Why is NinjaTrader slower when zoomed out?

[Currywurst]

Hi,

I'm using multiple moving average indicators ("rainbow").

I noticed, when zooming into the chart, the UI responds okay. But when I zoom out the UI starts to lag (especially the crosshair) everytime the indicators get updated.

Why is that ? Doesn't NT cache the values of indicators ? If so, shouldn't the required processing power be the same no matter if zoomed in or out (-> only required to update indicators for last bar) ?

Zoomed out, NT has to draw more plots - but the drawing alone shouldn't be so time consuming ?

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

Since much more info needs to be rendered on the chart. This is nothing to do with the indicators calculations.

[Currywurst]

So it's "just" the drawing of multiple plots being slow ?

Seems to be so. I just replaced the calculations of the "complex" MAs and it's still slower. So it's the rendering.

Hopefully this can be improved. Drawing several plots shouldn't make a modern CPU sweat :) .

But that's a future suggestion. I'm going to add it to my other "performance" thread.

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

>> So it's "just" the drawing of multiple plots being slow ?
Correct