Discover the awesome Power of mplfinance (Python Tutorial)
Discover the awesome Power of mplfinance (Python Tutorial)
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If you haven’t heard of mplfinance, you’ve been living under a rock. This little Python library that uses matplotlib under the hood offers a whole lot of convenient charting awesomeness and - I mean - it packs a punch! For an overview of what mplfinance can do, often in a single line of code, read on.
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What is mplfinance?
mplfinance is a financial charting library for Python developed by the matplotlib development team and designed to make financial charting of pandas dataframes simpler.
In particular, the library offers:
Simplified styling of plots
Simply vertical & horizontal lines, trend lines
Simple sub plots
Fill between lines
Chart types like Candle, Renko or Point-and-Figure charts and
Coloring individual candle sticks
In this tutorial we will introduce the main features mplfinance.
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