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Investment Entry & Exit Points Line Graph

Thread began 8/20/2010 12:49 pm by jade.burnside372067 | Last modified 8/23/2010 12:01 pm by Jason Byrnes | 2865 views | 3 replies |

jade.burnside372067

Investment Entry & Exit Points Line Graph

Hi there,

BACKGROUND:

I'm trying to make a line graph that will have approximately 100 data points.

The YVALUE is the price of a stock and the XVALUE is the date for that price.

The datapoints are for purchase of the stock (entry) and sale of the stock (exit).

I would like to visually distinguish somehow between entry and exit datapoints.

PROBLEM:

When creating additional datasets to mark the datapoints with different colors (blue for entry and red for exit), each dataset also includes a line between the datapoints (each exit is linked to the next exit with a red line).

This means I end up with two different line graphs rather than a single line graph with two differently colored markers.

QUESTION:

Is there a method to assign alternating colors to each record in my WHILE loop instead of using two while loops like I'm doing?

OR

Is there a method to suppress the lines connecting the datapoints but still leave the datapoints?

BONUS SUPPLEMENTARY QUESTION:

Once I've got this working properly, I'd ideally like to replace the dot markers with up or down arrows. Is there a method to use images or alternate shapes for data markers?

Thanks in advance.

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

where you are trying to chart two separate things: entry and exit, you will need to use two combined charts (using 2 while loops).

the line chart does not offer an option to remove the line connecting each point together, this is a limitation of the chart type.

One thing that may help is to use two different chart types,

Create the entry chart as a bar chart and the exit chart as a line chart, see the "Creating combined charts with the XML Editor" tutorial in the solution recipe section of the Dynamic Web Charts support page:
dynamic-web-charts/



The dot markers cannot use an external image to change them, they are fixed in the flash object.

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Jade but not jaded

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the response.

I've managed to do a combination bar & line chart as you suggested and it works fairly well. Hopefully the client will be satisfied with it.

Now I have another question which I've been wondering about for a while.

QUESTION: Is it possible to force the Y axis labels to display a particular value?

For example, if I've got values ranging from -50 to +50, can I force the graph to always show zero? Right now I've got graphs like that and depending on the particular number of datapoints and the particular values of those datapoints, some of them show zero and some of them don't.

For consistency of representation I'd like to be able to ALWAYS show zero.

Hoping for a positive response to this one :-)

Cheers,
Jade

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

in design view, click on the chart placeholder.

In the property inspector, click the Edit In XML Editor option.

In the xml file, you can add a min and max property to the yaxis tag:

for example:
<yaxis color="#767a7f" gridcolor="#888d93" min="-20" max="200">

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