Financial Indicators

Updated on Mar 26, 2026

Financial Indicators are a collection of DataPoints (calculated with different algorithms using the series data) and visualized using Line Shape. They can be separated into two groups.

Trend Line

Recommended for visualizing over the current series:

• AdaptiveMovingAverageKaufmanIndicator
• BollingerBandsIndicator
• ExponentialMovingAverageIndicator
• ModifiedExponentialMovingAverageIndicator
• ModifiedMovingAverageIndicator
• MovingAverageIndicator
• WeightedMovingAverageIndicator

Financial Indicator

Recommended for visualizing in a separate Chart:

• AverageTrueRangeIndicator
• CommodityChannelIndexIndicator
• MacdIndicator
• MacdhIndicator
• MomentumIndicator
• OscillatorIndicator
• RaviIndicator
• RateOfChangeIndicator
• RelativeMomentumIndexIndicator
• RelativeStrengthIndexIndicator
• StochasticFastIndicator
• StochasticSlowIndicator
• TrixIndicator
• TrueRangeIndicator
• UltimateOscillatorIndicator

Example

The following examples show how to define one Ohlc Series using one Trend Line(over the series) and one Financial Indicator(on the right).

Example 1: Setting up the Series and Indicators

XAML

<Grid xmlns:telerikChart="using:Telerik.UI.Xaml.Controls.Chart"
	  xmlns:telerikCharting="using:Telerik.Charting">
	<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
		<ColumnDefinition />
		<ColumnDefinition />
	</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
	<telerikChart:RadCartesianChart x:Name="OhlcChart" PaletteName="DefaultLightSelected" >
		<telerikChart:RadCartesianChart.Indicators>

			<telerikChart:BollingerBandsIndicator ItemsSource="{Binding}" Period="2" StandardDeviations="2" Stroke="White" StrokeThickness="2" LowerBandStroke="Red">
				<telerikChart:BollingerBandsIndicator.ValueBinding>
					<telerikChart:PropertyNameDataPointBinding PropertyName="Close"/>
				</telerikChart:BollingerBandsIndicator.ValueBinding>
				<telerikChart:BollingerBandsIndicator.CategoryBinding>
					<telerikChart:PropertyNameDataPointBinding PropertyName="Date"/>
				</telerikChart:BollingerBandsIndicator.CategoryBinding>
			</telerikChart:BollingerBandsIndicator>

