#!/usr/bin/env python from pylab import * from matplotlib.dates import DateFormatter, WeekdayLocator, HourLocator, \ DayLocator, MONDAY, timezone from matplotlib.finance import quotes_historical_yahoo, candlestick,\ plot_day_summary, candlestick2 import datetime date1 = datetime.date( 2004, 2, 1) date2 = datetime.date( 2004, 4, 12 ) mondays = WeekdayLocator(MONDAY) # major ticks on the mondays alldays = DayLocator() # minor ticks on the days weekFormatter = DateFormatter('%b %d') # Eg, Jan 12 dayFormatter = DateFormatter('%d') # Eg, 12 quotes = quotes_historical_yahoo( 'INTC', date1, date2) if not quotes: raise SystemExit fig = figure() fig.subplots_adjust(bottom=0.2) ax = fig.add_subplot(111) ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(mondays) ax.xaxis.set_minor_locator(alldays) ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(weekFormatter) #ax.xaxis.set_minor_formatter(dayFormatter) #plot_day_summary(ax, quotes, ticksize=3) candlestick(ax, quotes, width=0.6) ax.xaxis_date() ax.autoscale_view() setp( gca().get_xticklabels(), rotation=45, horizontalalignment='right') show()