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

Bar charts can give more detail into a stock's price range than line charts. Each trading day is represented as a bar on the chart with the open, high, low and closing prices.

Understanding how to read a candlestick chart can be a real asset during your investment journey. With that in mind, we'll break down the basics for you here.

Learn how to read stock charts with this beginner-friendly guide. Understand trends, support and resistance levels, volumes and essential chart types for smarter investing.

This KS2 Maths article explains how to read and interpret bar charts.

You can make a bar graph in Excel by first selecting the range you want to depict, and then using the dropdown menu to select the desired chart.

The chart below, for example, is not particularly complicated but it, like most charts, is trying to convey some numerical information visually. Like an emoji for math.