# How to shift the ticks of a heat map?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-shift-the-ticks-of-a-heat-map/77682
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** plots
**Created:** [March 10, 2022, 1:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-shift-the-ticks-of-a-heat-map/77682 "2022-03-10T13:10:42Z")
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### Author: ![Dan\_Micsa](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dan_micsa/32/30233_2.png) [@Dan\_Micsa](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Dan_Micsa)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2022, 1:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-shift-the-ticks-of-a-heat-map/77682/1 "2022-03-10T13:10:42Z")

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I try to see a correlation matrix in Julia.Plots and the axis are shifted half tick away from where I expect them.

```julia
using Plots
using PlotThemes

rho = cor(Return1D)

ticks_ = (1:1:length(tickers)+1, tickers)
size_ = length(tickers) * 16
heatmap(tickers, tickers, rho, ticks = ticks_, aspect_ratio = 1, size = (size_, size_), c = :RdYlGn_11, xrotation = 90, legend = false)

```

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How can I shift the ticks half step lower on Y and to the left on X?