How a public chart is drawn and named
Chart Craft Academy maps the craft of reading figures: axes, scales, and the words printed on a plot. The aim is clearer looking — not a method for picking outcomes.
A · Purpose
An independent desk for chart literacy
Chart Craft Academy is an independent editorial project in Toronto. We write for readers who want vocabulary around how public-market charts and statistical figures are constructed: students, career-changers, and curious observers. We do not enrol cohorts, issue certificates, or manage accounts.
Notes stay free. The desk is funded by advertising and by publishing educational content, described in the FAQ and legal pages. Editorial choices are not sold as placement. We are not a trading venue and we do not recommend platforms.
- For
- Readers building a legend, not a client book.
- From
- Toronto, Canada. Independent of brokers, exchanges, and product desks.
- Limit
- Education describes how a figure is made. It does not choose a holding.
B · Register
Plotted notes
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What a price axis is actually scaling
Linear versus ratio scales as a drafting choice — useful language for reading a plot, not a cue to take a side.
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B2
A candlestick as a packed sentence
Open, high, low, and close as four named points — a definition of a glyph, not a ranking of assets.
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B3
How a statistical series is labelled
Why the name of a series matters as much as the printed number when you read a public table.
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B4
Volume as a counted bar, not a mood
What an exchange-published volume figure is counting — and where that count must stop.
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C · Scale
Four contour intervals
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Name the axis first
A term is defined before it is reused. A plot is a drawing with a legend, not a costume.
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Public sources
We point to official series, reports, and academic writing — not unnamed “street talk”.
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Distance
No signals, no favoured platforms, no commission for mentioning a product.
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Limits
Education describes mechanisms. It does not choose a holding or promise a path.
Stay on the sheet
Keep the register open
If a line on a public chart named something you had only heard, stay with the notes. If a scale is unclear, write — questions edit the next plot.
D · Layers
Where lines are checked
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Official reports
Policy notes and statistical releases used to show how a figure is defined. Not a partnership.
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Open data
National accounts and price series, cited when a note needs a measured number.
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Academic literature
Peer-reviewed work on measurement and household finance, as background only.
E · FAQ
Questions on the margin
Chart Craft Academy is an independent editorial project operated from Toronto, Canada. Contact: info@chartcraftacademy.com, +1 416 628 1940, PO Box 7402, Toronto, ON M5C 2K3. No licence or professional title is claimed.
Revenue comes from advertising and from publishing educational content. We do not sell financial products. We do not receive commissions for recommending investment products. Notes on this site are free to read.
No. The content is educational and informational only. It is not financial, legal, or tax advice and it is not a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any instrument.
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No. We publish free notes. We do not enrol students, issue certificates, or open market accounts.
Anyone looking for clearer language around how public-market charts and figures are drawn. No qualification is required, and reading does not create a client relationship.
F · Desk
Write to Chart Craft Academy
Questions about a wording, a source, or a missing definition. This form is not a channel for personal financial guidance.
- info@chartcraftacademy.com
- +1 416 628 1940
- PO Box 7402, Toronto, ON M5C 2K3, Canada