JavaScript Candlestick Charts & Graphs

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JavaScript Candlestick Chart forms a column with vertical lines to represent open, high, low & close values of a data point. Candlestick provides a visual support for making decisions in case of Stock, foreign exchange, etc. Candle Stick graphs are beautiful, interactive & supports animation, zooming, panning, annotation. Given example shows JavaScript Candle Stick Chart along with HTML source code that you can edit in-browser or save to run it locally.

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window.onload = function () {

var dataPoints = [];

var chart = new CanvasJS.Chart("chartContainer", {
	animationEnabled: true,
	theme: "light2", // "light1", "light2", "dark1", "dark2"
	exportEnabled: true,
	title: {
		text: "Netflix Stock Price in 2016"
	},
	subtitles: [{
		text: "Weekly Averages"
	}],
	axisX: {
		interval: 1,
		valueFormatString: "MMM"
	},
	axisY: {
		prefix: "$",
		title: "Price"
	},
	toolTip: {
		content: "Date: {x}<br /><strong>Price:</strong><br />Open: {y[0]}, Close: {y[3]}<br />High: {y[1]}, Low: {y[2]}"
	},
	data: [{
		type: "candlestick",
		yValueFormatString: "$##0.00",
		dataPoints: dataPoints
	}]
});

$.get("https://canvasjs.com/data/gallery/javascript/netflix-stock-price.csv", getDataPointsFromCSV);

function getDataPointsFromCSV(csv) {
	var csvLines = points = [];
	csvLines = csv.split(/[\r?\n|\r|\n]+/);
	for (var i = 0; i < csvLines.length; i++) {
		if (csvLines[i].length > 0) {
			points = csvLines[i].split(",");
			dataPoints.push({
				x: new Date(
					parseInt(points[0].split("-")[0]),
					parseInt(points[0].split("-")[1]),
					parseInt(points[0].split("-")[2])
				),
				y: [
					parseFloat(points[1]),
					parseFloat(points[2]),
					parseFloat(points[3]),
					parseFloat(points[4])
				]
			});
		}
	}
	chart.render();
}

}

Chart Customizations

You can set risingColor or color to show the rising or falling price in different colors. Some other frequently used customizations include zoomEnabled, animationEnabled, etc.