ChartDirector 5.1 (Python Edition)

Finance Chart (1)




This example demonstrate creating a full-featured finance chart, with HLOC, moving averages, Bollinger band, volume bars, RSI and Momentum indicators.

This example employs the FinanceChart library add-on to allow complex financial charts to be composed easily. In this example, the key steps are:

For simplicity and to allow this example to run without connecting to a real database, a RanTable object is used to simulate the data. RanTable is a ChartDirector utility class used for creating tables with random numbers.

Source Code Listing

[Standalone Version] pythondemo\finance.py
#!/usr/bin/python
from FinanceChart import *

# Create a finance chart demo containing 100 days of data
noOfDays = 100

# To compute moving averages starting from the first day, we need to get extra data
# points before the first day
extraDays = 30

# In this exammple, we use a random number generator utility to simulate the data. We
# set up the random table to create 6 cols x (noOfDays + extraDays) rows, using 9 as
# the seed.
rantable = RanTable(9, 6, noOfDays + extraDays)

# Set the 1st col to be the timeStamp, starting from Sep 4, 2002, with each row
# representing one day, and counting week days only (jump over Sat and Sun)
rantable.setDateCol(0, chartTime(2002, 9, 4), 86400, 1)

# Set the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th columns to be high, low, open and close data. The
# open value starts from 100, and the daily change is random from -5 to 5.
rantable.setHLOCCols(1, 100, -5, 5)

# Set the 6th column as the vol data from 5 to 25 million
rantable.setCol(5, 50000000, 250000000)

# Now we read the data from the table into arrays
timeStamps = rantable.getCol(0)
highData = rantable.getCol(1)
lowData = rantable.getCol(2)
openData = rantable.getCol(3)
closeData = rantable.getCol(4)
volData = rantable.getCol(5)

# Create a FinanceChart object of width 640 pixels
c = FinanceChart(640)

# Add a title to the chart
c.addTitle("Finance Chart Demonstration")

# Set the data into the finance chart object
c.setData(timeStamps, highData, lowData, openData, closeData, volData, extraDays)

# Add the main chart with 240 pixels in height
c.addMainChart(240)

# Add a 5 period simple moving average to the main chart, using brown color
c.addSimpleMovingAvg(5, 0x663300)

# Add a 20 period simple moving average to the main chart, using purple color
c.addSimpleMovingAvg(20, 0x9900ff)

# Add HLOC symbols to the main chart, using green/red for up/down days
c.addHLOC(0x008000, 0xcc0000)

# Add 20 days bollinger band to the main chart, using light blue (9999ff) as the
# border and semi-transparent blue (c06666ff) as the fill color
c.addBollingerBand(20, 2, 0x9999ff, 0xc06666ff)

# Add a 75 pixels volume bars sub-chart to the bottom of the main chart, using
# green/red/grey for up/down/flat days
c.addVolBars(75, 0x99ff99, 0xff9999, 0x808080)

# Append a 14-days RSI indicator chart (75 pixels high) after the main chart. The
# main RSI line is purple (800080). Set threshold region to +/- 20 (that is, RSI = 50
# +/- 25). The upper/lower threshold regions will be filled with red (ff0000)/blue
# (0000ff).
c.addRSI(75, 14, 0x800080, 20, 0xff0000, 0x0000ff)

# Append a 12-days momentum indicator chart (75 pixels high) using blue (0000ff)
# color.
c.addMomentum(75, 12, 0x0000ff)

# Output the chart
c.makeChart("finance.png")

[CGI Version] pythondemo_cgi\finance.py
#!/usr/bin/python
from FinanceChart import *

# Create a finance chart demo containing 100 days of data
noOfDays = 100

# To compute moving averages starting from the first day, we need to get extra data
# points before the first day
extraDays = 30

# In this exammple, we use a random number generator utility to simulate the data. We
# set up the random table to create 6 cols x (noOfDays + extraDays) rows, using 9 as
# the seed.
rantable = RanTable(9, 6, noOfDays + extraDays)

# Set the 1st col to be the timeStamp, starting from Sep 4, 2002, with each row
# representing one day, and counting week days only (jump over Sat and Sun)
rantable.setDateCol(0, chartTime(2002, 9, 4), 86400, 1)

# Set the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th columns to be high, low, open and close data. The
# open value starts from 100, and the daily change is random from -5 to 5.
rantable.setHLOCCols(1, 100, -5, 5)

# Set the 6th column as the vol data from 5 to 25 million
rantable.setCol(5, 50000000, 250000000)

# Now we read the data from the table into arrays
timeStamps = rantable.getCol(0)
highData = rantable.getCol(1)
lowData = rantable.getCol(2)
openData = rantable.getCol(3)
closeData = rantable.getCol(4)
volData = rantable.getCol(5)

# Create a FinanceChart object of width 640 pixels
c = FinanceChart(640)

# Add a title to the chart
c.addTitle("Finance Chart Demonstration")

# Set the data into the finance chart object
c.setData(timeStamps, highData, lowData, openData, closeData, volData, extraDays)

# Add the main chart with 240 pixels in height
c.addMainChart(240)

# Add a 5 period simple moving average to the main chart, using brown color
c.addSimpleMovingAvg(5, 0x663300)

# Add a 20 period simple moving average to the main chart, using purple color
c.addSimpleMovingAvg(20, 0x9900ff)

# Add HLOC symbols to the main chart, using green/red for up/down days
c.addHLOC(0x008000, 0xcc0000)

# Add 20 days bollinger band to the main chart, using light blue (9999ff) as the
# border and semi-transparent blue (c06666ff) as the fill color
c.addBollingerBand(20, 2, 0x9999ff, 0xc06666ff)

# Add a 75 pixels volume bars sub-chart to the bottom of the main chart, using
# green/red/grey for up/down/flat days
c.addVolBars(75, 0x99ff99, 0xff9999, 0x808080)

# Append a 14-days RSI indicator chart (75 pixels high) after the main chart. The
# main RSI line is purple (800080). Set threshold region to +/- 20 (that is, RSI = 50
# +/- 25). The upper/lower threshold regions will be filled with red (ff0000)/blue
# (0000ff).
c.addRSI(75, 14, 0x800080, 20, 0xff0000, 0x0000ff)

# Append a 12-days momentum indicator chart (75 pixels high) using blue (0000ff)
# color.
c.addMomentum(75, 12, 0x0000ff)

# Output the chart
print("Content-type: image/png\n")
binaryPrint(c.makeChart2(PNG))