Implementing Subplots to our Chart with Matplotlib

In this Matplotlib tutorial, we'll be handling our previous tutorial's code, and implementing the subplot configuration from the previous tutorial. Our starting code:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.dates as mdates
import matplotlib.ticker as mticker
from matplotlib.finance import candlestick_ohlc
from matplotlib import style

import numpy as np
import urllib
import datetime as dt

style.use('fivethirtyeight')
print(plt.style.available)

print(plt.__file__)


def bytespdate2num(fmt, encoding='utf-8'):
    strconverter = mdates.strpdate2num(fmt)
    def bytesconverter(b):
        s = b.decode(encoding)
        return strconverter(s)
    return bytesconverter
    

def graph_data(stock):

    fig = plt.figure()
    ax1 = plt.subplot2grid((1,1), (0,0))
    
    stock_price_url = 'http://chartapi.finance.yahoo.com/instrument/1.0/'+stock+'/chartdata;type=quote;range=1m/csv'
    source_code = urllib.request.urlopen(stock_price_url).read().decode()
    stock_data = []
    split_source = source_code.split('\n')
    for line in split_source:
        split_line = line.split(',')
        if len(split_line) == 6:
            if 'values' not in line and 'labels' not in line:
                stock_data.append(line)

    
    date, closep, highp, lowp, openp, volume = np.loadtxt(stock_data,
                                                          delimiter=',',
                                                          unpack=True,
                                                          converters={0: bytespdate2num('%Y%m%d')})

    x = 0
    y = len(date)
    ohlc = []

    while x < y:
        append_me = date[x], openp[x], highp[x], lowp[x], closep[x], volume[x]
        ohlc.append(append_me)
        x+=1


    candlestick_ohlc(ax1, ohlc, width=0.4, colorup='#77d879', colordown='#db3f3f')
  
    for label in ax1.xaxis.get_ticklabels():
        label.set_rotation(45)

    ax1.xaxis.set_major_formatter(mdates.DateFormatter('%Y-%m-%d'))
    ax1.xaxis.set_major_locator(mticker.MaxNLocator(10))
    ax1.grid(True)
    
    bbox_props = dict(boxstyle='round',fc='w', ec='k',lw=1)
    
    ax1.annotate(str(closep[-1]), (date[-1], closep[-1]),
                 xytext = (date[-1]+4, closep[-1]), bbox=bbox_props)

    
##    # Annotation example with arrow
##    ax1.annotate('Bad News!',(date[11],highp[11]),
##                 xytext=(0.8, 0.9), textcoords='axes fraction',
##                 arrowprops = dict(facecolor='grey',color='grey'))
##
##    
##    # Font dict example
##    font_dict = {'family':'serif',
##                 'color':'darkred',
##                 'size':15}
##    # Hard coded text 
##    ax1.text(date[10], closep[1],'Text Example', fontdict=font_dict)

    plt.xlabel('Date')
    plt.ylabel('Price')
    plt.title(stock)
    #plt.legend()
    plt.subplots_adjust(left=0.11, bottom=0.24, right=0.90, top=0.90, wspace=0.2, hspace=0)
    plt.show()


graph_data('EBAY')

The first major change is to modify the axis definitions:

    ax1 = plt.subplot2grid((6,1), (0,0), rowspan=1, colspan=1)
    plt.title(stock)
    ax2 = plt.subplot2grid((6,1), (1,0), rowspan=4, colspan=1)
    plt.xlabel('Date')
    plt.ylabel('Price')
    ax3 = plt.subplot2grid((6,1), (5,0), rowspan=1, colspan=1)

Now, ax2 is where we'll actually be plotting our stock price data. The top and bottom charts will serve as indicator information shortly.

