.. _pylab_examples-finance_demo: pylab_examples example code: finance_demo.py ============================================ .. plot:: /home/mdboom/Work/builds/matplotlib/doc/mpl_examples/pylab_examples/finance_demo.py :: #!/usr/bin/env python import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib.dates import DateFormatter, WeekdayLocator, HourLocator, \ DayLocator, MONDAY from matplotlib.finance import quotes_historical_yahoo, candlestick,\ plot_day_summary, candlestick2 # (Year, month, day) tuples suffice as args for quotes_historical_yahoo date1 = ( 2004, 2, 1) date2 = ( 2004, 4, 12 ) mondays = WeekdayLocator(MONDAY) # major ticks on the mondays alldays = DayLocator() # minor ticks on the days weekFormatter = DateFormatter('%b %d') # e.g., Jan 12 dayFormatter = DateFormatter('%d') # e.g., 12 quotes = quotes_historical_yahoo('INTC', date1, date2) if len(quotes) == 0: raise SystemExit fig, ax = plt.subplots() fig.subplots_adjust(bottom=0.2) ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(mondays) ax.xaxis.set_minor_locator(alldays) ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(weekFormatter) #ax.xaxis.set_minor_formatter(dayFormatter) #plot_day_summary(ax, quotes, ticksize=3) candlestick(ax, quotes, width=0.6) ax.xaxis_date() ax.autoscale_view() plt.setp( plt.gca().get_xticklabels(), rotation=45, horizontalalignment='right') plt.show() Keywords: python, matplotlib, pylab, example, codex (see :ref:`how-to-search-examples`)