Candlestick charts using Plotly and Quantmod

By Riddhiman

This post is dedicated to creating candlestick charts using Plotly’s R-API.

For more information on candlestick charts visit www.stockcharts.com.

We’ll also showcase Plotly’s awesome new range selector feature !

plotlyCandleStick = startdate]
  
  # Convert to dataframe
  prices  x[5]){
      mat ",
                    "High: ", round(prices$high,2),"
",
                    "Low: ", round(prices$low,2),"
",
                    "Open: ", round(prices$open,2),"
",
                    "Close: ", round(prices$close,2))
  
  
  # Base plot for High / Low prices
  p  close price
  p End: ", format(max(prices$time), "%b-%Y")),
                     ax = 0, ay = 0, align = "left",
                     xref = "paper", yref = "paper", xanchor = "left", yanchor = "top",
                     font = list(size = 10, color = fontcolor))
              ))
  
  return(p)
}

library(plotly)
library(quantmod)

plotlyCandleStick("TSLA")

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