Price chart
Also called: stock chart, line chart, bar chart
A picture of trading history, with time on the horizontal axis and the prices at which trades happened on the vertical axis.
Line charts join closing prices; bar and candlestick charts also show each period's open, high and low. A chart records what traded, not why, and its appearance depends on the period, scale and chart type chosen.
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