		</telerikChart:RadCartesianChart.Indicators>
		<telerikChart:RadCartesianChart.VerticalAxis>
			<telerikChart:LinearAxis/>
		</telerikChart:RadCartesianChart.VerticalAxis>
		<telerikChart:RadCartesianChart.HorizontalAxis>
			<telerikChart:DateTimeCategoricalAxis LabelFormat="{}{0,0:dd/MM}"/>
		</telerikChart:RadCartesianChart.HorizontalAxis>
		<telerikChart:RadCartesianChart.Series>
			<telerikChart:CandlestickSeries ItemsSource="{Binding}">
				<telerikChart:CandlestickSeries.CategoryBinding>
					<telerikChart:PropertyNameDataPointBinding PropertyName="Date"/>
				</telerikChart:CandlestickSeries.CategoryBinding>
				<telerikChart:CandlestickSeries.HighBinding>
					<telerikChart:PropertyNameDataPointBinding PropertyName="High"/>
				</telerikChart:CandlestickSeries.HighBinding>
				<telerikChart:CandlestickSeries.LowBinding>
					<telerikChart:PropertyNameDataPointBinding PropertyName="Low"/>
				</telerikChart:CandlestickSeries.LowBinding>
				<telerikChart:CandlestickSeries.OpenBinding>
					<telerikChart:PropertyNameDataPointBinding PropertyName="Open"/>
				</telerikChart:CandlestickSeries.OpenBinding>
				<telerikChart:CandlestickSeries.CloseBinding>
					<telerikChart:PropertyNameDataPointBinding PropertyName="Close"/>
				</telerikChart:CandlestickSeries.CloseBinding>
			</telerikChart:CandlestickSeries>
		</telerikChart:RadCartesianChart.Series>
	</telerikChart:RadCartesianChart>
	<telerikChart:RadCartesianChart x:Name="secondChart" Grid.Column="1">
		<telerikChart:RadCartesianChart.VerticalAxis>
			<telerikChart:LinearAxis/>
		</telerikChart:RadCartesianChart.VerticalAxis>
		<telerikChart:RadCartesianChart.HorizontalAxis>
			<telerikChart:DateTimeCategoricalAxis LabelFormat="{}{0,0:dd/MM}"/>
		</telerikChart:RadCartesianChart.HorizontalAxis>
		<telerikChart:RadCartesianChart.Indicators>
			<telerikChart:MacdhIndicator ItemsSource="{Binding}" ShortPeriod="2" SignalPeriod="4" LongPeriod="10">
				<telerikChart:MacdhIndicator.PointTemplate>
					<DataTemplate>
						<Rectangle Fill="#B45121" Stroke="#80D6F4"/>
					</DataTemplate>
				</telerikChart:MacdhIndicator.PointTemplate>
				<telerikChart:MacdhIndicator.ValueBinding>
					<telerikChart:PropertyNameDataPointBinding PropertyName="Close"/>
				</telerikChart:MacdhIndicator.ValueBinding>
				<telerikChart:MacdhIndicator.CategoryBinding>
					<telerikChart:PropertyNameDataPointBinding PropertyName="Date"/>
				</telerikChart:MacdhIndicator.CategoryBinding>
			</telerikChart:MacdhIndicator>
		</telerikChart:RadCartesianChart.Indicators>
	</telerikChart:RadCartesianChart>
</Grid>

Example 2: Defining the model

C#

public class FinancialData
{
	public double High { get; set; }
	public double Low { get; set; }
	public double Open { get; set; }
	public double Close { get; set; }
	public DateTime Date { get; set; }
}

Example 3: Populating with data

C#

public MainPage()
{
	this.InitializeComponent();
	List<FinancialData> SampleData = new List<FinancialData>();

	SampleData.Add(new FinancialData() { High = 31.1, Open = 30.33, Low = 30.19, Close = 30.66, Date = new DateTime(2010, 1, 4) });
	SampleData.Add(new FinancialData() { High = 31.24, Open = 30.62, Low = 29.91, Close = 30.86, Date = new DateTime(2010, 1, 11) });
	SampleData.Add(new FinancialData() { High = 31.24, Open = 30.75, Low = 28.84, Close = 28.96, Date = new DateTime(2010, 1, 19) });
	SampleData.Add(new FinancialData() { High = 29.92, Open = 29.24, Low = 27.66, Close = 28.18, Date = new DateTime(2010, 1, 25) });
	SampleData.Add(new FinancialData() { High = 28.79, Open = 28.39, Low = 27.57, Close = 28.02, Date = new DateTime(2010, 2, 1) });

	SampleData.Add(new FinancialData() { High = 28.4, Open = 28.01, Low = 27.57, Close = 27.93, Date = new DateTime(2010, 2, 8) });
	SampleData.Add(new FinancialData() { High = 29.03, Open = 28.13, Low = 28.02, Close = 28.77, Date = new DateTime(2010, 2, 16) });
	SampleData.Add(new FinancialData() { High = 28.94, Open = 28.84, Low = 28.02, Close = 28.67, Date = new DateTime(2010, 2, 22) });
	SampleData.Add(new FinancialData() { High = 29.3, Open = 28.77, Low = 28.24, Close = 28.59, Date = new DateTime(2010, 3, 1) });
	SampleData.Add(new FinancialData() { High = 29.38, Open = 28.52, Low = 28.5, Close = 29.27, Date = new DateTime(2010, 3, 8) });
	this.OhlcChart.DataContext = SampleData;
	this.secondChart.DataContext = SampleData;
}

Figure 1: Different chart indicators