fiddle

$(function () {
        $('#container').highcharts({
            chart: {
                zoomType: 'x',
                spacingRight: 1
            },
            title: {
                text: 'USD to EUR exchange rate from 2006 through 2008'
            },
            subtitle: {
                text: document.ontouchstart === undefined ?
                    'Click and drag in the plot area to zoom in' :
                    'Pinch the chart to zoom in'
            },
            xAxis: {
                type: 'linear',
                ordinance: false,
                maxZoom: 10, // fourteen days
                title: {
                    text: null
                }
            },
            yAxis: {
                title: {
                    text: 'Exchange rate'
                }
            },
            tooltip: {
                shared: true
            },
            legend: {
                enabled: false
            },
            plotOptions: {
                area: {
                    fillColor: {
                        linearGradient: { x1: 0, y1: 0, x2: 0, y2: 1},
                        stops: [
                            [0, Highcharts.getOptions().colors[0]],
                            [1, Highcharts.Color(Highcharts.getOptions().colors[0]).setOpacity(0).get('rgba')]
                        ]
                    },
                    lineWidth: 1,
                    marker: {
                        enabled: false
                    },
                    shadow: false,
                    states: {
                        hover: {
                            lineWidth: 1
                        }
                    },
                    threshold: null
                }
            },

            series: [{
                type: 'area',
                name: 'USD to EUR',
                pointInterval: 1,
                pointStart: 0,
                data: [
                    {name: '1970/  9/ 27', y: 0   },
                    {name: '1970/ 10/ 10', y: 0.6 },
                    {name: '1970/ 10/ 18', y: 0.7 },
                    {name: '1970/ 11/  2', y: 0.8 },
                    {name: '1970/ 11/  9', y: 0.6 },
                    {name: '1970/ 11/ 16', y: 0.6 },
                    {name: '1970/ 11/ 28', y: 0.67},
                    {name: '1971/  0/  1', y: 0.81},
                    {name: '1971/  0/  8', y: 0.78},
                    {name: '1971/  0/ 12', y: 0.98},
                    {name: '1971/  0/ 27', y: 1.84},
                    {name: '1971/  1/ 10', y: 1.80},
                    {name: '1971/  1/ 18', y: 1.80},
                    {name: '1971/  1/ 24', y: 1.92},
                    {name: '1971/  2/  4', y: 2.49},
                    {name: '1971/  2/ 11', y: 2.79},
                    {name: '1971/  2/ 15', y: 2.73},
                    {name: '1971/  2/ 25', y: 2.61},
                    {name: '1971/  3/  2', y: 2.76},
                    {name: '1971/  3/  6', y: 2.82},
                    {name: '1971/  3/ 13', y: 2.8 },
                    {name: '1971/  4/  3', y: 2.1 },
                    {name: '1971/  4/ 26', y: 1.1 },
                    {name: '1971/  5/  9', y: 0.25},
                    {name: '1971/  5/ 12', y: 0   }
                ]
            }]
        });
    });