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Build a Stock Chart Using AnyChart JavaScript Library
A step by step tutorial for building an interactive stock chart that displays the price of Tesla over the years
Data visualization is vastly applied in various fields. One such domain is financial trading, where stock charts are essential for smart market data analysis and decision making. Whether you invest in stocks or not, I am pretty sure that you have come across such graphics or even might need to build one right now. So, would you like to know how to make a stock chart? I’m ready to show you an easy path using the Tesla stock price data and JavaScript! Come along with me throughout this tutorial and you’ll learn how to quickly create elegant, interactive JS stock charts like the one you see in the picture.
What Is a Stock Chart?
Most of you may know the basics, but to ensure that we are all on the same page, I will briefly tell you what a stock chart is.
A stock chart basically represents the price or volume movements of a stock over time by plotting the price or volume figures over the Y-axis and the time period over the X-axis.
Stock charts play a very important role in helping investors spot trends and make the right buy and sell decisions in the fast-paced financial markets.
The most common chart type used to depict stocks is the candlestick stock chart. But you can also use open-high-low-close (OHLC), line, area, column, or other forms of series visualization depending on a particular case and task.
Stock Chart to Be Created
Tesla is a company that is always in the news. It has grown exponentially over the years and that is pretty much reflected in its stock value over time. So, I am going to build a stock chart to showcase the price movement of Tesla Inc. for this tutorial. I will also show you how to add various technical indicators and illustrate the effect of the recent hype surrounding the selling of stocks by Elon Musk.
Here is a peek at the final version of the JavaScript stock chart to get you all pumped up for the upcoming steps.
