Line chart
A line chart is the simplest way to display a 's price history, connecting each period's closing price to the next with a single continuous line. Unlike a or a , it ignores the opening, high, and low prices entirely and shows only where the ended each period.
Because it strips out everything except the closing price, a line chart produces a clean, uncluttered view of the overall trend, which makes it useful for quickly comparing the long-term direction of several or indexes on the same chart, or for a beginner getting a first look at how a has performed over time. The simplicity comes at the cost of detail, a line chart cannot show intraday , how far a swung during a session before settling at its closing price, information that and do capture.
For this reason, line charts are commonly used for a quick overview or for comparing multiple securities at once, such as on a 's summary page or in a fund's performance history, while more detailed of a single 's , spotting chart patterns, candlestick signals, and short-term , is almost always done on a candlestick or instead.