Python Charting Stocks/Forex for Technical Analysis Part 6 - Basic Financial Graph

Key Takeaways

hello everybody and welcome back to our financial charting tutorial we have completed everything for actual like stock price acquisition and the exact same method that we use to gather the stock prices you can use to gather Forex data at Yahoo does Forex as well so now what we want to do is once we actually have these prices like generally you want to do something with it now you can do almost all you the analysis and generate you know you can generate the RSI and you can generate all kinds of stuff and you don't actually have to visualize it right it just only helps us understand it visually you know but generally the next step is going to be to actually visualize the data and there's all kinds of like programs out there that will automatically do this for you and all kinds of like all kinds of analysis and stuff but it's really beneficial to be able to one do it yourself just so you can get exactly the analysis that you want and then also later on if you ever want to make like automatic trading or algorithmic trading and you want to do it based off of your own chart analysis that you've built yourself then you're gonna well you don't have to but this would be a very beneficial skill to have to do that so anyways let's get started with actually charting this stuff so the first thing that we need is a way to actually chart the stuff and for that we're going to need a couple of things the first thing we're going to need is mat plot Lib now I do have an entire series on just matplotlib just everything to do with mat plot live and I'll probably throw these videos in that series as well but I'll continue them in this series too so you don't have to like hop around and find the other playlist so the first thing that we need is matplotlib and it just so happens I'm on matplotlib well what are the odds anyway so the website is matplotlib dot org once you get there there used to be a little downloads link up here but they've removed it so now you just scroll down a little bit here it'll say download and visit the Matt plugins download page and you probably want to download the latest stable version it really I don't know what the dates are on some of these but I prime not even sure I've the most up-to-date version but anyway you get want to download the version you have I told you to download Python to seven so you want to do that and depending on which version of Python whether you got a 32-bit or 64-bit that's what you're going to have to download I recommended that you get 64-bit but if you're on a 32-bit operating system you're kind of Sol so download whichever one that you need also if you're on like a Linux or something like that you can just download the tarball yeah so anyways that's map hot live just downloaded go through the installer if you find yourself kind of like hung up you could check out the matplotlib series but it's pretty basic if you're getting an error you've probably downloaded like the wrong yeah it says it can't find python you've probably downloaded you know 64-bit when you're running 32-bit python etc so anyways that's where you get Matt plot lib now the next thing that we need is a program called numpy it'll help us a whole lot it's definitely one of the best one of the best of like imports for python in my opinion so to get numpy probably will just go to google i can't type google comm and then just type in like numpy download and let's see numpy org pretty sure it's not going to be here but let's see hold on yeah I didn't think it would be realistic numpy all right they're probably right here yeah so then you'll come over here this is the URL but if you google it you should be able to find pi pi but it's p YP i python org slash p YP i slash n um p y scroll down and again you'll see we've got basically the same kind of setup as we did before although this one only has a windows 32 but it does work with 64 so don't worry about that and then also obviously if you're not on Windows you can use just the tarball if you're on a Linux operating system II so that's all the stuff that you're going to need once you have all that stuff downloaded and installed you can begin this tutorial so what I think I'm going to do now is pause video here we'll continue on in the next video sorry to do that to you guys but you definitely gonna want to make sure you have all this stuff done to check it go to your Start bar whatever you have and type in just Python and open up that Python command line so here's my Python command line and do two things one import mat plot lib this is just basically if you don't throw like it doesn't say an error like if I did import mat right it throws this right it says there's no module called that but if you import matplotlib and you don't have like any error like that then it means you installed matplotlib correctly now the next thing we're going to want to check is numpy so import numpy and if you don't throw any errors that means you've installed it correctly so once you're to that point continue on to the next video