So I have been able to successfully install mplfinance with pip and when I import it alone I receive no error. Though when I do: from mplfinance import candlestick_ohlc I get the error ImportError: cannot import name 'candlestick_ohlc' from 'mplfinance' I have checked command prompt again, and it says it has successfully installed mplfinance. Why am I receiving this error?
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Trenton McKinney
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1Can you just `import mplfinance`? – mkrieger1 Apr 15 '20 at 20:39
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6`from mplfinance.original_flavor import candlestick_ohlc`? See https://pypi.org/project/mplfinance/ – BigBen Apr 15 '20 at 20:40
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@mkrieger1, I can import mplfinance without an issue, though when I try to get candlestick_ohlc is when I get the error. – benito.cano Apr 15 '20 at 20:43
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@BigBen, I get the same error – benito.cano Apr 15 '20 at 20:44
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1Is there a particular reason you are importing candlestick? mpf.plot(x, type='candle') will do the trick for you. – Brijesh Apr 18 '20 at 00:00
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So I found out the reason was because mplfinance has changed the library, so now to use old pacakges, you have to do "from mplfinance.original_flavor import candlestick_ohlc" – benito.cano Apr 18 '20 at 16:33
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So from what I understand the Matplotlib for finance has changed so that:
To access the old API with the new mplfinance package installed, change statments
from:
from mpl_finance import
to:
from mplfinance.original_flavor import candlestick_ohlc
and then it should work fine.
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You do not have to import 'candlestick_ohlc' anymore.
'mplfinance.plot()' defaults to ohlc style charts.
These links provide good examples. The second one uses candlesticks. You can change that arg.
https://towardsdatascience.com/trading-toolbox-03-ohlc-charts-95b48bb9d748
https://openwritings.net/pg/mplfinance/python-draw-candlestickohlc-using-new-mplfinance
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the first thing you have to do is install the library with the command:
pip install mplfinance
after that you can call the resource like:
from mplfinance.original_flavor import candlestick_ohlc
