\tikzset{ point/.style={ thick, draw=gray, cross out, inner sep=0pt, minimum width=4pt, minimum height=4pt, }, } \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}[ legend pos=south east, axis x line=middle, axis y line=middle, %grid = major, width=12cm, height=8cm, %grid style={dashed, gray!30}, xmin=-4, % start the diagram at this x-coordinate xmax= 8, % end the diagram at this x-coordinate ymin=-4, % start the diagram at this y-coordinate ymax= 4, % end the diagram at this y-coordinate axis background/.style={fill=white}, %xticklabels={-2,-1.6,...,2}, %yticklabels={-8,-7,...,8}, %tick align=outside, enlargelimits=true, tension=0.08] % plot the stirling-formulae \addplot[domain=-4:8, red, thick,samples=500] {0.5*x}; \addplot[domain=-2:2, red, thick,samples=500] {2*x}; \addplot[domain=-4:4, red, thick,samples=500] {x}; \addplot[domain=-4:8, red, thick,samples=500] {-0.5*x}; \addplot[color=red,only marks,mark=o] plot coordinates { (1.5,3) (1.5,1.5) }; \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture}