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StockLevel Enum

Lists the values used to identify the levels of price data.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraCharts

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraCharts.v24.1.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Charts

Declaration

[ResourceFinder(typeof(XtraChartsResFinder), "PropertyNamesRes")]
[TypeConverter(typeof(EnumTypeConverter))]
public enum StockLevel

Members

Name Description
Low

Specifies the Low level of price data.

High

Specifies the High level of price data.

Open

Specifies the Open level of price data.

Close

Specifies the Close level of price data.

Related API Members

The following properties accept/return StockLevel values:

Library Related API Members
Cross-Platform Class Library ReductionStockOptions.Level
StockPointOptions.ValueLevel
WinForms Controls ReductionStockOptionsModel.Level

Remarks

The values listed by the StockLevel enumeration are used to set the ReductionStockOptions.Level and StockPointOptions.ValueLevel properties.

Example

This example creates a ChartControl with a series of the StockSeriesView type and adds this chart to a form at runtime. Before you proceed with this example, create a Windows Forms Application in Visual Studio and include all necessary assemblies in the References list of your project.

For more information about the features of financial charts, refer to the following help topic: Financial Charting

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using DevExpress.XtraCharts;
//...
    private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {
        // Create a new chart.
        ChartControl stockChart = new ChartControl();

        // Create a stock series.
        Series series1 = new Series("Series 1", ViewType.Stock);

        // Bind the series to data.
        series1.DataSource = GetDataPoints();
        series1.SetFinancialDataMembers("Argument", "Low", "High", "Open", "Close");

        // Specify that date-time arguments are expected.
        series1.ArgumentScaleType = ScaleType.DateTime;

        // Add the series to the chart.
        stockChart.Series.Add(series1);

        // Customize the series view settings.
        StockSeriesView view = (StockSeriesView)series1.View;

        view.LineThickness = 2;
        view.LevelLineLength = 0.25;

        // Specify the series reduction options.
        view.ReductionOptions.ColorMode = ReductionColorMode.OpenToCloseValue;
        view.ReductionOptions.Level = StockLevel.Close;
        view.ReductionOptions.Visible = true;

        // Set point colors.
        view.Color = Color.Green;
        view.ReductionOptions.Color = Color.Red;

        // Access the chart's diagram.
        XYDiagram diagram = (XYDiagram)stockChart.Diagram;

        // Exclude empty ranges from the X-axis range
        // to avoid gaps in the chart's data.
        diagram.AxisX.DateTimeScaleOptions.SkipRangesWithoutPoints = true;

        // Hide the range without points at the beginning of the y-axis.
        diagram.AxisY.WholeRange.AlwaysShowZeroLevel = false;

        // Hide the legend.
        stockChart.Legend.Visibility = DevExpress.Utils.DefaultBoolean.False;

        // Add a title to the chart.
        stockChart.Titles.Add(new ChartTitle());
        stockChart.Titles[0].Text = "Stock Chart";

        // Add the chart to the form.
        stockChart.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
        this.Controls.Add(stockChart);
    }

    List<DataPoint> GetDataPoints() {
        List<DataPoint> dataPoints = new List<DataPoint> {
            new DataPoint(DateTime.Now.AddDays(-9), 24.00, 25.00, 25.00, 24.875),
            new DataPoint(DateTime.Now.AddDays(-8), 23.625, 25.125, 24.00, 24.875),
            new DataPoint(DateTime.Now.AddDays(-7), 26.25, 28.25, 26.75, 27.00),
            new DataPoint(DateTime.Now.AddDays(-6), 26.50, 27.875, 26.875, 27.25),

            new DataPoint(DateTime.Now.AddDays(-4), 25.75, 26.875, 26.75, 26.00),
            new DataPoint(DateTime.Now.AddDays(-3), 25.75, 26.75, 26.125, 26.25),
            new DataPoint(DateTime.Now.AddDays(-2), 25.75, 26.375, 26.375, 25.875),
            new DataPoint(DateTime.Now.AddDays(-1), 24.875, 26.125, 26.00, 25.375),
            new DataPoint(DateTime.Now.AddDays(0), 25.125, 26.00, 25.625, 25.75),
            };
        return dataPoints;
    }
}
public class DataPoint {
    public DateTime Argument { get; set; }
    public double Low { get; set; }
    public double High { get; set; }
    public double Open { get; set; }
    public double Close { get; set; }
    public DataPoint(DateTime arg, double low, double high, double open, double close) {
        this.Argument = arg;
        this.Low = low;
        this.High = high;
        this.Open = open;
        this.Close = close;
    }
}
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