Stock Chart
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Short Description
The Stock Chart is represented by the StockSeriesView object, which belongs to Financial Series Views (which are also called Low-High-Open-Close).
This view is used to show variation in stock prices over the course of a day. The Low and High prices are represented by the bottom and top values of the vertical line which is shown at each point, and the Open and Close prices are represented by left and right tick marks, correspondingly.
For Stock charts, you can choose for which price level (Low, High, Open, or Close) to enable the FinancialSeriesViewBase.ReductionOptions, meaning that in case the specified price is lower in comparison to the previous point’s value, the subsequent point is painted red (or any other color).
A Stock chart is shown in the image below. Note that this chart type is based upon the XYDiagram, so it can be rotated to show bars either vertically or horizontally.
To learn how to exclude holidays and weekends from an axis scale, refer to Work Time and Workday Configuration.
For more information, see Financial Charting.
Chart Type Characteristics
The table below lists the main characteristics of this chart type.
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Series View type | StockSeriesView |
| Diagram type | 2D-XYDiagram |
| Number of arguments per series point | 1 |
| Number of values per series point | 4 (Low, High, Open, Close) |
Note
For information on which chart types can be combined with the Stock Chart, refer to the Series Views Compatibility document.
Example
This example demonstrates how to create a ChartControl with a series of the StockSeriesView type, and add this chart to a form at runtime. Before proceeding with this example, first create a Windows Forms Application in Visual Studio, and include all necessary assemblies to the References list of your project.
Then, add the following code to the Form.Load event handler.
Note that you can exclude non-working days (weekends and holidays) from an axis range, via the AxisBase.WorkdaysOnly and AxisBase.WorkdaysOptions properties. And, to learn which instruments for financial analysis are available in XtraCharts, refer to Indicators.
Note
A complete sample project is available at https://github.com/DevExpress-Examples/how-to-create-a-stock-chart-e1215
using System;
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);
// Specify the date-time argument scale type for the series,
// as it is qualitative, by default.
series1.ArgumentScaleType = ScaleType.DateTime;
// Add points to it.
series1.Points.Add(new SeriesPoint(new DateTime(2017, 3, 1),
new object[] { 24.00, 25.00, 25.00, 24.875 }));
series1.Points.Add(new SeriesPoint(new DateTime(2017, 3, 2),
new object[] { 23.625, 25.125, 24.00, 24.875 }));
series1.Points.Add(new SeriesPoint(new DateTime(2017, 3, 3),
new object[] { 26.25, 28.25, 26.75, 27.00 }));
series1.Points.Add(new SeriesPoint(new DateTime(2017, 3, 6),
new object[] { 26.50, 27.875, 26.875, 27.25 }));
series1.Points.Add(new SeriesPoint(new DateTime(2017, 3, 7),
new object[] { 26.375, 27.50, 27.375, 26.75 }));
series1.Points.Add(new SeriesPoint(new DateTime(2017, 3, 8),
new object[] { 25.75, 26.875, 26.75, 26.00 }));
series1.Points.Add(new SeriesPoint(new DateTime(2017, 3, 9),
new object[] { 25.75, 26.75, 26.125, 26.25 }));
series1.Points.Add(new SeriesPoint(new DateTime(2017, 3, 10),
new object[] { 25.75, 26.375, 26.375, 25.875 }));
series1.Points.Add(new SeriesPoint(new DateTime(2017, 3, 13),
new object[] { 24.875, 26.125, 26.00, 25.375 }));
series1.Points.Add(new SeriesPoint(new DateTime(2017, 3, 14),
new object[] { 25.125, 26.00, 25.625, 25.75 }));
// Add the series to the chart.
stockChart.Series.Add(series1);
// Access the view-type-specific options of the series.
StockSeriesView myView = (StockSeriesView)series1.View;
myView.LineThickness = 2;
myView.LevelLineLength = 0.25;
// Specify the series reduction options.
myView.ReductionOptions.ColorMode = ReductionColorMode.OpenToCloseValue;
myView.ReductionOptions.Level = StockLevel.Close;
myView.ReductionOptions.Visible = true;
// Access the chart's diagram.
XYDiagram diagram = ((XYDiagram)stockChart.Diagram);
// Access the type-specific options of the diagram.
diagram.AxisY.WholeRange.MinValue = 22;
// Exclude weekends from the X-axis range,
// to avoid gaps in the chart's data.
diagram.AxisX.DateTimeScaleOptions.WorkdaysOnly = true;
// Hide the legend (if necessary).
stockChart.Legend.Visibility = DevExpress.Utils.DefaultBoolean.False;
// Add a title to the chart (if necessary).
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);
}
Tip
A complete sample project is available in the DevExpress Code Examples database at http://www.devexpress.com/example=E1215.