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specialized family
candlestick
OHLC bars showing open/high/low/close per period.
Standard finance encoding. Each "candle" shows opening price, closing price (body), and the high-low range (wick). Colour signals up vs down.
When to use
Financial time-series where intra-period range matters.
When NOT to use
Audience is non-financial (use line).
Rhetorical roles
- evolve
Variants & related
Required primitives
- has_axis_titles
- has_legend
Optional primitives
_(none)_
Common anti-patterns
- unfamiliar-encoding
Disambiguation rules
- Vertical rectangles with wicks above and below.