Candlestick Chart for Stock Trading

A C++ program for displaying historical stock data in a candlestick format.

Dependency on SFML, a multimedia library.

Current development branch: include-sfml-view

Keyboard shortcuts (press c to randomize)

Key	Description
c	randomize candle body colors
b	toggle between light/dark mode
+	Zoom in
-	Zoom out
UP	Move up
DOWN	Move down
LEFT	Move left
RIGHT	Move right

How to try it out (Instructions for Linux system):

• clone the repo: Run git clone https://github.com/VivekThazhathattil/candlesticks-SFML or download as zip and extract it.
• change directory: cd candlesticks-SFML/test
• Run the Makefile: make from within the test directory.
• Make sure that you have GNU C++ compiler and SFML libs installed within your system.
• Run the program using ./main

Ideas left to implement (aka TODO):

• Custom kawaii colors + white bg
• user input html color codes for backgrounds, bullish candles and bearish candles
• x-axis markings
• zoomability (scale time period)
• horizontal mouse drag to change the time period (also with left/right arrow keys) dynamic change in axes pending
• detect marubozus, dojis, and other typical single as well as multi-candle patterns.
• draw MACD, get VWAP
• indicate volume
• show help commands upon pressing h
• refactor hardcoded dimensions
• ability to draw custom lines/ curves
• keyboard shortcut to reset all the changed plot behaviours
• convert to renko charts
• identify x coordinate marking format and convert into other compact notations
• specify the csv file as a terminal command
• figure out the title of the graph from the file name. Override if custom name specified as command line argument.
• save user preferences in a local file and load that at startup.
• remove all the pixel scaling for candlesticks and replace it with sf::View functions : which makes it easy to implement zooming and scrolling, an resizing windows.
• implement box zoom functionality
• replace Pos with sfml equivalent to maintain consistency