What are Stock Charts?

A stocks price chart is a representation of a sequence of stock prices plotted on a graph as a stock chart representation of stock price movements.

This stocks price movement is then drawn over a period of time and this stock chart price moves drawn on the stock chart can be used to analyze the movement of stock price so as to determine if the stock trend is down or up.

Stocks Price Charts

A Stock Trading stocks price chart provides a representation of exchange rates (drawn on the y-axis) against time (drawn on the x-axis) for stock.

The movement of stock prices is drawn on these stocks price charts. The chart can be drawn as candlestick stock price charts like the one shown below or as line stock price charts or bar stock price charts.

What's Stock Trading Price Chart? - What's Stocks Trading Price Trading Chart? - What are Stock Charts

Technical analysis of stock charts is then applied to these charts by using stock trading tools provided by the stock trading software. For example stock trading MT4 platform provided stock indicators & stock line studies that can be used to analyze these stock charts.

Stock charts can also be drawn using different chart time frames.

The different chart time frames are used by different types of stocks traders.

For example:

• Stock Trading scalper use the 1 minute stocks chart timeframe and the 5 minute stocks chart timeframes
• Stock Trading day traders use the 15 minute stocks chart timeframe and the 1 hour stocks chart timeframes
• Stock Trading swing traders use the 4 hour stocks chart timeframe and the daily stocks chart timeframes

Chart Time Frames on MT4 Software

Periodicity just means chart timeframes, in MT4 stock trading platform this charts time frames toolbar is used to select which chart time-frames to trade with.

Stock Trading Price Chart Timeframes - What are Stock Trading Price Charts?

The stocks price charts - chart timeframes listed on the MetaTrader 4 software are:

1. 1 Minute - M1
2. 5 Min - M5
3. 15 Minutes - M15
4. 30 Minutes - M30
5. 1 Hour - H1
6. 4 Hours - H4
7. Daily - D1
8. Weekly - W1
9. Monthly - MN

Type of Stocks Trading Price Charts

The three common types of stocks price charts used in stock trading are:

• Candlestick Stock Trading Price Charts
• Line Stock Trading Price Charts
• Bar Stock Trading Price Charts

These 3 types of stocks price charts are covered in the topic Stock Chart Types.