GD::Graph - Can it create a stock chart

[Jarson]

I would like to know if GD::Graph can be used to create a "Stock Chart".
This is a series of lines with three data points representing the
high/low/close. Perhaps there is a more correct name for this type of chart,
but it is referred to this in MS Excel. My application is NOT for tracking
stocks, and I will use it for the high/low/average for several days.

Thanks,
Jarson (jarson) from Sygration.
That's a dot com company (you can figure out the e-mail address if needed).

[Gregory Toomey]

Jarson wrote:

> I would like to know if GD::Graph can be used to create a "Stock Chart".
> This is a series of lines with three data points representing the
> high/low/close. Perhaps there is a more correct name for this type of
> chart,
> but it is referred to this in MS Excel. My application is NOT for
> tracking stocks, and I will use it for the high/low/average for several
> days.

Yes. In fact many online charting applications use Perl.

[url]http://ipo-australia.com/scgi-bin/beta/graph.cgi?graph=XAO_year_550x350[/url]
(This uses plain GD & is not in production yet).

gtoomey

[Jarson]

Your example is not a stock chart. It is a line chart (although a very nice
one, and I do want to know how you were able to get all the daily data yet
only show monthly data titles and vertical lines).

A stock chart (again, perhaps not the most correct name) shows the
high/low/close for each data point.

Jarson


"Gregory Toomey" <nospam@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:2sl464F1m4qf8U1@uni-berlin.de...

> Jarson wrote:
>

>> I would like to know if GD::Graph can be used to create a "Stock Chart".
>> This is a series of lines with three data points representing the
>> high/low/close. Perhaps there is a more correct name for this type of
>> chart,
>> but it is referred to this in MS Excel. My application is NOT for
>> tracking stocks, and I will use it for the high/low/average for several
>> days.

>
> Yes. In fact many online charting applications use Perl.
>
> [url]http://ipo-australia.com/scgi-bin/beta/graph.cgi?graph=XAO_year_550x350[/url]
> (This uses plain GD & is not in production yet).
>
> gtoomey

[Peter Scott]

In article <SWd9d.31844$HO1.1289658@news20.bellglobal.com>,
"Jarson" <jarsonk@nospam.com> writes:

>Your example is not a stock chart. It is a line chart (although a very nice
>one, and I do want to know how you were able to get all the daily data yet
>only show monthly data titles and vertical lines).

Yes, I would like to know how to do that too.

>A stock chart (again, perhaps not the most correct name) shows the
>high/low/close for each data point.

GD::Chart calls this a hi-low-close chart. It rocks, if you can build
all the dependencies. It hides its CPAN light under a bushel somewhat:

[url]http://search.cpan.org/~rdp/GD-Chart-0.05/[/url]

>Jarson
>
>
>"Gregory Toomey" <nospam@bigpond.com> wrote in message
>news:2sl464F1m4qf8U1@uni-berlin.de...

>> Jarson wrote:
>>

>>> I would like to know if GD::Graph can be used to create a "Stock Chart".
>>> This is a series of lines with three data points representing the
>>> high/low/close. Perhaps there is a more correct name for this type of
>>> chart,
>>> but it is referred to this in MS Excel. My application is NOT for
>>> tracking stocks, and I will use it for the high/low/average for several
>>> days.

>>
>> Yes. In fact many online charting applications use Perl.
>>
>> [url]http://ipo-australia.com/scgi-bin/beta/graph.cgi?graph=XAO_year_550x350[/url]
>> (This uses plain GD & is not in production yet).
>>
>> gtoomey

>
>

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[Dmoses]

I have also been looking at trying to do something like that. Is this
something that you worked on or just a site you found. I would like to
see an example of the code that created this or figure out how to shade in
the area under the line. I've only been working with GD::Graph for a
couple days so I'm not quite sure if it does all this or not. IT dosent
seem to handle the number of data points i have which to me 50 or so isint
that many.

Thanks