Plot a candlestick chart
A candlestick chart is a style of chart that packs multiple pieces of price information into one chart. It can provide you with a good sense of price action and visual aid for technical analysis.
You will plot a candlestick chart using the same data as the previous exercise, which has been preloaded as bitcoin_data
. Also, plotly.graph_objects
has been imported as go
.
This exercise is part of the course
Financial Trading in Python
Exercise instructions
- Define a
candlestick
object using columns frombitcoin_data
. - Create a plot using the
candlestick
object defined in the previous step. - Display the candlestick chart.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Define the candlestick data
candlestick = ____(
x=bitcoin_data.index,
open=bitcoin_data['____'],
high=bitcoin_data['____'],
low=bitcoin_data['____'],
close=bitcoin_data['____'])
# Create a candlestick figure
fig = ____(data=[____])
fig.update_layout(title='Bitcoin prices')
# Show the plot
fig.____()