A candlestick series is another type of financial series, as OHLC/HLC line series and
OHLC/HLC bar series. It is also intendend to be used in the stock market, displaying prices
progression. It is called candlestick for its similarity with a candle, with strings(wicks)
coming out from both extremities of the candle's body. The top and bottom of the
candlestick's body correspond to the 'open' and 'close' values, in a bearish condition, or
vice versa, in a bullish condition. Bearish and bullish conditions are distinguished by
candlesticks painted in different colors. The top of the upper line coming out from the top
of the candlestick's body corresponds to the 'high' value and the bottom of the lower line
corresponds to the 'low' value.
Any OHLC series type is 'ohlc'. To specify a candlestick series the parameter
seriex_type must be passed values 4 or 5, to identify rectangular and rounded
candlesticks, respectively.
The number of values passed to the seriex_values parameter must always be a multiple
of 4. Every sequential set of 4 values is assigned to one data point, corresponding to the
open, high, low and close values.
For a complete list of candlestick series parameters, click here.
The properties of candlestick series are a subset of this list.
For a complete list of parameters shared by series displayed by GraphApplet.class, click
here.