Learn how to read a stock chart to make smarter, more calculated, and confident trading and investing decisions.

Note how the total adds up to 100%. Bar charts and line graphs can be combined. Climate graphs are an example of this. The x-axis shows the months of the year and there are two y-axes to show ...

The takeaway: every bar graph needs a zero on its scale. If you see one without a zero, be careful. In a future post I'll discuss whether line graphs and other graphs also need a zero on their scales.

In the first two experiments, participants were each given a single graph, either a bar chart, line graph or point graph, populated with 50 datapoints representing weekly sales made by a ...

Line charts are popular with investors and traders because closing prices are a common snapshot of a security's activity. Other popular styles of charts include bar charts, candlestick charts ...

The classic horizontal bar chart is something we’re all familiar with. For many of us, it was the first ‘chart’ we learnt in school, usually alongside Venn diagrams and line graphs.

The most useful selection is a bar chart, because it allows you to format the second series as a line. Superimposing two types of charts makes identifying the two data scales easier. How to Format ...

If you need a line chart, Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 can help you plot your line graph on any of the slides that make up your presentation. You can select the type of line graph and then insert the ...