Python Charting Stocks/Forex for Technical Analysis Part 1 - Intro and stock price source

Charting Stocks in Python playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Xd3kRHhJI&feature=share&list=PLQVvvaa0QuDcR-u9O8LyLR7URiKuW-XZq Sample code: http://pythonprogramming.net/advanced-matplotlib-graphing-charting-tutorial/ This is the first video in the series for stock price analysis. The purpose of the videos in this series is to teach you how to program your own charting and analysis of stocks or Forex. This is beneficial for you if you plan to do any sort of algorithmic, high-frequency, or any sort of automated trading. Sentdex.com Facebook.com/sentdex Twitter.com/sentdex

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1. So glad I learned Python... now that I'm interested in Trade, this will be pretty fun.
2. Hi sentdex,
   
   I want to become a Data Engineer. From your list of playlist which ones do you recommend? Thanks
3. Do you know of any forex charting software packages for linux?
4. Is this series outdated?
5. Any plans on updating this series with python 3?
6. Gracias katari blanco
7. thanks for your videos :)
8. Thanks for the Python videos. Very informative...but technical analysis is a big bunch of hooey...
9. did you do similar video for bitcoin price data?
10. great video ! I subscribed you ! i think i will build a stockchart web app (for myself) in web2py (a python framework). Thanks
11. I'm using Python 3. I tried importing the code you've provided on your website. How do I go about importing numpy? I can't get lines 5-12 to work :(
12. Hi Richardson, i am not sure if i have seen any tutorial on qqplot. Have you done any qqplot video if you have could you please send me the url
13. Hello Harrison! I am looking at the code of this series at the page http://pythonprogramming.net/advanced-matplotlib-graphing-charting-tutorial/ and more specifically to this line
    
    print str(datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(int(time.time())).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'))
    
    Which I am trying to decompose. Playing on the shell I have understood that we take the integer part (so until the Second precision) of the current time and transform it to a string formatted YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM:SS.
    
    But why do we use str() function if we can invoke strftime() directly to the datetime.datetime class?
14. +sentdex Two questions:
    (1) What version of Python would you recommend for following this tutorial (and the others in the Python Charting tutorial series)?
    (2) As a followup: What version should I use for your other tutorials, especially the beginning Python3 series?
15. These videos are amazing! Thank you so much. One question...
    
    I understand programing, very basically. But I have a very poor understanding of all the 'vocabulary' involved. Do you have any suggestions on a quick reference guide to help me remember and understand all the different variables and commands involved in the Python language? I guess a Python for dummies book might help :P
16. chartapi yahoo doesnt work anymore any other ways to get the data?
17. Hi, I have a question related to plotting.
    Often in Matplotlib, plotted data appears to be normalised. As in, the y axis is set to zero at your first datapoint and the data proceeds from the origin. I can't find anywhere to force the 'de-normalisation' on the y axis in this way. Do you know how to do this? I noticed that you were frustrated about something similar in a later video and thought you could help.
    These series have been immensely helpful, thank you very much.
18. thank you  so mutch for your brillant and help , i'm just don't how building my database of trade volume and value between developpin countries and between developped countries for las 20 years please help me out for my research this my e-mail  hafedh.othmani@yahoo.fr
19. Yes, perfect. I'm so glad i found this! Keep up the good work.
20. Thank you very much. your explantions are clear and very helpful