Stock Data Charts
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- Subject: [mg93651] Stock Data Charts
- From: "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:56:55 -0500 (EST)
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The question [mg93576] on calculating stock data got me interested in how one might construct conventional stock price charts such as one sees in newspapers. Using the Presentations package I made a price-volume chart for the DJI for the year 2008. It has a separate volume chart under the price chart and they each have their own tick scale lines. For a time scale I use a colored line with alternate colors for each month and the short month names under each colored segment. There are tooltips for the price chart showing the date, low, high and closing price for each trading day, and another tooltip on the volume chart showing the date and volume. Peter Lindsay at the Mathematical Institute in the University of St Andrews [ www.mcs.st-and.ac.uk ] has kindly undertaken to maintain an archive that provides downloadable notebooks and PDF files for various Presentations solutions that have appeared on MathGroup. http://blackbook.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~Peter/djmpark/html/ The chart can be viewed there. It would be very easy to add other types of data charts in additional to, or instead of the volume data. David Park djmpark at comcast.net http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark