ECharts Candlestick (OHLC)
A financial candlestick chart with a synced volume sub-chart and a moving-average overlay — the standard view traders expect for any equity, crypto, FX, or futures contract. Each candle encodes open, high, low, and close in a single glyph: filled body for down days, hollow/colour
Template details
- chart
- candlestick
- ohlc
- finance
- trading
- echarts
When to use this template
This visualization makes obvious the detailed price action and trading sentiment within a time series. Analysts reach for it to understand market dynamics, identify trends, reversals, and volatility, and make informed decisions based on historical price movements and trading activity. It provides a comprehensive view of how a price series behaves over time, beyond just its overall direction.
- Time-series data with regular, sequential intervals (e.g., daily, hourly).
- Requires Open, High, Low, Close, and Volume values for each period.
- High cardinality time dimension, spanning hundreds to thousands of periods.
- Numeric price data (Open, High, Low, Close), typically positive and continuous.
- Numeric volume data, representing transaction counts or quantity.
- Data often includes calculated metrics like moving averages for context.