Daily Return plot without interpolating lines

I want to plot my daily returns against dates.I want a plot similar to the one I have attached(returns.jpg).

But when I use below code

plot(dates,returns)

I get a plot like the attached file StockReturns.Pdf.

Can someone help me plot my daily returns similar to the plot return.jpg ?

Answer 1

[Stephan]

Hi,

try:

plot(returns)

Best regards

Stephan

[Sana Ejaz]

Hi,

Thank you .i tried this but this gives me a graph with lines and the one I need.

[Stephan]

can you attach your data?

[Sana Ejaz]

Hi,

I need above mentioned graph for the average daily returns but I dont have dates in this file and I don't know how I can add dates in this file.in this file each column represent an year and the rows represent dates in that year.i.e. value in row 1 column 1 is for 1 Jan 1990 and value in row1 column 2 is for 1 jan 1991 so on.

The graph I attached earlier was just for example.Attached with this comment is my actual data.

Would highly appreciate if you can help me out.