# Why does the color bar chart and volume bars show wrong color sometimes?

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**Created:** [May 27, 2017, 8:11am UTC](https://tradingqna.com/t/why-does-the-color-bar-chart-and-volume-bars-show-wrong-color-sometimes/14543 "2017-05-27T08:11:00Z")
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#### Post date: [May 28, 2017, 4:39am UTC](https://tradingqna.com/t/why-does-the-color-bar-chart-and-volume-bars-show-wrong-color-sometimes/14543/2 "2017-05-28T04:39:54Z")

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> [@suresh](#):
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> But shouldn’t this be like a candle chart.

Like you said, in a candle stick chart color of a candle is green if Close\>open of a candle and red if Close\<open.

Colored bar chart and volume candles don’t work on the same logic to determine its color on Kite charts. If the close of the current candle \> close of previous candle is it is green and Close of current candle \< close of previous candle it is red.

Most of the times the candle stick chart color will match to colored bar or volume bar color. But once in a while it doesn’t. Check the chart below. Since Close \< open, if it was a candle, it would be red. But since close \> close of previous candle, both the volume candle at the bottom is green in color. (Same would be the logic for a colored bar chart).

 ![](https://tradingqna.com/uploads/default/original/2X/2/2bae9065be4596961d81641eaf2f816315241981.png)

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