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RenkoChart[{{date1,p1},{date2,p2},}]

makes a Renko chart with prices pi at date datei.

RenkoChart[{"name",daterange}]

makes a Renko chart of closing prices for the financial entity "name" over the date range daterange.

RenkoChart[{},s]

makes a Renko chart with brick height of fraction s of the average price.

Details and Options

Examples

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Basic Examples  (2)Summary of the most common use cases

Chart the prices from a list of values:

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Use three months of prices from FinancialData entities:

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Specify a date range:

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Scope  (20)Survey of the scope of standard use cases

Data and Wrappers  (12)

Automatically get quarterly data for a financial entity:

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Get data for a specific date range:

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Get data from FinancialData:

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Brick size by default is a fraction of the price range:

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Specify brick sizes as a fraction of the price range:

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Use absolute brick sizes:

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Use wrappers on individual data:

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Use wrappers on entire datasets:

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Wrappers can be nested:

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Override the default tooltips:

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Use PopupWindow to provide additional drilldown information:

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Button can be used to trigger any action:

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Styling and Appearance  (5)

Specify styles for up and down trends:

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Use preset styles:

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ChartBaseStyle can be used to set a style for all chart elements:

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Style can be used to override styles:

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Use built-in programmatically generated bars:

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Labeling  (3)

Use Labeled to add a label to a bar:

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Use symbolic positions for label placement:

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Label a list of date events:

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Use Placed to control the positioning of labels, using the same positions as for Labeled:

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Options  (45)Common values & functionality for each option

AspectRatio  (1)

AspectRatio controls the ratio of the height to width:

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AspectRatio 1 will make width equal to height:

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Axes  (2)

Use the default axes:

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Turn off the axes:

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AxesOrigin  (3)

Axes origin is on the left by default:

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Place the axis at the end of February:

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Use named positions for the axis:

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ChartBaseStyle  (5)

Use ChartBaseStyle to apply overall styles for the bricks:

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Add gray edges to the bricks:

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ChartBaseStyle combines with TrendStyle:

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TrendStyle may override the settings for ChartBaseStyle:

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Style overrides the settings for ChartBaseStyle:

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ChartElementFunction  (4)

Get a list of built-in settings for ChartElementFunction:

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These examples of ChartElementFunction show the global scale:

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Write a custom ChartElementFunction:

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ChartElements  (6)

Use any Graphics object for the bricks:

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Use different markers for up and down trends:

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Graphical elements pick up the style from TrendStyle:

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Graphics3D:

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Use images for the bars:

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Chart elements are sized to fill the bricks:

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Use explicit sizes for width and height:

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EventLabels  (3)

Label a date event:

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Use Placed to control label placement:

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Use Placed to control label appearance:

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GridLines  (4)

Grid lines are used by default:

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Turn off date grid lines:

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Turn off price grid lines:

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Place grid lines at month or year boundaries:

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Use dotted grid lines for months and red grid lines for years:

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GridLinesStyle  (3)

By default, GridLinesStyle uses dotted grid lines with emphasized year grid lines:

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Style grid lines:

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GridLines overrides GridLinesStyle:

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PerformanceGoal  (3)

Generate a RenkoChart with interactive highlighting:

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Emphasize performance by disabling interactive behaviors:

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Typically, less memory is required for non-interactive charts:

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PlotRange  (3)

RenkoChart automatically draws all price dates:

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Limit to a specific date range:

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PlotRange only includes dates for which there is data:

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ScalingFunction  (2)

Prices are normally shown on a linear scale:

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Show prices on a logarithmic scale:

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TrendStyle  (6)

TrendStyle uses green for up trends and red for down trends by default:

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Use black for up trends and red for down trends:

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Use named styles:

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TrendStyle combines with ChartBaseStyle:

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With TrendStyle set to None, the base style is used for up trends and empty bars for down trends:

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TrendStyle->style uses style for up trends and empty bars for down trends:

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Properties & Relations  (7)Properties of the function, and connections to other functions

Larger brick sizes filter out more noise:

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RenkoChart only shows time periods with significant changes in price:

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Use CandlestickChart to visualize the financial data:

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Use TradingChart to visualize and analyze financial data:

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Use InteractiveTradingChart to visualize and interactively analyze financial data:

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Use PointFigureChart, LineBreakChart, and KagiChart to analyze the relation of financial prices and time:

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Use DateListPlot to visualize financial data:

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Wolfram Research (2010), RenkoChart, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RenkoChart.html (updated 2014).
Wolfram Research (2010), RenkoChart, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RenkoChart.html (updated 2014).

Text

Wolfram Research (2010), RenkoChart, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RenkoChart.html (updated 2014).

Wolfram Research (2010), RenkoChart, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RenkoChart.html (updated 2014).

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2010. "RenkoChart." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2014. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RenkoChart.html.

Wolfram Language. 2010. "RenkoChart." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2014. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RenkoChart.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2010). RenkoChart. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RenkoChart.html

Wolfram Language. (2010). RenkoChart. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RenkoChart.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2024_renkochart, author="Wolfram Research", title="{RenkoChart}", year="2014", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RenkoChart.html}", note=[Accessed: 07-January-2025 ]}

@misc{reference.wolfram_2024_renkochart, author="Wolfram Research", title="{RenkoChart}", year="2014", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RenkoChart.html}", note=[Accessed: 07-January-2025 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2024_renkochart, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={RenkoChart}, year={2014}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RenkoChart.html}, note=[Accessed: 07-January-2025 ]}

@online{reference.wolfram_2024_renkochart, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={RenkoChart}, year={2014}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/RenkoChart.html}, note=[Accessed: 07-January-2025 ]}