Chart Type

Chart Types — The Many Faces of Price

Price data can be visualized and analyzed in many different forms —
each offering a unique perspective on market behavior.

The most widely used among them is the Candlestick Chart —
the trader’s workhorse for visualizing Open, High, Low, and Close (OHLC) data.

Other popular chart types include:

  • Line Charts
  • Heiken-Ashi
  • Renko
  • Point & Figure (P&F)
  • Kagi

Noiseless Charts — When Time Takes a Back Seat

Charts like Renko, Point & Figure, and Kagi are often called Noiseless Charts.
Why? Because they don’t use time as the primary axis of analysis.
They do record time internally, but price movement — not the clock — determines how these charts evolve.

In contrast, Candlestick, Line, and Heiken-Ashi charts are time-based —
each bar or point corresponds to a specific time interval (a Time Frame).

Tip "Quick Insight"

- **Time-based charts** (Candlestick, Line, Heiken-Ashi) show price vs time.  
- **Noiseless charts** (Renko, P&F, Kagi) show price vs price movement.

Every Chart Type Has Its Purpose

Each charting style comes with its own strengths and quirks:

  • Candlestick — captures rich price action detail, ideal for most strategies.
  • Heiken-Ashi — smooths volatility, highlighting trends.
  • Renko — filters out market noise to emphasize direction.
  • P&F — reveals long-term breakouts and reversals without time clutter.
  • Kagi — tracks trend shifts based on price reversals.

How you use them depends on what you’re trying to see —
short-term volatility, long-term trends, or pure directional bias.

Chart Support in Vyapari

Vyapari currently supports the following chart types out of the box:

  • ✅ Candlestick Charts
  • ✅ Renko Charts

Heiken-Ashi is partially supported as a set of Indicators that can be applied to Candlestick Charts.
Full native Heiken-Ashi support will arrive in the next release of Vyapari.

Point & Figure and Kagi chart types are also planned for upcoming releases.

Note "Roadmap"

Vyapari’s charting engine is built to be modular.  
New chart types, rendering engines, and analytical overlays can be introduced seamlessly in future versions.