What Is a Kagi Chart?

By Kristi Waterworth – Updated Jul 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM EST

Key Points

Kagi charts highlight major price changes in assets, ignoring time to reduce noise.
They work by shifting lines when asset prices hit predefined change thresholds.
Though simple, Kagi charts must be used with other analysis tools for effectiveness.

Both technical traders and the technically curious should seek to understand as many types of charts as possible so they have a wide variety of ways to analyze their data. A Kagi chart is just one of many technical charts that can show you something significant about the price of assets, if you're paying attention.

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An infographic showing an example of a kagi chart and explaining how it works. — Image source: The Motley Fool

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Asset

An asset is a resource used to hold or create economic value.

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Typically, a Kagi chart will either track changes in the price of an asset or security by a firm dollar amount, a percentage change, or based on an average true range, which is a measure of volatility. However, because it's a chart built to be blind to time, it's important to interpret Kagi charts alongside other types of technical charts.

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About the Author

Kristi Waterworth has been a contributing real estate and financial expert at The Motley Fool, covering real estate, investing, and personal finance topics, since 2020. Kristi has been interviewed by various TV media outlets and podcasts for her real estate investing expertise – from residential real estate to digital real estate and everything in between. Kristi’s journalist career spans over 25 years, and she has written about real estate investing, homeownership, and home construction specifically for the last decade. She was also previously a licensed Realtor and general building contractor before the Great Recession and housing market collapse. She holds a bachelor’s degree in American history from Columbia College in Missouri.

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