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Using charts

Charts help to show how much the price of an asset has moved up or down within a certain time period.

Overall portfolio return

On your Robinhood Crypto account Portfolio page, your chart shows today’s overall portfolio return in Euros and percent.

The daily return for crypto is calculated using today’s prices as of 12 AM (midnight in your time zone).

Chart options

On Robinhood Crypto, you can view a standard or advanced chart for a crypto. There are 2 types of charts you can look at:

  • The line chart shows you the closing price at any point in time.
  • The candlestick chart shows you 5 data points (open, close, low, high, and price direction) during a time interval.

In the app, you can view a standard or an advanced version of either the line or candlestick chart.

Advanced charts

The following shows the difference between the standard and advanced line charts for Bitcoin within the app:

EU Bitcoin chart

BTC EU advanced chart

Time intervals

Indicators are calculated over a period of time, which are defined by the number of intervals. The length of an interval depends on the time span shown in the chart. You can select different time spans ranging 1 hour to 5 years. Each time span plots a different time interval.

Interval lengths depend on the selected time span, the chart view, and what you’re viewing. On advanced charts in the app, you can customize the interval used in the chart.

  • 1H (1-hour) chart, 1 interval is 15 seconds
  • 1D (1-day) chart, 1 interval is 30 minutes
  • 1W (1-week), 1 interval is 4 hour
  • 1M (1-month) chart, 1 interval is 1 hour
  • 3M (3-month) chart, 1 interval is 1 day
  • 1Y (1-year) chart, 1 interval is 1 week
  • 5Y (5-years) chart, 1 interval is 1 month

About line charts

The line chart view is shown by default.

You’ll see the price line in either the standard or advanced chart view. It shows how volatile the price was for the selected time period. Large swings up or down indicate a very volatile price. Short or steady changes imply a relatively stable price that’s moving in one direction during the selected time period.

About candlestick charts

Each candlestick includes the following during the selected time interval of each candle:

  • Open is the beginning price
  • Close is the price of the last trade
  • High is the highest price reached
  • Low is the lowest price reached

The following shows a candlestick chart, where the body, or thick part, of the candlestick represents the difference in the open and close prices. If it has no body, it means the open and close prices are the same.

The wicks, or thin lines, of the candlestick represent the high and low prices in the selected time interval.

  • A bullish candlestick is green when the price has increased, meaning the close price is above the open price:

    Green candlestick

  • A bearish candlestick is red when the price has decreased, meaning the close price is below the open price:

    Red candlestick

1M candlestick chart

Disclosures

Crypto markets are highly volatile, and trading or holding crypto can lead to loss of your assets. Crypto is not legal tender, and is not backed by any government or covered by any government compensation scheme.

Crypto services are offered to eligible customers through an account with Robinhood Europe, UAB (company number 306377915), with its registered address at Mėsinių 5, LT-01133 Vilnius, Lithuania (“RHEC”). RHEC is registered according to the regulatory requirements of the Republic of Lithuania as a virtual currency exchange and virtual currency depository wallet operator. RHEC is supervised by the Lithuanian Financial Crime Investigation Service under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania. RHEC is registered under No. RDWW-1076 in the register of virtual currency activities, kept by the Director of the Tax Administration Chamber in Katowice, in accordance with the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Act applicable in Poland. RHEC is also registered according to the regulatory requirements of the Republic of Italy in the special section of the register of bureaux de change (virtual currency and digital wallet services providers) kept by the Organismo Agenti e Mediatori (OAM) under No. PSV153. RHEC is subject to requirements and obligations applicable in the Republic of Italy in accordance with the Legislative Decree No. 231/2007 as to the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering and terrorist financing and, to this end, is supervised by the Finance Intelligence Unit (Unità di Informazione Finanziaria – UIF) of the Bank of Italy.

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Crypto markets are highly volatile, and trading or holding crypto can lead to loss of your assets. Crypto is not legal tender, and is not backed by any government or covered by any government compensation scheme.

Cryptocurrency services are offered for eligible EU customers through an account with Robinhood Europe, UAB (company number 306377915), with its registered address at Mėsinių 5, LT-01133 Vilnius, Lithuania (“RHEC”). RHEC is registered according to the regulatory requirements of the Republic of Lithuania as a virtual currency exchange and virtual currency depository wallet operator. RHEC is supervised by the Lithuanian Financial Crime Investigation Service under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania. RHEC is registered under the applicable Polish law as a virtual assets service provider (VASP) in the Register of Virtual Currency Activities maintained by the Director of the Tax Administration Chamber.

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Crypto markets are highly volatile, and trading or holding crypto can lead to loss of your assets. Crypto is not legal tender, and is not backed by any government or covered by any government compensation scheme.

Cryptocurrency services are offered for eligible EU customers through an account with Robinhood Europe, UAB (company number 306377915), with its registered address at Mėsinių 5, LT-01133 Vilnius, Lithuania (“RHEC”). RHEC is registered according to the regulatory requirements of the Republic of Lithuania as a virtual currency exchange and virtual currency depository wallet operator. RHEC is supervised by the Lithuanian Financial Crime Investigation Service under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Lithuania. RHEC is registered under the applicable Polish law as a virtual assets service provider (VASP) in the Register of Virtual Currency Activities maintained by the Director of the Tax Administration Chamber.

Robinhood, 85 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025.© 2024 Robinhood. All rights reserved.