4. Composition Charts – The type of chart is “composition” charts, which attempt to show viewers “this is how my data is composed.” By far, the most common “composition” chart is a pie chart. A pie chart might show that 60% of my survey respondents were composed of women and 40% were men. Section: Excel Basics Tutorial: Excel Chart Types Excel Chart Types: Pie, Column, Line, Bar, Area, and Scatter. Greetings. Today we will discuss the most common chart types supported by Microsoft Excel and provide many sample charts. Also, for each chart type, we'll show you available sub-types, such as stacked, 100% stacked, and 3-D. The Intraday 5-min chart is one of the most common day trading charts used by the trading community. The chart below represents the price action of the S&P 500 for a period of 2 trading days. Each "bar" or "candlestick" represents the opening, closing, high and low of each 5 minute interval for the time period.