I posed this question on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41151606/highcharts-bubble-graph-custom-marker/41168009#41168009

And this was a nice solution: https://jsfiddle.net/kx62dztf/2/

It is a star.

The challenge moving foward: bubbles on the 3-d scatter plot with 3-d shapes / images...

@Monte Shaffer, see http://jsfiddle.net/highcharts/cbfh6mgy/.

The big remaining problem now is that the "circle" symbol (default) is not actually a circle, but a rectangle with rounded corners. We have gotten away with that on scatter charts with small symbols, but the big bubbles are more revealing.

What about a url (size w, h based on previous radius)?

https://assets.mypatentideas.com/images/fiddle/star.png

Awesome! Works perfectly. Thank you

That did the trick, thanks again, i appreciate the quick response on this!

Sorry about that, see updated fiddle. I also fixed the animation thing. Animation doesn't work, but doesn't crash it either.

Thanks for the plugin! I noticed that zooming in doesn't work in your fiddle nor in my test environment.

I get this: "Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded"

Does this work on any version of highcharts?

Is it possible to change the bubble symbol from a bubble to a square or triangle? I see that this is possible in scatterplot, but has it been implemented for bubble charts? Are there any workarounds?

We are using highcharts-more-2.0.1.js and highstock-2.0.1.js

Thanks,
Thiago

Currently the bubble series only supports circles. A workaround for you may be to use a scatter chart with individual marker sizes.

do we have any option for custom marker in bubble chart?

Note to self: To make bubbles behave like scatter in this regard, we need to
- Use Series.drawPoints instead of ColumnSeries.drawPoints
- Use individual radius
- Rewrite BubbleSeries.animate to use x, y, width and height.
- Use the markergroup to trace mouse events.

Yep, I would like to place custom Image / SVG image as Map Pins instead of bubble

i need to implement the square symbol in bubble high chart is there any way to implement that ?

You can add a scatter series with image markers.

nice idea. I also would like to use custom symbols with external graphics, such as country flags in the bubble chart.