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Creating Stock Chart
Spread.Sheets Documentation > Developer's Guide > Customizing the Appearance > Understanding Chart > Working with Chart Types > Creating Stock Chart

An Stock chart is extensively used to illustrate fluctuations in the data. It can represent fluctuations for stock, daily rainfall, or annual temperatures. Typically, this chart is ideal for analysing financial data and visualizing stock information.

The data arranged in columns or rows of a worksheet can be plotted in a Stock chart.

Spread.Sheets supports the following types of Stock charts. In the examples shown below, the market data anlysis at different time intervals is depicted with the help of different types of stock charts.

  1.  High-Low-Close

    A high-low-close chart displays the data values organized in the order : 1) high, 2) low, 3) close with the close value lying in between the high and low values.

    An image of a high-low-close chart is shown below:
            

  2. Open-High-Low-Close

    An open-high-low-close chart displays the data values organized in the order : 1) open, 2) high, 3) low and then 4) close.

    An image of a open-high-low-close chart is shown below:
            

  3. Volume-High-Low-Close

    A volume-high-low-close chart displays the data values organized in the order : 1) volume, 2) high, 3) low and then 4) close.

    An image of a volume-high-low-close chart is shown below:
            

  4. Volume-Open-High-Low-Close

    A volume-open-high-low-close chart displays the data values organized in the order : 1) volume, 2) open, 3) high, 4) low and then 5) close.

    An image of a volume-open-high-low-close chart is shown below:
            

Using Code

This code shows how to add different types of stock charts in a spreadsheet.

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var data = dataSource;

function initSpread(spread) {

spread.suspendPaint();

spread.options.tabStripRatio = 0.7;

 

var chartTypeStr = ['stockHLC', 'stockOHLC', 'stockVHLC', 'stockVOHLC'];

var chartType = [{

type: GC.Spread.Sheets.Charts.ChartType.stockHLC,

desc: chartTypeStr[0],

}, {

type: GC.Spread.Sheets.Charts.ChartType.stockOHLC,

desc: chartTypeStr[1],

}, {

type: GC.Spread.Sheets.Charts.ChartType.stockVHLC,

desc: chartTypeStr[2],

}, {

type: GC.Spread.Sheets.Charts.ChartType.stockVOHLC,

desc: chartTypeStr[3],

}];

 

 

var sheets = spread.sheets;

var sheet = sheets[sheets.length - 1];

 

 

sheet.suspendPaint();

sheet.name(chartTypeStr[chartTypeStr.length - 1]);

sheet.setArray(0, 0, data);

 

sheet.getRange(0, 0, 61, 1).formatter('dd/mm/yyyy');

 

 

sheet.setColumnWidth(0, 80);

sheet.resumePaint();

initStockHLCChartSheetData(sheets[0], chartTypeStr[0]);

initStockOHLCChartSheetData(sheets[1], chartTypeStr[1]);

initStockVHLCChartSheetData(sheets[2], chartTypeStr[2]);

 

for (var i = 0; i < chartType.length; i++) {

 

 

sheet = sheets[i];

 

initChart(sheet, chartType[i].type, i);//add chart

 

 

}

spread.resumePaint();

}

 

function initStockHLCChartSheetData(sheet, sheetName) {

 

 

sheet.name(sheetName);

sheet.suspendPaint();

 

var formula = "='stockVOHLC'!";

for (var i = 0; i < data.length - 1; i++) {

var formula1 = formula + 'A' + (i + 1);

 

 

sheet.setFormula(i, 0, formula1);

 

formula1 = formula + 'D' + (i + 1);

 

 

sheet.setFormula(i, 1, formula1);

 

formula1 = formula + 'E' + (i + 1);

 

 

sheet.setFormula(i, 2, formula1);

 

formula1 = formula + 'F' + (i + 1);

 

 

sheet.setFormula(i, 3, formula1);

}

 

sheet.getRange(0, 0, 61, 1).formatter('dd/mm/yyyy');

 

 

sheet.setColumnWidth(0, 80);

sheet.resumePaint();

}

 

function initStockOHLCChartSheetData(sheet, sheetName) {

 

 

sheet.name(sheetName);

sheet.suspendPaint();

 

var formula = "='stockVOHLC'!";

for (var i = 0; i < data.length - 1; i++) {

var formula1 = formula + 'A' + (i + 1);

 

 

sheet.setFormula(i, 0, formula1);

 

formula1 = formula + 'C' + (i + 1);

 

 

sheet.setFormula(i, 1, formula1);

 

formula1 = formula + 'D' + (i + 1);

 

 

sheet.setFormula(i, 2, formula1);

 

formula1 = formula + 'E' + (i + 1);

 

 

sheet.setFormula(i, 3, formula1);

 

formula1 = formula + 'F' + (i + 1);

 

 

sheet.setFormula(i, 4, formula1);

}

 

sheet.getRange(0, 0, 61, 1).formatter('dd/mm/yyyy');

 

 

sheet.setColumnWidth(0, 80);

sheet.resumePaint();

}

 

function initStockVHLCChartSheetData(sheet, sheetName) {

 

 

sheet.name(sheetName);

sheet.suspendPaint();

 

var formula = "='stockVOHLC'!";

for (var i = 0; i < data.length - 1; i++) {

var formula1 = formula + 'A' + (i + 1);

 

 

sheet.setFormula(i, 0, formula1);

 

formula1 = formula + 'B' + (i + 1);

 

 

sheet.setFormula(i, 1, formula1);

 

formula1 = formula + 'D' + (i + 1);

 

 

sheet.setFormula(i, 2, formula1);

 

formula1 = formula + 'E' + (i + 1);

 

 

sheet.setFormula(i, 3, formula1);

 

formula1 = formula + 'f' + (i + 1);

 

 

sheet.setFormula(i, 4, formula1);

}

 

sheet.getRange(0, 0, 61, 1).formatter('dd/mm/yyyy');

 

 

sheet.setColumnWidth(0, 80);

sheet.resumePaint();

}

 

function initChart(sheet, chartType, index) {

 

 

sheet.suspendPaint();

 

var rangeIndex = ['A1:D61', 'A1:E61', 'A1:E61', 'A1:F61'];

//add chart

var chart = sheet.charts.add('Chart1', chartType, 270, 60, 615, 270, rangeIndex[index]);

 

 

sheet.resumePaint();

}