Charting Financial Data

Introduction

The following toolbox financial charting functions plot financial data and produce presentation-quality figures quickly and easily.

bolling	Bollinger band chart
candle	Candlestick chart
candle	Time series candle plot
pointfig	Point and figure chart
highlow	High, low, open, close chart
highlow	Time series High-Low plot
movavg	Leading and lagging moving averages chart

These functions work with standard MATLAB^® functions that draw axes, control appearance, and add labels and titles. The toolbox also provides a comprehensive set of charting functions that work with timetable objects, see Chart Technical Indicators.

Here is a Bollinger band chart. This example loads data from an external file (ibm.dat) and then calls the function using subsets of the data. The MATLAB variable ibm, which is created by loading ibm.dat, is a six-column matrix where each row is a trading day's data and where columns 2, 3, and 4 contain the high, low, and closing prices, respectively. The data in ibm.dat is fictional and for illustrative use only.