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[Matplotlib-users] Question about creating Financial Chart...

[Ryugan M. <ryu...@sb...>]

I'm a newbie and am trying to create a financial chart that converts or =
plots a tick data to any time frame (ex. daily, intraday and etc...). =20

I'm also using data that is written in a text file.  I only see an =
example that uses Yahoo data.   =20

Could anybody help me on how I can do this?

Thank you.

Ryugan Mizuta

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Question about creating Financial Chart...

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Ryugan" == Ryugan Mizuta <ryu...@sb...> writes:

    Ryugan> I'm a newbie and am trying to create a financial chart
    Ryugan> that converts or plots a tick data to any time frame
    Ryugan> (ex. daily, intraday and etc...).  I'm also using data
    Ryugan> that is written in a text file.  I only see an example
    Ryugan> that uses Yahoo data.

    Ryugan> Could anybody help me on how I can do this?

The examples finance_work on the web site
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html#finance_work2 loads
financial data from a CSV file.  It uses a function load_quotes
defined in the helper.py module

  http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/screenshots/finance_work2.py
  http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/screenshots/helpers.py

The data files for this example are found in 

  http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/screenshots/data/

The downside is that this is a fairly sophisticated example that may
not be that easy to parse if you are getting started with
python/matplotlib, so hopefully someone on this list can provide a
simpler one for you.

Hope this helps,
John