Learning Highcharts 4

Stock growth chart example

Our next example (for the online demo, see http://joekuan.org/Learning_Highcharts/Chapter_11/chart2.html) is to demonstrate the following events:

• chart.events: addSeries
• plotOptions.series.events: click, checkboxClick, and legendItemClick
• plotOptions.series.point.events: update and remove

Suppose that we want to draft a long-term investment portfolio based on past stock growth performance as a reference. The demo contains a chart started with two series, Portfolio and Average growth, and a form to input stock symbols. Basically, we enter a stock symbol in this demo, and then a line series of stock growth is inserted into the chart.

So we can plot multiple stock yield trends and tweak their proportion in our portfolio to observe ...