Candlestick Chart
The Candlestick chart displays the price movement of an asset over a number of trading periods. Each bar indicates the price at the start and end of the trading period, as well as the highest and lowest price reached during the period. The midpoint of the bar indicates the average price during the period. |  |
Public Variables (Properties)
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Common component variables and variable groups : Name, Visible, Breakpoints, Variable Storage, Container Properties, Styles, Preloader, Events, Component Bindings.
Common chart variables and variable groups: Basic Properties, Legend, Zoom, X and Y Axes, Coordinate Grid, Chart Padding, Tooltip and Visualization: Basic Properties.
Data
The following properties are grouped in the Data group of the chart, and define the data which will be used to create the chart.
Source Data
The source data table used for building custom-data-based charts.
Variable Name: | sourceData |
Records: | 0…Unlimited |
Record Format:
Field Name | Field Type | Field Description |
volume | Double | Typically the number of trades of the asset during the period. |
category | String | Value for the X axis. Typically a timestamp indicating the trading period, but any string can be used. |
open | Double | Asset price at the opening of the trading period. |
close | Double | Asset price at the close of the trading period |
high | Double | Highest price the asset was traded at during the trading period. |
low | Double | Lowest price the asset was traded at during the trading period. |
Source Data Bindings
A set of expressions used to retrieve data from the records of the Source Data table and build the chart dataset. This property only applies to charts based on custom data.
Variable Name: | dataBindings |
Records: | 1 |
Record Format:
Field Name | Field Type | Field Description |
volume | String | Expression to define the Volume of the chart dataset. |
category | String | Expression to define the Category of the chart dataset. |
open | String | Expression to define the Open of the chart dataset. |
close | String | Expression to define the Close of the chart dataset. |
high | String | Expression to define the High of the chart dataset. |
low | String | Expression to define the Low of the chart dataset. |
All fields of the Source Data Bindings table have the following Resolution Environment:
Specified by the Context setting. | |
Value specified by the Source Data table. | |
0 (or dynamic if series propagation is enabled) | |
Standard variables only. |
Auto Load Dataset
See the common property Auto Load Dataset.
Tooltip
In addition to the common Tooltip properties, the following properties specific to the Candlestick chart are under the Tooltip properties group.
Trend Up Fill
Choose the color to indicate for chart elements trending upward.
Variable Name: | trendUpFill |
Records: | 1 |
Record Format:
Field Name | Field Type | Field Description |
trendUpFill | Color | Trend Up Fill |
Trend Down Fill
Choose the color to indicate for chart elements trending downward.
Variable Name: | trendDownFill |
Records: | 1 |
Record Format:
Field Name | Field Type | Field Description |
trendDownFill | Color | Trend Down Fill |
Visualization: Basic Properties
The following properties appear under the Basic Properties subgroup of the Visualization group.
Chart Padding
See chart padding.
Visualization: Stock
The following properties appear under the Stock subgroup of the Visualization group.
Trend Up Fill
Defines the fill color of the bars in the chart that indicate an upward trend.
Variable Name: | styleTrendUpFillStock |
Records: | 1 |
Record Format:
Field Name | Field Type | Field Description |
styleTrendUpFillStock | Color | Trend Up Fill |
Trend Down Fill
Defines the fill color of the bars in the chart that indicate a downward trend.
Variable Name: | styleTrendDownFillStock |
Records: | 1 |
Record Format:
Field Name | Field Type | Field Description |
styleTrendDownFillStock | Color | Trend Down Fill |
Fill Opacity
Controls the opacity level of the fill color for the bars in the chart.
Variable Name: | styleFillOpacityStock |
Records: | 1 |
Record Format:
Field Name | Field Type | Field Description |
styleFillOpacityStock | Float | Fill Opacity |
Border Color
Sets the border color of the bars in the chart.
Variable Name: | styleStrokeStock |
Records: | 1 |
Record Format:
Field Name | Field Type | Field Description |
styleStrokeStock | Color | Border Color |
Border Opacity
Controls the opacity of the border color for the bars in the chart.
Variable Name: | styleStrokeOpacityStock |
Records: | 1 |
Record Format:
Field Name | Field Type | Field Description |
styleStrokeOpacityStock | Float | Border Opacity |
Border Width
Determines the width of the border for the bars in the chart.
Variable Name: | styleLineWidthStock |
Records: | 1 |
Record Format:
Field Name | Field Type | Field Description |
styleLineWidthStock | Integer | Border Width |
Border Dash Interval
Specifies the dash pattern of the border for the bars in the chart.
Variable Name: | styleLineDashStock |
Records: | 1 |
Record Format:
Field Name | Field Type | Field Description |
styleLineDashStock | String | Border Dash Interval |
Shadow Color
Sets the color of the shadow cast by the bars in the chart.
Variable Name: | styleShadowColorStock |
Records: | 1 |
Record Format:
Field Name | Field Type | Field Description |
styleShadowColorStock | Color | Shadow Color |
Shadow Blur
Determines the blurring effect applied to the shadow cast by the bars in the chart.
Variable Name: | styleShadowBlurStock |
Records: | 1 |
Record Format:
Field Name | Field Type | Field Description |
styleShadowBlurStock | Integer | Shadow Blur |
Shadow Offset X
Controls the horizontal offset of the shadow cast by the bars in the chart.
Variable Name: | styleShadowOffsetXStock |
Records: | 1 |
Record Format:
Field Name | Field Type | Field Description |
styleShadowOffsetXStock | Integer | Shadow Offset X |
Shadow Offset Y
Controls the vertical offset of the shadow cast by the bars in the chart.
Variable Name: | styleShadowOffsetYStock |
Records: | 1 |
Record Format:
Field Name | Field Type | Field Description |
styleShadowOffsetYStock | Integer | Shadow Offset Y |
Cursor
Defines the cursor appearance when interacting with the bars in the chart.
Variable Name: | styleCursorStock |
Records: | 1 |
Record Format:
Field Name | Field Type | Field Description |
styleCursorStock | String | Cursor |
Category Style
Define specific styles to apply to any number of series in the chart.
Variable Name: | styleSeriesStyleStock |
Records: | 0…Unlimited |
Record Format:
Field Name | Field Type | Field Description |
series | String | Series |
fill | Color | Fill |
category | String | Category |
r | Integer | Radius |
shape | String | Shape |
fillOpacity | Float | Fill Opacity |
stroke | Color | Stroke |
lineWidth | Integer | Line Width |
lineDash | String | Line Dash |
strokeOpacity | Float | Stroke Opacity |
shadowColor | Color | Shadow Color |
shadowBlur | Integer | Shadow Blur |
shadowOffsetX | Integer | Shadow Offset X |
shadowOffsetY | Integer | Shadow Offset Y |
cursor | String | Line Dash |
Public Events
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Common Events: Common Component Events, Changing Chart Zoom
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