Candles, bars or lines: which chart type do you use, and why?

Candlesticks show the open-high-low-close story visually; bars show the same data more plainly; line charts show only closes. Most traders settle on candles, but the choice is worth being deliberate about.

Share:

• your chart type and why
• what you lose by not seeing the other data
• whether you've ever switched types and what changed

The candlestick guide starts with what each candle actually encodes.