The StockAnalyzer class

For analyzing individual assets, we will build the StockAnalyzer class, which calculates metrics for a given asset. We can use the UML diagram to see all the metrics that are available:

The StockAnalyzer will be initialized with the data for the asset we want to perform a technical analysis on. This means that our __init__() method will need to accept the data as a parameter:

class StockAnalyzer:    """    Class for providing metrics for technical analysis of a stock.    """    @validate_df(columns={'open', 'high', 'low', 'close'})    def __init__(self, df):        self.data = df

Most of the calculations for our technical analysis will ...

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