Tips:Creating Candlestick Chart in SAS

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Candlestick charts are used often in technical analysis. This type of chart is very popular and widely used by chartists. SAS does not have an inbuilt function to produce these type of charts. However, with some innovative use of Annotate, SAS Institute has provided us with the code at {http://support.sas.com/kb/24/914.html } to plot candlestick chart in SAS.

By manipulating the example, we can then adjust it to read real life data from sources such as Yahoo! and Bloomberg to plot an actual candlestick chart. Below is an example of such a chart.