RE: st: display graphs on log scale

[Pradipto Banerjee <pradipto.banerjee@adainvestments.com>]

Thanks, Maarten


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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Maarten Buis
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 3:03 PM
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Subject: Re: st: display graphs on log scale

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Pradipto Banerjee wrote:
> I have a series that is cumulative returns (of a trading strategy) and I am displaying a line graphs versus date as follows:
>
> . line cumreturns date
>
> Since the cumulative returns grows exponentially, is there any way to change the graph such that scale on Y-axis is logarithmic?

twoway line cumreturns date, yscale(log)

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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