How to Make a Candlestick Chart Animation

Step by step

1. 1

   Pick the market idea

   Candlestick Chart shows price action forming on a scrolling grid. Fear & Greed Meter suits a sentiment segment, Market Heatmap suits a broad market recap, and Portfolio Growth Line suits a long-term investing point. RSI Oscillator and MACD Histogram serve lessons on those specific indicators.

2. 2

   Change the look, not the numbers

   These 25 presets have no fields for prices or symbols. The data is generated, and on most presets Variation produces a different run. You control Font, Text color, Primary, Secondary, Accent, Thickness, Scale and Speed. On Candlestick Chart, Primary is rising and Secondary is falling. Fear & Greed Meter defaults the other way round.

3. 3

   Treat it as illustration

   Because the data is invented, use these to explain how a pattern looks and not to report what a market did. Defaults run from 7.5 to 20 seconds, up to 60. Dense boards such as Macro Dashboard, with eight tiles, read better at 16:9 than at 9:16.

4. 4

   Export for the frame

   Every market preset starts on a dark solid fill, so MP4 is the direct choice for a full-screen chart. To run a chart over a presenter, set Background to Transparent and export WebM with alpha for CapCut or Resolve, or a PNG sequence for Premiere Pro and After Effects.

5. 5

   Add the context yourself

   In Premiere Pro, place the MP4 on your timeline and cut to it as the voiceover reaches the pattern. Add a title in your editor naming the concept, and mark the figures as illustrative, since a viewer could otherwise read them as a real instrument's prices.

Where it is used

• Trading education

  A lesson on reading candles or momentum, with Candlestick Chart or Stochastic Panel behind the narration, so the channel never shows a real terminal or someone else's branded chart.

• Finance commentary b-roll

  A weekly market commentary cutting to Market Heatmap and Forex Rate Board as generic cover footage between shots of the host, while the host supplies the actual figures.

• Personal finance explainers

  A video on saving and compounding where Portfolio Growth Line climbs and Portfolio Allocation splits into asset classes, clearly labelled as an example and not a promised return.

Presets

25

Default duration

7.5 to 20 seconds, up to 60

Data

Generated, not entered by you

Aspect ratios

16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:5

Which format should you export?

MP4 when the chart is the shot, transparent WebM for a ticker or a price tag that has to run over a presenter or a screen recording.

Format

MP4 · WebM · PNG sequence

Alpha

WebM or PNG sequence

Resolution

720p to 8K

Aspect

16:9 · 9:16 · 1:1 · 4:5

License

Commercial use included

Three tips that make it look intentional

• Green up and red down is expected; inverting it costs the viewer a beat.
• Scroll tickers slowly enough to be read on a phone.
• Hold the final chart state before cutting so the takeaway registers.

Three things people get wrong

• Drawing a candlestick series with no axis, which leaves a shape with no scale.
• Animating the line to its final value faster than the voiceover explains it.
• Using green and red in a palette where those colors already mean something else.

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