to where even if the minimum value isn't 0, the bar goes all the way to empty.
Here is the relevant equations/calculations at play:
var percent = val/val_max
var adjustment = ((x2-x1)*val_min)-((((x2-x1)*val_min)*percent)*val_min)
var x2_final = (x1+((x2-x1)*percent))-adjustment
percent is the percentage of the current value relative to the max value (0.0 to 1.0)
adjustment is trying to find how much to additionally add/remove from x2_final based on the current value to keep the slider properly scaled when the minimum value isn't 0. (This is where the problem is)
x2_final is the final (in pixels) coordinate where the slider should stop based on the previous calculations.
Initially the slider would over fill when full (that was fixed by the current adjustments) but now the slider doesn't go all the way empty and leaves a "0.1" worth of slider.
I don't usually use forums or stackoverflow as I try to figure out things on my own but so I apologize if my explanation needs work.
Here is what the slider looks like when I set it as low as it will go:
Also, if I have more math related problems, are there any good tools I can use to help simulate my calculations like this so people can run it for them selves or something?
Thanks in advance!
Solved it!
So my equation was a bit wrong for the adjustment.
As now it looks like this:
var percent = val/val_max
var percent_min = val_min/val_max
var adjustment = ((x2-x1)*percent_min)-(((x2-x1)*percent_min)*percent)
var x2_final = (x1+((x2-x1)*percent))-adjustment
And now the slider properly fills to full as well as empties to the bottom,
regardless of what the minimum value is.
But I also noticed then the bar as I was sliding it wasn't following my mouse.
So to fix that I had to go later in my code where I update the current value of the slider as the user clicks and changes it...
var mouse_x_percent = round2((mouse_x-x1+adjustment)/(x2-x1+adjustment),2)
Just had to add the adjustment to both sides of that calculation (getting the mouse_x's percentage relative to the beginning and end of the slider itself which would then be used to calculate the new value by multiplying the mouse_x_percent with the max value).
(Round2() takes two numbers, the first being the number to round, and the second to what decimal place)
Always love solving a problem, I hope this helps someone else.

Matlab - figure draw limit

I am writing a code that visualizes temperature changes on a drawing and can't overcome a problem that appears. Any help would be really appreciated, I couldn't find anything about it anywhere.
The code is long, but in short:
There is a big 'while' loop in which colored dots and corresponding temperatures are drawn on the 3 figures. The plot moves and shows some statistics, this is for a 24h+ streak of measurements, so ~1500+ points of data. Everything goes smoothly until something, I'm not sure, breaks after about 1000 points of data.
Maybe it's a memory leak, I have no idea as I've never encountered this before. Some lines disappear, all the drawn text data dissapears, the text font changes, plot lines become thicker and circle boundaries become thinner.
Has anyone encountered something similar and knows how to deal with this problem?
Edit: SOLVED by siliconwafer, switching renderer to zbuffer worked and everything is fine now, thanks :)

Y axis level need to be moved little left in dc.js chart

I am drawing charts using dc.js.The following is a frequency VS Day Chart
I am using the following line to generate the titles:
..something.yAxisLabel("Frequency").xAxisLabel('Day');
But the problem is as you see when the frequency is so large the Y axis title is colliding with the frequency numbers. So is there any simple way to move the Y axis title left?
The layout of auxiliary elements such as axes and legends is not completely automatic in dc.js; use .margins() to adjust where necessary.
https://github.com/dc-js/dc.js/blob/master/web/docs/api-latest.md#marginsmargins
It would be great to figure this out automatically but it is difficult to calculate, and easy to work around, so I guess no one has gotten annoyed enough to submit a fix. :)

is it prohibited to use transition interval same as redraw interval?

I've been trying D3 for a day or two now. So I'm a D3 newbie but have lots of C/C++, Java, PHP, Javascript, etc background.
I started from the tutorials page github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Tutorials, and went fairly meticulously through
- Introduction
- Three Little Circles
- Thinking with Joins
- How Selections Work
first trying examples verbatim, sometimes trying different changes to see if I understand the results.
I then jumped to A Bar Chart, Part 1, and Part 2.
I ended up with results pretty much exactly as expected by the end of Part 2. The tutorial only has code fragments and I don't see a spot in the tutorial where it says "here is the full finished result you should end up with", nonetheless I end up with this http://jsbin.com/oqetuw/2/edit and it looks to be working identically to the tutorial.
Note for those who haven't tried this tutorial, the key points I'm asking about are the redraw interval, 1500 ms, the transition duration, 1000 ms, and the transition ease function, which the tutorial doesn't use or specify, but I've googled to find that it defaults to cubic-in-out.
As my goal is for a continuous smooth scrolling across the screen, I changed the redraw interval to 1000, and the transition ease function to "linear", and the result is here http://jsbin.com/ijumuv/1/edit
And these are the only changes as shown here:
$ diff tut2.09.html tut2.10.html
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< }, 1500);
---
> }, 1000);
78a79
> .ease("linear")
82a84
> .ease("linear")
86a89
> .ease("linear")
The strange behaviour, and thus the question is, why do occasionally the bars that reach the left edge seem to bounce back and accumulate from left to right, behind the main bars? (and also occasionally get cleared)
Undoing only the 1500 -> 1000 change, the problem seems never to happen (so it is scrolling every 1.5 s, with each scroll duration being 1 s). So it would seem maybe if D3 is busy still doing the transition, it fails to remove them? or some other explanation I can't figure yet.
Thanks in advance for any tips.
Yeah, there are issues with d3 transitions. When the interval and duration are both 1000, there is high chance for the redraw operations to occur before the prior transition() on that selection is finished. And that messes with the data binding, or something along those lines.
I modified your code such that it continuously checks whether the previous redraw transition has finished before calling the next one. This is by no means "good javascript", but it does illustrate the issue, and some way around it. To understand what I added, just look for all occurrences of __readyForNext in the code. It should make sense.

d3.js - Irregular layout on column chart when columns represent months

Check out this quick and dirty example that I threw together: http://zoopoetics.com/d3/irregular_layout.html
d3 is doing its job admirably, laying out the columns at irregular intervals because months are of irregular durations. As we all know, a month can last from 28 to 31 days.
Thing is, the irregular layout is unsettling to the eye. I want the columns to lay out at regular pixel intervals along the horizontal axis.
Looked all over the googles for an answer and found very little about this problem, which suggests that I may be missing something obvious.
Has anyone else been here and surmounted the problem? Thanks!
My first approach would be to use the time x axis but render the bars against a different scale of lets say 365/12 intervals.
The x scale I think should have the month name labels in the middle of each month as well as a tick at the middle:
Here is my version of your file
here

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