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candle
Candlestick chart

Syntax

Arguments
High
 High prices for a security. A column vector.
Low
 Low prices for a security. An column vector.
Close
 Closing prices for a security. A column vector.
Open
 Opening prices for a security. A column vector.
Color
 (Optional) Candlestick color. A string. MATLAB supplies a default color if none is specified. The default color differs depending on the background color of the figure window. See ColorSpec in the MATLAB documentation for color names.

Description
candle(High, Low, Close, Open, Color) plots a candlestick chart given column vectors with the high, low, closing, and opening prices of a security.

If the closing price is greater than the opening price, the body (the region between the opening and closing price) is filled.

If the opening price is greater than the closing price, the body is empty.

Examples
Given High, Low, Close, and Open as equal-size vectors of stock price data

plots a candlestick chart with cyan candles.

See Also
bolling, dateaxis, highlow, movavg, pointfig


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