NOV Chart for .NET - the best solution for building advanced financial charts and market data visualizations with .NET.

Financial Charting with NOV Chart for .NET

NOV Chart for .NET is a powerful charting framework for creating professional financial applications with C# and .NET. It provides the performance, flexibility, and customization required to transform complex market data into clear, interactive financial visualizations. Developers can use NOV Chart to build stock-market dashboards, trading applications, portfolio-analysis tools and automated financial reports for WinForms, WPF, Blazor and macOS from a single codebase.

Support for a Wide Variety of Financial Charts

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Stock Price Charts

Stock price charts visualize price movements and market trends over time. They typically display stock prices on the Y-axis and date-time values on the X-axis. NOV Chart supports conventional Line and Area charts as well as specialized financial chart types, including Candlestick charts, Open-High-Low-Close (OHLC) charts, Kagi charts, Renko charts, and Three Line Break charts. Each chart type can be customized with different colors, styles, axes, scales and data-labeling options, allowing developers to create visualizations tailored to specific trading and investment applications.

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Volume and Multi-Series Charts

Financial applications frequently need to present several related market metrics within the same chart. For example, a chart may combine stock prices with traded volume, technical indicators, market benchmarks, or comparative securities.

NOV Chart supports multiple chart series, axes and chart panels. Price, volume and analytical data can be displayed together while maintaining synchronized date-time scales and precise alignment between chart areas.

This makes it possible to build advanced financial charts that present several layers of market information in a single coordinated view.


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Treemap

NOV Chart also supports less common financial charts such as financial treemaps that provide a compact overview of markets, portfolios, sectors, or asset classes. The size and color of each treemap cell can represent values such as market capitalization, portfolio weight, price performance, or trading activity. This helps investors quickly evaluate market composition, sector exposure, relative performance and asset allocation.

Support for Technical Indicators and Price Analysis

Technical indicators are mathematical calculations based on price, volume, and other market data. They help traders analyze market direction, momentum, volatility and the strength of price movements.

NOV Chart supports displaying technical indicators directly over stock-price data or in synchronized chart panels below the main price chart.


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Moving Averages and Trend Analysis

Moving averages smooth short-term price fluctuations and make the underlying market direction easier to identify.

NOV Chart supports commonly used moving averages such as the Simple Moving Average (SMA) and Exponential Moving Average (EMA). Moving averages can be combined with stock-price series to identify trends, crossovers and potential changes in market direction.


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Price Indicators

Price indicators calculate a representative value for each trading period using combinations of its open, high, low and closing prices.

Among the indicators supported by NOV Chart are Median Price, Typical Price, Weighted Close and Average Price. They provide alternative representations of price data that can be used as inputs for additional technical analysis or displayed alongside the original stock series.


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Range Indicators

NOV Chart also supports range and volatility indicators. Those indicators display upper and lower boundaries around market prices. Examples include Bollinger Bands, Moving Average Envelopes, and price channels.

These indicators help traders evaluate volatility, identify expanding or contracting trading ranges, and recognize potential breakouts, support and resistance levels, or trend reversals.


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Volume and Market Activity Indicators

Volume indicators analyze trading activity to evaluate the strength behind price movements.

NOV Chart supports volume indicators such as On-Balance Volume, Chaikin Money Flow, and Volume Oscillator that can help confirm trends, reveal buying or selling pressure, or identify potential reversals or breakouts.

Support for Interactive Features used in Financial Charting

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Zooming, Scrolling and Data Exploration

NOV Chart provides interactive tools for efficiently exploring large financial datasets. Users can zoom into selected time periods, scroll through historical market data and examine dense financial charts with smooth, responsive interaction.

Interactivity features are complemented with interactive cursors, tooltips, and hit testing. Users can inspect individual price points, compare values across different series, and retrieve detailed information directly from the chart.

Further, support for date-time axes, range selection, and synchronized chart panels makes it easier to analyze the same period across price, volume, and indicator data.

Typical Financial Chart Applications

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Financial Dashboards

NOV Chart can be used to build interactive financial dashboards. They usually combine multiple charts, KPI indicators, and other analytical views. Essential features for those types of dashboards are the ability to mix different content in the form of Charts, Grid (Data Tables), Gauges (KPIs), and Rich Text content. This allows users to explore extensive financial information presented in different ways and have interactive zooming, and drill down.

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Financial Reports

NOV Chart can be used together with NOV Rich Text Editor to create programmatic financial reports containing data, charts, and KPIs. It enables you to create visualizations for portfolio growth, asset performance, returns, and comparative analysis. Because NOV Chart can run on any .NET Core server, it is also well suited for automated report generation with rich charting content. Reports can be generated and deployed on AWS, Azure, Docker, or any other ASP.NET Core-compatible environment. Reports can be exported to all common text document formats, including PDF, DOCX, RTF, and HTML.

Why Use NOV Chart for .NET for Financial Charting

  • Advanced Multi-Series Financial Visualizations

    The control allows you to create complex financial charts by combining multiple data series in a single visualization. You can display price data, volume, analytical values, and comparison data while maintaining complete control over chart appearance and behavior.

  • Multiple Axes and Advanced Scales

    The chart can display different financial measurements together using multiple axes with independent ranges and units. The ability to customize axis labels, tick marks, grid lines, formatting, and scale behavior gives you precise control over the content of the financial data presented to the user.

  • High-Performance Rendering for Large Datasets

    The build-in GPU acceleration and multithreading support ensure you can visualize large amounts of historical financial data while maintaining smooth performance.

  • Interactive Data Exploration

    The interactivity features of the controls allow users to analyze financial information using built-in zooming, scrolling, tooltips, and hit testing. Users can navigate large datasets and inspect individual data points directly within the chart.

  • Complete Set of Chart Types for Financial Charts

    You can choose from the common charting types found in business applications such as Line, Bar, Area, Ooint, etc and mix them with specialized financial charts like OHLC, Candlestick, Kagi, Renko, Three Line Break, and Treemaps. This ensures the control can cover any financial data visualization scenarios.

  • Cross-Platform .NET Deployment

    Build financial charting applications across multiple .NET platforms using a consistent development model. NOV Chart supports desktop and web environments including WPF, WinForms, Blazor WebAssembly, and macOS applications.

  • Enterprise Application Integration

    Integrate professional financial visualizations into business applications, reporting systems, analytics platforms, and custom enterprise software solutions built with .NET.