Learn how to read a stock chart to make smarter, more calculated, and confident trading and investing decisions.

The classic horizontal bar chart is something we’re all familiar with. For many of us, it was the first ‘chart’ we learnt in school, usually alongside Venn diagrams and line graphs.

The same logic should follow in that the largest value should start in the upper left corner, with other values following a descending order, clockwise, around the chart. Bar graphs make it easy to ...

In fact, I think the floating bar option is practically hidden. Once you find it, the placement makes sense: You create a line chart and then add the Up/Down Bars element. SEE: Software ...

A reader need go no further than page two of Leland Wilkinson’s The Grammar of Graphics before reading, “We will also come to realize why a histogram is not a bar chart and why many other ...

35 We could show this data in a bar chart, but it would have a lot of bars! We can group them together so that we have fewer categories. When choosing intervals for the data sets make sure that ...