Financial Toolbox

Charting Financial Data

The following toolbox financial charting functions plot financial data and produce presentation-quality figures quickly and easily.

bolling	Bollinger band chart
candle	Candlestick chart
pointfig	Point and figure chart
highlow	High, low, open, close chart
movavg	Leading and lagging moving averages chart

These functions work with standard MATLAB functions that draw axes, control appearance, and add labels and titles. For users having additional charting requirements, the Financial Time Series Toolbox provides a more comprehensive set of charting functions.

Here are two plotting examples: a high-low-close chart of sample IBM stock price data, and a Bollinger band chart of the same data. These examples load data from an external file (ibm.dat), then call the functions using subsets of the data. ibm is a six-column matrix where each row is a trading day's data and where columns 2, 3, and 4 contain the high, low, and closing prices, respectively.

Note    The data in ibm.dat is fictional and for illustrative use only.

Formatting Currency

High-Low-Close Chart Example