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How to create stock chart in Excel?

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For many stock companies or investors, the stock tables in Excel may be not direct enough to analyze the stock quotation. Now I will talk about creating a stock chart in Excel to better show every detail of the stock.

Create stock chart in Excel

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In general, a stock table includes the stock insurance date, the stock volume, stock opening price, closing price, the highest price and the lowest price just like the below screenshot shown.

sample data

In this case, you need to create the Volume-Open-High-Low-Close stock chart.

1. Select the data range, then click Insert > Other Charts > Volume-Open-High-Low-Close stock chart. See screenshot:

click Volume-Open-High-Low-Close stock chart

Tip: In Excel 2013, click Insert > See All Charts arrow, then in the Insert Chart dialog, select Stock > Volume-Open-High-Low-Close stock chart under All Charts tab, and click OK to close this dialog. See screenshot:

enable Volume-Open-High-Low-Close stock chart in Excel 2013

2. Now a stock chart including all stock data is inserted in Excel. See screenshot:

stock chart with stock data is created now

In the default chart layout, the series are overlapped. For better viewing the data, you can format the chart Y axis.

3. Right click at the Y axis, and select Format Axis option from context menu. See screenshot:

click Format Axis from right click menu

4. In the Format Axis dialog, check Fixed option of the Maximum, and type the larger number into the text box until the data in chart do not overlap. See screenshot:

set options in the Format Axis dialog box

Tip: In Excel 2013, reset the Maximum value in the Format Axis pane. See screenshot:

steps to set options in Excel 2013

5. Close dialog. Now you can see the stock chart shown as below:

stock chart is created

Tip: There are four types of stock charts in Excel, you can create a suitable stock chart as you need.

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