Flex 101: Creating a Performance Comparison Chart

Yet again, I’ve been inspired by others’ creations on the web. In this post, we will walk through the steps to create a custom stock comparison chart similar to the ones used in Google Finance, in Flex using a mx:DataGrid.

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