John,
Thank you for your reply. A couple of issues though.
I looked at the documentation and saw the alpha
transperancy parameter, but for some reason I was
still getting the same results. Maybe I am missing
something very fundamental. If alpha is not provided
then the default is for the candlestick box not to be
transperant, correct? Even changing the alpha value
wouldn't produced desired results, I can increase
transperancy, but not eliminate it. I wasn't seeing
that since I can still see the lines (wicks) go
through the boxes that's why I asked here. Also, this
may be another foolish oversight on my part, but how
come when I have candlestick2(axMiddle, opens, closes,
highs, lows, width=4, colorup='k', colordown='r')
instead of getting a bar colored black when it closes
above the open price I get the opposite --- red? It
seems colorup should be black, colordown -- red as in
colorup : the color of the lines where close >=
open
colordown : the color of the lines where close <
open
As far as the moving average calculation, I did see
the disclaimer and didn't mean to be a stickler, it
just seem a bit misleading to me as I was trying to do
the Exponential Moving Average calculation and compare
the results to the actual financial charts. They
didn't match and I thought I would point that out.
--- John Hunter <jdhunter@...4...> wrote:
>>>>> "Daisy" == Daisy Fuentes <elithi45@...9...>
writes:> I was looking at the example located @
>
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/screenshots/finance_work2.py
> and was wondering if it's possible to
color the candlestick
> boxes so that the candlestick wicks are
not visible through
> them.Yes, the alpha argument to the candlestick plot
controls the
transparency. alpha is the traditional name for the
transparency
level, so look for it in documentation strings, eg
in
http://matplotlib.sf.net/matplotlib.finance.html#-candlestick
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> Additionally, is it possible to have a
candlestick
> that's not just a plain line when the
open and the close
> prices are the same. Would it be possible
to add a
> horizontal tick mark?
> >
> >
> -
> >
> >
You can add these marks fairly easily yourself by
adding an additional
plot command, and using the marker style TICKLEFT or
TICKRIGHT. In
other words, you can plot any kind of line you want
more or less. The
candlestick method may not support it directly, but
it is easy to
overlay. We should probably add a marker style
TICKCENTERX for this
kind of marker, and better add TICKCENTERY for
symmetry. It's only a
few lines of code that need to be added to the
lines.py module.> Also, I noticed that the simple moving
average is
> calculated based on the price open
instead of price close.I'm not attempting to make a financially meaningful
plot, but to
illustrate plotting techniques. You are free to do
moving averages
over open, close, average or random data. As I note
in the
finance_work screenshot textSome of the data in the plot, are real financial
data, some are
random traces that I used since the goal was to
illustrate plotting
techniques, not market analysis!Hope this helps,
JDH
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