Candlestick series

A candlestick series is another type of financial series, as OHLC/HLC line series and OHLC/HLC bar series. It is also intendend to be used in the stock market, displaying prices progression. It is called candlestick for its similarity with a candle, with strings(wicks) coming out from both extremities of the candle's body. The top and bottom of the candlestick's body correspond to the 'open' and 'close' values, in a bearish condition, or vice versa, in a bullish condition. Bearish and bullish conditions are distinguished by candlesticks painted in different colors. The top of the upper line coming out from the top of the candlestick's body corresponds to the 'high' value and the bottom of the lower line corresponds to the 'low' value.

Any OHLC series type is 'ohlc'. To specify a candlestick series the parameter seriex_type must be passed values 4 or 5, to identify rectangular and rounded candlesticks, respectively.
The number of values passed to the seriex_values parameter must always be a multiple of 4. Every sequential set of 4 values is assigned to one data point, corresponding to the open, high, low and close values.

For a complete list of candlestick series parameters, click here. The properties of candlestick series are a subset of this list.

For a complete list of parameters shared by series displayed by GraphApplet.class, click here.




<applet code="GraphApplet.class" codebase="../../../demo/applets/classes" archive="GraphChart.jar" width=400 height=250>

<param name="serie1" value="ohlc,Candlestick series,000000"> <!-- The color has no effect with candlesticks -->
<param name="serie1_type" value="4"> <!-- 4 is a rectangular candlestick and 5 is a rounded candlestick.-->
<param name="serie1_values" value="
185.00,178.00,179.00,182.5,
196.00,183.50,183.95,192.90,
196.95,189.20,194.00,190.00,
195.50,186.55,191.00,187.25,
195.60,190.00,192.00,192.00,
207.35,190.10,191.10,207.35,
214.00,193.10,211.25,196.15,
202.80,189.50,196.00,196.45,
206.35,194.30,197.00,199.00,
208.00,197.00,204.00,198.10">
<param name="serie1_legendon" value="no"> <!-- no need to display legend -->
</applet>