Python for Finance Cookbook

How to do it...

Execute the following steps to create an interactive candlestick chart.

1. Import the libraries:

import cufflinks as cffrom plotly.offline import iplot, init_notebook_modeinit_notebook_mode()

2. Create the candlestick chart, using Twitter's stock prices:

qf = cf.QuantFig(df_twtr, title="Twitter's Stock Price", 
                 legend='top', name='TWTR')

3. Add volume and moving averages to the figure:

qf.add_volume()qf.add_sma(periods=20, column='Close', color='red')qf.add_ema(periods=20, color='green')

4. Display the plot:

qf.iplot()

We can observe the following plot (it is interactive in the notebook):

In the plot, we can see that the exponential ...