( new FastChart\StockChart ()) -> setSize ( 1200 , 600 ) -> setTitle ( 'AAPL last 90 days' ) -> setTheme ( FastChart\Chart :: THEME_DARK ) -> setOhlcv ( $ohlcvRows ) -> setMovingAverages ([ 20 , 50 , 200 ]) -> setVolumePane ( true ) -> setCandleStyle ( FastChart\Chart :: STYLE_HOLLOW ) -> renderToFile ( '/tmp/aapl.png' );

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That's a server-side OHLCV candlestick chart with three moving averages, a volume pane, and a hollow candle style. Roughly 68 ms on a single core at 1920×1080. No microservice, no Node sidecar, no JavaScript runtime. PHP, gd, fastchart.

fastchart 0.2.0 shipped two days ago. 19 chart types behind a fluent OO API, plus a Symbol family (Code 128 barcodes and QR codes) that landed in this release. The repo is at github.com/iliaal/fastchart .

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