6. Creating Stock Analysis Charts

Overview of Stock Charts

Excel provides four basic types of stock analysis charts: high-low-close, open-high-low-close, volume-high-low-close, and volume-open-high-low-close. These built-in charts are helpful when you need to display a stock trend for use in an executive dashboard.

Unfortunately, like the old charting in legacy versions of Excel, the stock charts are showing signs of age. If you are familiar with the charts in the Wall Street Journal or on http://finance.yahoo.com, you can see that charting technology has definitely left ...

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