Drawing special symbols on Candlestick chart

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Drawing special symbols on Candlestick chart

Post by Rangarajan » Wed Jan 26, 2022 4:19 am

I am displaying a Candle series in a Chart window. Based on some algorithm, I would like to display some special symbol (say, up triangle, down triangle, arrow, etc.) on some elements of the series. The symbol may have to be displayed either above the candlestick or below it. How can I do this? Obviously, because the symbol is logically "tied" to certain candlesticks, they should not vanish when I zoom or scroll the chart.

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Re: Drawing special symbols on Candlestick chart

Post by Yeray » Wed Jan 26, 2022 11:15 am

Hello Rangarajan,

You could use a TPointSeries and use OnGetPointerStyle to modify its pointers as you wish. Ie:

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procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
begin
  //...
  with TPointSeries(Chart1.AddSeries(TPointSeries)) do
  begin
    Pointer.Size:=6;

    AddXY(candleSeries.XValue[2], candleSeries.HighValues[2]);
    AddXY(candleSeries.XValue[6], candleSeries.LowValues[6]);

    OnGetPointerStyle:=SeriesGetPointerStyle;
  end;
end;

function TForm1.SeriesGetPointerStyle(Sender: TChartSeries;
  ValueIndex: Integer): TSeriesPointerStyle;
begin
  case ValueIndex of
    0: Result:=psTriangle;
    1: Result:=psDownTriangle;
  end;
end;
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Re: Drawing special symbols on Candlestick chart

Post by Rangarajan » Wed Jan 26, 2022 12:33 pm

Looks good, thanks. Let me try this.

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Re: Drawing special symbols on Candlestick chart

Post by Rangarajan » Thu Feb 03, 2022 11:50 am

Thanks again. It works as expected.

1) How would I handle the case where I need to draw vertical lines (in different colours) on candlestick chart, instead of symbols? The vertical lines need to span the entire height of the chart window without any specific Y values.
2) Is it possible to display arbitrary information when moving the mouse over each candlestick element? Or when clicking on a specific element?

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Re: Drawing special symbols on Candlestick chart

Post by Yeray » Thu Feb 03, 2022 12:02 pm

Hello Rangarajan,
Rangarajan wrote:
Thu Feb 03, 2022 11:50 am
1) How would I handle the case where I need to draw vertical lines (in different colours) on candlestick chart, instead of symbols? The vertical lines need to span the entire height of the chart window without any specific Y values.
This sounds like the TColorLineTool. Take a look at the ColorLine example in the Features Demo shipped with the installation.
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Rangarajan wrote:
Thu Feb 03, 2022 11:50 am
2) Is it possible to display arbitrary information when moving the mouse over each candlestick element? Or when clicking on a specific element?
Have you seen the MarksTipTool?
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Re: Drawing special symbols on Candlestick chart

Post by Rangarajan » Thu Feb 03, 2022 2:03 pm

Super! Thanks.

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