Candlestick charts
Candlestick charts are a style of financial charts that are used to describe price
movements of a security, derivative, or currency. Each candlestick element typically shows one day.
A one-month chart may show the 20 trading days as 20 candlesticks elements. Candlestick charts are
most often used in the analysis of equity and currency price patterns and are similar to box
plots.
The data set that is used to create a candlestick chart must contain open, high, low, and close values for each time period you want to display.
Creating a simple Candlestick chart
- In the Chart Builder's Chart Types section, click the
Candlestick icon.
The canvas updates to display a Candlestick chart template.
- Select a variable as the X-axis variable.
- Select a variable as the High variable.
- Select a variable as the Low variable.
Additional features
- X-axis
- Lists dataset variables that are available for the chart's x-axis.
- High
- Lists dataset variables that are available for the chart's high price value.
- High field summary
- Select a statistical summary function for the selected high variable.
- Low
- Lists dataset variables that are available for the chart's low price value.
- Open
- Lists dataset variables that are available for the chart's opening price value.
- Close
- Lists dataset variables that are available for the chart's closing price value.
- Volume
- Lists dataset variables that are available for the chart's volume bars.
- Category order
- Select the order in which variable categories are sorted.
- As read
- Variable categories are presented as they appear in the dataset.
- Ascending
- Sort variable categories in ascending order.
- Descending
- Sort variable categories in descending order.
- Candlestick
- Toggles the chart data to display as either candlestick or line.
- Moving average
- Provides options for displaying the moving average on the chart. Available options are 5, 10, 20, 30, 60, and 120.
- Switch color
- The toggle control switches the increase and decrease colors.
- Primary title
- The chart title.
- Subtitle
- The chart subtitle, which displays directly beneath the chart title.
- Footnote
- The chart footnote, which displays beneath the chart.