Exchange prices in the live chart widget

Visualizing trends and intra-day price movements is critical to monitoring and analyzing your markets. The Live Chart widget enables you to view historical and intra-day data for a single exchange price with open/high/low/close prices.

Chart either a line, bar, candle or mountain chart for one price, displaying the data in intervals from 5 minutes up to 1 month with volume data (where available) in the sub- chart at the bottom. 

The Y axis label shows you the current market level in real time.

You can also chart other data; live FX spot rates, precious spot prices and ECB rates. Note that the Live Chart Widget does not contain CME or SHFE daily settlement values, you should use the Price Chart widget for settlement data. 

Searching and adding a symbol to the Live Chart

To add a Live Chart widget click Add widget > Live Chart and search for the price you wish to plot in the chart. To search for the COMEX Copper 3 Months symbol, type COMEX and choose Source: COMEX. This will start to filter the symbols for this exchange. Type Copper and choose type 3M for the 3 months prompt date and find the code for COMEX Copper 3 months. You can only add one symbol at a time into the Live Chart widget.

Edit the periodicity displayed in the chart

To change the periodicity of the chart, click the drop-down menu in the top right of the widget. Each candle represents 5 minutes of data. In this case we can click on the 5 minutes dropdown and change to any of these other periods. 

Amend the type of chart displayed

To change the type of chart which is displayed, click the chart type menu at top right. The options are bar, candle, line and mountain. 

Candle chart – here each candle represents the open, high, low and close of the period. The high is represented by the vertical line, which extends above the top of the body to show the highest price. The low is represented by the lowest point on the vertical line. The body of the candle represents the open and close. If the body is filled in in green, then the price has risen that day so the open would be the lowest line of the box and the close would be top line. Red represents the price having a net decline so the top line is the open and the bottom line would be the close.

Bar chart -this is a similar display to candle charts but does not have a body filled in. The bar represents the period selected and the vertical line represents the high and low of that price. The left-hand horizontal line 
represents to opening price and the right hand represents the closing price.

Line chart - represents the price history for the period selected.

Mountain chart - displays the same as a line chart but shaded to the bottom of the X axis for visual effect.

View price data for each interval

When hovering over a price, the chart shows a display box with details of the price at that interval. 

Resizing the chart

Change the size of the chart by moving the mouse scroller up to see more data, and down to zoom in on less data. 

Click and drag the mouse to move forwards and backwards in time.