Line charts are excellent tools for tracking and visualizing a brand’s progress over time. They give a visual representation of growth trends and portray accurate data points that can be ...

Since line charts are good for determining trends, you may want to choose a period that gives you an idea of the bigger pictures and allows you to analyze large-scale patterns.

Right now, the line chart doesn’t display the Emphasis series — the value $1,800,000 — as a vertical bar. It’s a round marker. The blue marker is there, but you can’t see it.

Bar charts can give more detail into a stock's price range than line charts. Each trading day is represented as a bar on the chart with the open, high, low and closing prices.

Figure B Start with a line chart in Excel. Select the first chart offering and click OK. Once you insert the chart in the sheet, click the Chart Elements icon in the top-right corner (Figure C).

You can use many different chart timeframes or periods to plot candlestick charts in your technical analysis system or trading platform. The most common are: 1-minute (M1) 5-minute (M5) 15-minute ...