Further down in the code where we plot data, we need to change ax1 to ax1:

    candlestick_ohlc(ax2, ohlc, width=0.4, colorup='#77d879', colordown='#db3f3f')
  
    for label in ax2.xaxis.get_ticklabels():
        label.set_rotation(45)

    ax2.xaxis.set_major_formatter(mdates.DateFormatter('%Y-%m-%d'))
    ax2.xaxis.set_major_locator(mticker.MaxNLocator(10))
    ax2.grid(True)
    
    bbox_props = dict(boxstyle='round',fc='w', ec='k',lw=1)
    
    ax2.annotate(str(closep[-1]), (date[-1], closep[-1]),
                 xytext = (date[-1]+4, closep[-1]), bbox=bbox_props)

With these changes, the full code should be:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.dates as mdates
import matplotlib.ticker as mticker
from matplotlib.finance import candlestick_ohlc
from matplotlib import style

import numpy as np
import urllib
import datetime as dt

style.use('fivethirtyeight')
print(plt.style.available)

print(plt.__file__)


def bytespdate2num(fmt, encoding='utf-8'):
    strconverter = mdates.strpdate2num(fmt)
    def bytesconverter(b):
        s = b.decode(encoding)
        return strconverter(s)
    return bytesconverter
    

def graph_data(stock):

    fig = plt.figure()
    ax1 = plt.subplot2grid((6,1), (0,0), rowspan=1, colspan=1)
    plt.title(stock)
    ax2 = plt.subplot2grid((6,1), (1,0), rowspan=4, colspan=1)
    plt.xlabel('Date')
    plt.ylabel('Price')
    ax3 = plt.subplot2grid((6,1), (5,0), rowspan=1, colspan=1)
    
    
    stock_price_url = 'http://chartapi.finance.yahoo.com/instrument/1.0/'+stock+'/chartdata;type=quote;range=1m/csv'
    source_code = urllib.request.urlopen(stock_price_url).read().decode()
    stock_data = []
    split_source = source_code.split('\n')
    for line in split_source:
        split_line = line.split(',')
        if len(split_line) == 6:
            if 'values' not in line and 'labels' not in line:
                stock_data.append(line)

    
    date, closep, highp, lowp, openp, volume = np.loadtxt(stock_data,
                                                          delimiter=',',
                                                          unpack=True,
                                                          converters={0: bytespdate2num('%Y%m%d')})

    x = 0
    y = len(date)
    ohlc = []

    while x < y:
        append_me = date[x], openp[x], highp[x], lowp[x], closep[x], volume[x]
        ohlc.append(append_me)
        x+=1


    candlestick_ohlc(ax2, ohlc, width=0.4, colorup='#77d879', colordown='#db3f3f')
  
    for label in ax2.xaxis.get_ticklabels():
        label.set_rotation(45)

    ax2.xaxis.set_major_formatter(mdates.DateFormatter('%Y-%m-%d'))
    ax2.xaxis.set_major_locator(mticker.MaxNLocator(10))
    ax2.grid(True)
    
    bbox_props = dict(boxstyle='round',fc='w', ec='k',lw=1)
    
    ax2.annotate(str(closep[-1]), (date[-1], closep[-1]),
                 xytext = (date[-1]+4, closep[-1]), bbox=bbox_props)

    
##    # Annotation example with arrow
##    ax1.annotate('Bad News!',(date[11],highp[11]),
##                 xytext=(0.8, 0.9), textcoords='axes fraction',
##                 arrowprops = dict(facecolor='grey',color='grey'))
##
##    
##    # Font dict example
##    font_dict = {'family':'serif',
##                 'color':'darkred',
##                 'size':15}
##    # Hard coded text 
##    ax1.text(date[10], closep[1],'Text Example', fontdict=font_dict)

    
    #
    #plt.legend()
    plt.subplots_adjust(left=0.11, bottom=0.24, right=0.90, top=0.90, wspace=0.2, hspace=0)
    plt.show()


graph_data('EBAY')

The resulting graph should be:

The next tutorial: More indicator data with Matplotlib