mplfinance

matplotlib utilities for the visualization, and visual analysis, of financial data

Installation

pip install --upgrade mplfinance

• mplfinance requires matplotlib and pandas

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⇾ Older Release Information

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Contents and Tutorials

• The New API
• Tutorials
  • Basic Usage
  • Customizing the Appearance of Plots
  • Adding Your Own Technical Studies to Plots
  • Subplots: Multiple Plots on a Single Figure
  • Fill Between: Filling Plots with Color
  • Price-Movement Plots (Renko, P&F, etc)
  • Trends, Support, Resistance, and Trading Lines
  • Coloring Individual Candlesticks (New: December 2021)
  • Saving the Plot to a File
  • Animation/Updating your plots in realtime
• ⇾ Latest Release Info ⇽
• Older Release Info
• Some Background History About This Package
• Old API Availability

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The New API

This repository, matplotlib/mplfinance, contains a new matplotlib finance API that makes it easier to create financial plots. It interfaces nicely with Pandas DataFrames.

More importantly, the new API automatically does the extra matplotlib work that the user previously had to do "manually" with the old API.** (The old API is still available within this package; see below).

The conventional way to import the new API is as follows:

    import mplfinance as mpf

The most common usage is then to call

    mpf.plot(data)

where data is a Pandas DataFrame object containing Open, High, Low and Close data, with a Pandas DatetimeIndex.

Details on how to call the new API can be found below under Basic Usage, as well as in the jupyter notebooks in the examples folder.

I am very interested to hear from you regarding what you think of the new mplfinance, plus any suggestions you may have for improvement. You can reach me at dgoldfarb.github@gmail.com or, if you prefer, provide feedback or a ask question on our issues page.

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Basic Usage

Start with a Pandas DataFrame containing OHLC data. For example,

import pandas as pd
daily = pd.read_csv('examples/data/SP500_NOV2019_Hist.csv',index_col=0,parse_dates=True)
daily.index.name = 'Date'
daily.shape
daily.head(3)
daily.tail(3)

(20, 5)

	Open	High	Low	Close	Volume
Date
2019-11-01	3050.72	3066.95	3050.72	3066.91	510301237
2019-11-04	3078.96	3085.20	3074.87	3078.27	524848878
2019-11-05	3080.80	3083.95	3072.15	3074.62	585634570

...

	Open	High	Low	Close	Volume
Date
2019-11-26	3134.85	3142.69	3131.00	3140.52	986041660
2019-11-27	3145.49	3154.26	3143.41	3153.63	421853938
2019-11-29	3147.18	3150.30	3139.34	3140.98	286602291

After importing mplfinance, plotting OHLC data is as simple as calling mpf.plot() on the dataframe

import mplfinance as mpf
mpf.plot(daily)

The default plot type, as you can see above, is 'ohlc'. Other plot types can be specified with the keyword argument type, for example, type='candle', type='line', type='renko', or type='pnf'

mpf.plot(daily,type='candle')

mpf.plot(daily,type='line')

year = pd.read_csv('examples/data/SPY_20110701_20120630_Bollinger.csv',index_col=0,parse_dates=True)
year.index.name = 'Date'
mpf.plot(year,type='renko')

mpf.plot(year,type='pnf')

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We can also plot moving averages with the mav keyword - use a scalar for a single moving average - use a tuple or list of integers for multiple moving averages

mpf.plot(daily,type='ohlc',mav=4)

mpf.plot(daily,type='candle',mav=(3,6,9))

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We can also display Volume

mpf.plot(daily,type='candle',mav=(3,6,9),volume=True)

Notice, in the above chart, there are no gaps along the x-coordinate, even though there are days on which there was no trading. Non-trading days are simply not shown (since there are no prices for those days).

• However, sometimes people like to see these gaps, so that they can tell, with a quick glance, where the weekends and holidays fall.

• Non-trading days can be displayed with the show_nontrading keyword.

• Note that for these purposes non-trading intervals are those that are not represented in the data at all. (There are simply no rows for those dates or datetimes). This is because, when data is retrieved from an exchange or other market data source, that data typically will not include rows for non-trading days (weekends and holidays for example). Thus ...
• show_nontrading=True will display all dates (all time intervals) between the first time stamp and the last time stamp in the data (regardless of whether rows exist for those dates or datetimes).
• show_nontrading=False (the default value) will show only dates (or datetimes) that have actual rows in the data. (This means that if there are rows in your DataFrame that exist but contain only NaN values, these rows will still appear on the plot even if show_nontrading=False)
• For example, in the chart below, you can easily see weekends, as well as a gap at Thursday, November 28th for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday.

mpf.plot(daily,type='candle',mav=(3,6,9),volume=True,show_nontrading=True)

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We can also plot intraday data:

intraday = pd.read_csv('examples/data/SP500_NOV2019_IDay.csv',index_col=0,parse_dates=True)
intraday = intraday.drop('Volume',axis=1) # Volume is zero anyway for this intraday data set
intraday.index.name = 'Date'
intraday.shape
intraday.head(3)
intraday.tail(3)

(1563, 4)

	Open	Close	High	Low
Date
2019-11-05 09:30:00	3080.80	3080.49	3081.47	3080.30
2019-11-05 09:31:00	3080.33	3079.36	3080.33	3079.15
2019-11-05 09:32:00	3079.43	3079.68	3080.46	3079.43

...

	Open	Close	High	Low
Date
2019-11-08 15:57:00	3090.73	3090.70	3091.02	3090.52
2019-11-08 15:58:00	3090.73	3091.04	3091.13	3090.58
2019-11-08 15:59:00	3091.16	3092.91	3092.91	3090.96

The above dataframe contains Open,High,Low,Close data at 1 minute intervals for the S&P 500 stock index for November 5, 6, 7 and 8, 2019. Let's look at the last hour of trading on November 6th, with a 7 minute and 12 minute moving average.

iday = intraday.loc['2019-11-06 15:00':'2019-11-06 16:00',:]
mpf.plot(iday,type='candle',mav=(7,12))

The "time-interpretation" of the mav integers depends on the frequency of the data, because the mav integers are the number of data points used in the Moving Average (not the number of days or minutes, etc). Notice above that for intraday data the x-axis automatically displays TIME instead of date. Below we see that if the intraday data spans into two (or more) trading days the x-axis automatically displays BOTH TIME and DATE

iday = intraday.loc['2019-11-05':'2019-11-06',:]
mpf.plot(iday,type='candle')

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In the plot below, we see what an intraday plot looks like when we display non-trading time periods with show_nontrading=True for intraday data spanning into two or more days.

mpf.plot(iday,type='candle',show_nontrading=True)

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Below: 4 days of intraday data with show_nontrading=True

mpf.plot(intraday,type='ohlc',show_nontrading=True)

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Below: the same 4 days of intraday data with show_nontrading defaulted to False.

mpf.plot(intraday,type='line') 

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Below: Daily data spanning across a year boundary automatically adds the YEAR to the DATE format

df = pd.read_csv('examples/data/yahoofinance-SPY-20080101-20180101.csv',index_col=0,parse_dates=True)
df.shape
df.head(3)
df.tail(3)

(2519, 6)

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	Open	High	Low	Close	Adj Close	Volume
Date