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Christopher Moyer 414d536186 Docs: refactors config panels and visualizations, corrects relrefs (#55940)
* refactors config panels and visualizations, corrects relrefs

* adds an alias

* Remove some old content

* moves visualizations topic to the root

* moves out panels and visualization topics to the root

* adds move and resize panel to add/organize panel; creates a create dashboard topic under build dashboards; adjusts context of add a panel to be from within an existing dashboard

* updates aliases

* creates search at root, moves dashboard preview to search, creates standalone search dashboard topic

* moves Set dashboard time range to use-dashboards, creates modify dashboard settings and adds moves Modify dashboard time settings to that topic

* moves existing query-options topic from working with panels to configure-panel-visualizations, moves panel time overrides and timeshift content to query options

* Moving things to better category, fixing links, improving ordering

* Move panel inspector to main panel topic

* completes partial fix of relrefs

* relref fixes con't

* restructures remaining panels topics

* more relref fixes

* Minor fix

* Minor tweak

* finishes fixing relrefs

Co-authored-by: Torkel Ödegaard <torkel@grafana.com>
Co-authored-by: Jack Baldry <jack.baldry@grafana.com>
2022-10-11 15:31:20 -05:00

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aliases:
- /docs/grafana/latest/features/panels/candlestick/
- /docs/grafana/latest/panels/visualizations/candlestick/
- /docs/grafana/latest/visualizations/candlestick/
- /docs/grafana/latest/panels-visualizations/visualizations/candlestick/
description: Candlestick visualization documentation
keywords:
- grafana
- Candlestick
- OHLC
- panel
- documentation
title: Candlestick
weight: 600
---
# Candlestick
The Candlestick panel allows you to visualize data that includes a number of consistent dimensions focused on price movement. The Candlestick panel includes an Open-High-Low-Close (OHLC) mode, as well as support for additional dimensions based on time series data.
{{< figure src="/static/img/docs/candlestick-panel/candlestick-panel-8-3.png" max-width="1200px" caption="Candlestick panel" >}}
The Candlestick panel builds upon the foundation of the [time series]({{< relref "time-series/" >}}) panel and includes many common configuration settings.
## Mode
The mode options allow you to toggle which dimensions are used for the visualization.
- **Candles** limits the panel dimensions to the open, high, low, and close dimensions used by candlestick visualizations.
- **Volume** limits the panel dimension to the volume dimension.
- **Both** is the default behavior for the candlestick panel. It includes both candlestick and volume visualizations.
## Candle style
- **Candles** is the default display style and creates candle-style visualizations between the open and close dimensions.
- **OHLC Bars** displays the four core dimensions open, high, low, and close values.
## Color strategy
- **Since Open** is the default behavior. This mode will utilize the _Up_ color (below) if the intra-period price movement is positive. In other words, if the value on close is greater or equal to the value on open, the _Up_ color is used.
- **Since Prior Close** is an alternative display method based where the color of the candle is based on the inter-period price movement or change in value. In other words, if the value on open is greater than the previous value on close, the _Up_ color is used. If the value on open is lower than the previous value on close, the _Down_ color is used. _This option also triggers the hollow candlestick visualization mode_. Hollow candlesticks indicate that the intra-period movement is positive (value is higher on close than on open), filled candlesticks indicate the intra-period change is negative (value is lower on close than on open). To learn more, see the [explanation of the differences](https://thetradingbible.com/how-to-read-hollow-candlesticks).
## Up & Down Colors
The **Up color** and **Down color** options select which colors are used when the price movement is up or down. Please note that the _Color strategy_ above will determine if intra-period or inter-period price movement is used to select the candle or OHLC bar color.
## Open, High, Low, Close
The candlestick panel will attempt to map fields to the appropriate dimension. The **Open**, **High**, **Low**, and **Close** options allow you to map your data to these dimensions if the panel is unable to do so.
- **Open** corresponds to the starting value of the given period.
- **High** corresponds to the highest value of the given period.
- **Low** corresponds to the lowest value of the given period.
- **Close** corresponds to the final (end) value of the given period.
- **Volume** corresponds to the sample count in the given period. (e.g. number of trades)
## Additional fields
The candlestick panel is based on the time series panel. It can visualization additional data dimensions beyond open, high, low, close, and volume The **Include** and **Ignore** options allow the panel to visualize other included data such as simple moving averages, Bollinger bands and more, using the same styles and configurations available in the [time series]({{< relref "time-series/" >}}) panel.