TA-Lib : Technical Analysis Library. It is widely used by trading software developers requiring to perform technical analysis of financial market data. Includes 200 indicators such as ADX, MACD, RSI, Stochastic, Bollinger Bands and Candlestick pattern recognition. It's an open-source API for C/C++, Java, Perl, Python, PHP and 100% Managed .NET.
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What do brackets mean in python function inputs?
I was trying to call an external python library 'talib' and one of its functions is giving me an error, 'Bad Parameter' - I thought I was passing in all arguments correctly, but perhaps not?
I think the problem might be in the function definition,…
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Trouble installing ta-lib in python 3.7 on Mac
I am trying to install ta-lib using the below code (after activating my conda environment)
conda install -c quantopian ta-lib
I keep getting this message below, could someone help please
Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
Solving…
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wrong data coming out of ta-lib
I'm trying to use the TA_HT_* family of functions in TA-lib. I've been noticing a very strange thing: depending on how many outputs I ask, I get different values referring to the same inputs. Let me explain:
std::vector…
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Python does not import installed external library
This is a rather weird problem. I'm on Windows and using Anaconda for Python. There is a financial tool library called TA_lib (Technical Analysis Library). Since this library is not officially supported, I had to install a whl version and I got it…
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How to install TA-lib in google colab? !make command fail
i have gone through the stpes mentioned in below answer
How to install TA-lib in google colab?
!wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ta-lib/ta-lib-0.4.0-src.tar.gz
!tar -xzvf ta-lib-0.4.0-src.tar.gz
%cd ta-lib
!./configure…
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How to correctly calculate the BBP ( Bollinger bands percent ) for cryptocurency price?
I try to calculate the BBP ( Bollinger bands percent ) in python by this code. Howevery, my BBP function returns inf or -inf for bbp. Confusingly when I use some coin close price like ETH this function return the correct bbp number (not inf).
This…
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TA-Lib EMA gives inappropriate NaN values
I am using ta-lib for Technical Analysis in Python. Here is a small piece of code I wrote:
SBIN=pd.read_csv('SBIN.NS.csv')
ema=TA.SMA(SBIN.Close,timeperiod=20)
The first 19 values in the ema array are NaN, which are totally understandable. But…
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Linker Error prevents me from initializing TA-LIB in C++
I'm having a problem with TA-LIB in my C++ project.
I just downloaded TA-lib (ta-lib-0.4.0-msvc.zip) and copy-and-pasted c folder to my project folder.
Because of a linker error, I can't go any further.
What I did:
I just downloaded TA-lib…
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Error Installing TA-Lib on Ubuntu 16 Python3
I am on Ubuntu 16:
$ pip -V
pip 18.0 from /home/XYZ-ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pip (python 3.6)
XYZ-ubuntu@XYZubuntu-desktop:~/Desktop/MCF/BitMEX-simple-trading-robot-master$ pip3 -V
pip 18.0 from…
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ta-lib MACD function calculating wrong on closed 100 numbers example
this has been bugging me since the morning. I searched for a solution, but other people mostly had similar problems because of different initial EMAs.
Here, I am using an array of 100 numbers for testing. I calculated emas by hand and with talib…
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Installing TA-lib on Google VM (Ubuntu)
I have experiencing issues with the well-known and troubling installation of TA-lib library. However, even if the issue is well known, I saw just 1 post talking about installation on Google Cloud, and my problem is a little bit different from that…
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How to use TA-lib to create moving average columns on multiple securities?
I am trying to create multiple moving averages using TA-lib to loop through different securities.
I have this dataframe:
AAPL US Equity MSFT US Equity
date
2018-05-31 186.87 …
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Ta-lib and pandas series not working with python
I'm new in Coding, so please be patient with me ;)
This is my code that didn't work, I'm trying several hours to solve it, but every time I got another error.
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import talib.abstract as ta
dfBTCUSD_1h =…
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TA-Lib : Technical Analysis Library, Lookback and unstablePeriod
TA-Lib is a financial/market/OHLC technical analysis library for a Java, C++, .Net, etc. In it are ~158 Technical Functions (EMA, MAMA, MACD, SMA, etc), each has an associate Lookback Function
public static int EmaLookback(int optInTimePeriod)…
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Applying different functions and their arguments using a general functions (Ta-Lib in particular)
would appreciate if you guys can help with a function that takes in a pandas df, a function name, input columns needed and argument/kwargs
import talib
The df is of the form:
Open High Low Close Volume…
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