Free Candlestick Chart Maker
Charts & GraphsMake a candlestick chart online: paste open, high, low, close and volume rows (a Yahoo Finance CSV works) and get a stock chart with a moving average and callouts. Free PNG.
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How to Use
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Paste your OHLC rows
Open Paste or edit data under Data and paste one row per candle: a date or label, then open, high, low and close, and an optional volume. CSV, tab-separated rows from a spreadsheet and files with or without a header all work, so a Yahoo Finance export pastes in as it is.
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Add a moving average and volume
Switch on the moving average and type its period (10 candles, 20 candles), and the volume strip draws a bar per candle under the chart in the candle’s own colour.
- 3
Call out the candle that matters
Click a candle, or pick it under Callout, and a note box points at it with its open, close and percentage change. Click the note to type your own words.
- 4
Style it
Pick a theme (the dark Trading terminal looks like a broker screen), switch to colour-blind safe blue and orange or choose your own up and down colours, hollow up candles, and a text size. The readout above the chart shows the last price and its change.
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Download
Choose Compact, Report, Slide, Square or Story (1080 × 1920) and download a free PNG at exactly that size, with no watermark. Pro adds vector SVG and HD PNG.
Why Choose GraphMake?
How to Read a Candlestick Chart
Every candle is one period. The body runs between the open and the close, and its colour says which came first: a green body closed above its open, a red body closed below it. The wicks above and below the body mark the highest and lowest prices reached during the period, even if they only lasted a moment.
Read the shapes, not only the colours. A long body with short wicks is a decisive move. A small body with long wicks on both sides means buyers and sellers pushed hard in both directions and the price ended near where it began. A long lower wick under a small body shows that the price fell during the period and then recovered most of the loss before the close.
The change readout above the chart shows the last closing price and how much it moved, measured against the previous close (the usual daily change), across the last candle, or across the whole chart. Pick whichever matches the point you are making.
Candlestick, OHLC or Line Chart?
A line chart joins the closing prices and hides everything that happened in between. It is the clearest way to show a long trend, and the line chart maker is the better choice for years of data or for comparing several stocks on one chart.
An OHLC bar chart carries the same four numbers as a candlestick, drawn as a line with ticks for the open and close. Candlesticks became the standard because the filled body makes up and down periods readable from across a room.
Use a candlestick chart when the range inside each period matters: how volatile a week was, where a day closed relative to its high, or which period broke the pattern. Up to about a hundred candles stay readable on a slide; beyond that, switch to weekly candles or a line chart.
Making a Candlestick Chart People Understand
Most readers of a report or a social post are not traders, so tell them where to look. Put the story in the title, add one callout on the candle that matters, and keep the moving average only if the trend is the point.
Red and green are the convention, but about one man in twelve cannot tell them apart. Switch to the colour-blind safe blue and orange, or use hollow up candles, so direction reads from shape as well as colour. For a phone screen or a Short, choose the Story canvas and a Large or Extra large text size.
What You Can Create
Stock and Crypto Charts
Daily or weekly candles with volume and a moving average for a report, a newsletter, a class or a social post.
Trading Education
Show what a doji, a long wick or a gap looks like, with a callout on the candle you are teaching.
Business Metrics
Weekly ranges for active users, sales or response times, where the wicks show the best and worst day.
Ratings and Scores
A season of a TV show or a team’s results as one candle each, from the first game or episode to the last.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a candlestick chart?
A candlestick chart shows how a price moved over a series of periods. Each candle covers one period, such as a day or a week. Its thick body runs from the opening price to the closing price, and the thin wicks reach up to the highest price and down to the lowest. A candle is green (or hollow) when the price closed higher than it opened and red when it closed lower.
How do I read a candlestick?
Look at the colour first: green means the period closed up, red means it closed down. The body shows how far the price moved from open to close, so a long body is a strong move and a tiny one (a doji) means the price ended about where it started. Long wicks mean the price travelled far during the period but was pushed back before the close.
What data do I need for a candlestick chart?
Four numbers per period: open, high, low and close (OHLC), plus a label such as the date. Volume is optional. Paste them as rows like "Mar 2, 184.20, 186.10, 183.50, 185.70, 41200000". If a high or low does not contain the open and close, the maker stretches the wick to fit and tells you which row it fixed.
Can I paste a Yahoo Finance or Google Sheets export?
Yes. A header row with Date, Open, High, Low, Close and Volume is read by name, so extra columns such as Adj Close are ignored. Rows copied from Excel or Google Sheets arrive tab-separated and work too, with or without a header.
What is the difference between a candlestick chart and an OHLC chart?
They show the same four prices. An OHLC bar chart draws each period as a vertical line with a small tick to the left for the open and to the right for the close; a candlestick fills the space between open and close as a coloured body, which makes up and down periods much easier to see at a glance.
What does the moving average line show?
It is the average closing price of the last N candles, redrawn at every candle, which smooths out the day-to-day noise so the trend is easier to see. Traders often use 20 or 50 periods on daily charts; set any period from 2 to 200.
Can I use a candlestick chart for things that are not stocks?
Yes. Anything with a start, an end, a best and a worst value per period fits: daily active users by week (Monday opens, Sunday closes), temperatures by month, or TV episode ratings with one candle per season, where the premiere opens, the finale closes and the wicks are the best and worst episode. Try the TV episode ratings sample.
Is this candlestick chart maker free?
Yes. Making a candlestick chart and downloading it as a PNG is free, with no signup and no watermark. SVG and high-resolution PNG downloads are part of GraphMake Pro.
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