plot multi time series close in value

I am plotting overnight money market rates very close in value so they often end up on top of each other

hE = plot(sdate(begn(k):endn(k)),drates(begn(k):endn(k),1)*100) %,'LineStyle', 'none');

hold on

hO = plot(sdate(begn(k):endn(k)),drates(begn(k):endn(k),2)*100);

hold on

...

I set characteristics

set(hE,'LineStyle', 'none', 'Marker', 'o','MarkerSize', 2,'MarkerEdgeColor','none','MarkerFaceColor',[0 0 1]); % blue

set(hO,'LineStyle', 'none','Marker', 'o','MarkerSize', 2,'MarkerEdgeColor','none','MarkerFaceColor',[ 0 1 0] ); % green

I set Font and Axes Properties

set(gca, ...

'Box' , 'off' , ...

'TickDir' , 'out' , ...

'TickLength' , [.02 .02] , ...

'XMinorTick' , 'on' , ...

'YMinorTick' , 'on' , ...

'YGrid' , 'on' , ...

'XColor' , [.3 .3 .3], ...

'YColor' , [.3 .3 .3], ...

'YTick' , 0:5:350, ...

'LineWidth' , 1 );

set(gca, 'YTick', 0:5:350) % Break 1

set(gca,'YGrid', 'on', 'YTick', 50:5:350) % Break 3

QUESTION:

Can any of the font and axes properties change the spacing between two different time series so that they do not end up on top of each other

Answer 1

[VBBV]

subplot(211)
hE = plot(sdate(begn(k):endn(k)),drates(begn(k):endn(k),1)*100) %,'LineStyle', 'none');
subplot(212)
hO = plot(sdate(begn(k):endn(k)),drates(begn(k):endn(k),2)*100);

you can use subplot

[VBBV]

if you use subplot the overlapping of graphs can be prevented and you'be able to make fairly good comparison of graphs. Since, the values of timeseries are close enough, instead of changing the font and axes properties, its easiler to visaualize them using two seperate graphs aligned equally

[Nancy Hammond]

Thank you. I stil am looking for solution bc I want to plot rates betn their 25 and 75 percentiles to show dispersion and the Fed funds rate between the FOMC target rates. For now I did this in 2 subplots, one target rates, the other w percentiles