Highstock is a JavaScript library based on Highcharts that is specifically designed for creating financial charts. It offers a wide range of features tailored to the needs of traders, analysts, and financial professionals.
Some key features of Highstock include:
- Financial Chart Types: Highstock includes specialized chart types for financial data, such as candlestick, OHLC (open, high, low, close), and line charts with navigator, range selector, and date picker.
- Data Grouping: Highstock can automatically group and aggregate large datasets to improve performance when displaying historical data.
- Annotations: Highstock allows you to add annotations to your charts, such as trendlines, support and resistance lines, and custom shapes, to highlight important events or trends in your data.
- Indicators and Overlays: Highstock includes a wide range of technical indicators and overlays, such as moving averages, Bollinger Bands, and volume overlays, to help analyze financial data.
- Dynamic Updates: Highstock supports dynamic updates to charts, allowing you to add new data points or update existing ones in real-time without reloading the entire chart.
- Exporting: Highstock supports exporting charts to various formats, such as PNG, JPEG, PDF, and SVG.
Highstock is a powerful tool for creating interactive and visually appealing financial charts and is widely used in the financial industry for analyzing and visualizing market data