Economics and markets
- Candlestick chart Traditionally Munehisa Homma (unverified); introduced to the West by Steve Nison · 18th century - 1991
- Tableau economique Francois Quesnay · 1758
- Balance-of-trade chart William Playfair · 1786
- Kagi, renko and three-line-break charts Japanese traders; Nison 1994 · 19th-20th c.
- Playfair wheat and wages chart William Playfair · 1821
- Von Thunen rings Johann Heinrich von Thunen · 1826
- Jevons logarithmic price chart William Stanley Jevons · 1862-1863
- Point-and-figure chart Tape readers; de Villiers 1933 · 1880s-1933
- Edgeworth box Francis Ysidro Edgeworth; boxed form from Pareto and Bowley · 1881
- Standard-gauge historical-curve atlas Alfred Marshall · 1885
- Waterfall (bridge) chart No originator documented; popularised by McKinsey and Company · 20th century
- Crossover (break-even) chart Henry Hess · 1903
- Lorenz curve Max Otto Lorenz · 1905
- Weber location triangle Alfred Weber · 1909
- Balance (counter-poise) chart Irving Fisher; two-factor elaboration by Karsten 1923 · 1911
- Lag determination by superimposed tracings Willard C. Brinton (given as working practice) · 1914
- Harvard ABC business barometer Warren Milton Persons, Harvard Economic Service · 1919
- Gann fan and square of nine William Delbert Gann · 1920s-1930s
- Logarithmic retrospect chart Karl G. Karsten · 1923
- Silhouette bar-chart Karl G. Karsten (name and account); his examples draw on the Survey of Current Business, and one is credited to Carl Snyder · 1923
- Cobweb model of price adjustment Henry Schultz, Umberto Ricci and Jan Tinbergen independently; named by Nicholas Kaldor · 1930-1938
- Radial price-zone disc Arthur R. Burns (source: Federal Trade Commission, Price Bases Inquiry) · 1936
- Elliott wave diagram Ralph Nelson Elliott · 1938
- MONIAC hydraulic computer Alban William Housego Phillips · 1949
- Andrews pitchfork Alan Hall Andrews, after George Fillmore Swain via Roger Babson · mid-20th century
- Ichimoku Kinko Hyo Goichi Hosoda (pen name Ichimoku Sanjin) · 1969
- Equivolume chart Richard W. Arms Jr. · 1971
- Market Profile J. Peter Steidlmayer · 1984-1985