ChartDirector 7.0 (Java Edition)

Finance Chart (1)




This example demonstrate creating a full-featured finance chart, with HLOC, moving averages, Bollinger band, volume bars, RSI and Momentum indicators.

This example employs the FinanceChart library add-on to allow complex financial charts to be composed easily. In this example, the key steps are:

For simplicity and to allow this example to run without connecting to a real database, a RanTable object is used to simulate the data. RanTable is a ChartDirector utility class used for creating tables with random numbers.

Source Code Listing

[JSP Version] jspdemo/finance.jsp
<%@page import="ChartDirector.*, java.util.*" %> <% // Create a finance chart demo containing 100 days of data int noOfDays = 100; // To compute moving averages starting from the first day, we need to get extra data points before // the first day int extraDays = 30; // In this exammple, we use a random number generator utility to simulate the data. We set up the // random table to create 6 cols x (noOfDays + extraDays) rows, using 9 as the seed. RanTable rantable = new RanTable(9, 6, noOfDays + extraDays); // Set the 1st col to be the timeStamp, starting from Sep 4, 2002, with each row representing one // day, and counting week days only (jump over Sat and Sun) rantable.setDateCol(0, new GregorianCalendar(2002, 8, 4).getTime(), 86400, true); // Set the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th columns to be high, low, open and close data. The open value starts // from 100, and the daily change is random from -5 to 5. rantable.setHLOCCols(1, 100, -5, 5); // Set the 6th column as the vol data from 5 to 25 million rantable.setCol(5, 50000000, 250000000); // Now we read the data from the table into arrays double[] timeStamps = rantable.getCol(0); double[] highData = rantable.getCol(1); double[] lowData = rantable.getCol(2); double[] openData = rantable.getCol(3); double[] closeData = rantable.getCol(4); double[] volData = rantable.getCol(5); // Create a FinanceChart object of width 640 pixels FinanceChart c = new FinanceChart(640); // Add a title to the chart c.addTitle("Finance Chart Demonstration"); // Set the data into the finance chart object c.setData(timeStamps, highData, lowData, openData, closeData, volData, extraDays); // Add the main chart with 240 pixels in height c.addMainChart(240); // Add a 5 period simple moving average to the main chart, using brown color c.addSimpleMovingAvg(5, 0x663300); // Add a 20 period simple moving average to the main chart, using purple color c.addSimpleMovingAvg(20, 0x9900ff); // Add HLOC symbols to the main chart, using green/red for up/down days c.addHLOC(0x008000, 0xcc0000); // Add 20 days bollinger band to the main chart, using light blue (9999ff) as the border and // semi-transparent blue (c06666ff) as the fill color c.addBollingerBand(20, 2, 0x9999ff, 0xc06666ff); // Add a 75 pixels volume bars sub-chart to the bottom of the main chart, using green/red/grey for // up/down/flat days c.addVolBars(75, 0x99ff99, 0xff9999, 0x808080); // Append a 14-days RSI indicator chart (75 pixels high) after the main chart. The main RSI line is // purple (800080). Set threshold region to +/- 20 (that is, RSI = 50 +/- 25). The upper/lower // threshold regions will be filled with red (ff0000)/blue (0000ff). c.addRSI(75, 14, 0x800080, 20, 0xff0000, 0x0000ff); // Append a 12-days momentum indicator chart (75 pixels high) using blue (0000ff) color. c.addMomentum(75, 12, 0x0000ff); // Output the chart WebChartViewer viewer = new WebChartViewer(request, "chart1"); viewer.setChart(c, Chart.SVG); %> <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Finance Chart (1)</title> <!-- Include ChartDirector Javascript Library to support chart interactions --> <script type="text/javascript" src="cdjcv.js"></script> </head> <body style="margin:5px 0px 0px 5px"> <div style="font:bold 18pt verdana;"> Finance Chart (1) </div> <hr style="border:solid 1px #000080; background:#000080" /> <div style="font:10pt verdana; margin-bottom:1.5em"> <a href="viewsource.jsp?file=<%=request.getServletPath()%>">View Source Code</a> </div> <!-- ****** Here is the chart image ****** --> <%= viewer.renderHTML(response) %> </body> </html>