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 are the numbers such as -100, +100, -200, +200 and etc, when using ta-lib in Python?
I'm using ta-lib for pattern recognition of candlesticks, however, I'm getting different numbers based on the pattern function I've used. Is there any reference what these numbers represent?

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install ta-lib in windows 10 under Anaconda
I just tried to install ta-lib in windows 10
using anaconda conda install -c r2d2 ta-lib
and when I do import talib in ipython notebook, I get:
ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
in ()
----> 1…

user6057786
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Rolling Weekly Technical Indicator using talib, python and pandas.
******** updated the question, better code example and now doing it with list comprehension **********
I'm trying to get weekly rolling technical indicators using pandas and talib.
By "weekly rolling" I mean that if for example today is thursday,…

Gabriel
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talib ADX function error
Using python pandas dataframe (d) downloaded from yahoo finance which has the format:
Date,Open,High,Low,Close,Volume,Adj Close
2015-01-13,1.290,1.290,1.200,1.225,421600,1.225
I can successfully use talib functions like this:
talib.abstract.EMA(d,…

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TA-lib: SMA and EMA values are coming out equal for all periods
When I calculate the SMA and EMA values using TA-lib for any period, the values are always equal. Does anyone else has any experience on this? Thanks.
Code for Ema (I just replace Core.Ema with Core.Sma for SMA):
double[] output = new…

Chairman Meow
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how to install Ta-lib with python 3.10/3.11 in Windows?
Following this post:
how to install Ta-lib with python 3.11 in Windows?
I did all the steps:
-got zip file
and nmake with VS
but, when I do 'pip install ta-lib' I got:
Collecting TA-Lib
Using cached TA-Lib-0.4.27.tar.gz (266 kB)
Installing build…

amms
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talib.PLUS_DM - shouldn't the return value be bounded by [0, 100]?
Why does this example return values out of the range [0, 100] for PLUS_DM, and why is it sensitive to scaling the values? I would assume with the ratio that changes of magnitude would cancel out.
import numpy as np
import talib
highs=…

Joe
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"ImportError: libta_lib.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" by restart the google colab
I can successfully install the ta-lib in google colab as follow:
import os, sys
from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/gdrive')
nb_path = '/content/notebooks'
os.symlink('/content/gdrive/My Drive/Colab Notebooks',…

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TA-LIB module has no attribute 'add_all_ta_features'
I'm trying to use TA-lib for a hobby project. I found some code-snippets as reference telling me to do the following;
import talib as ta
ta.add_all_ta_features("some parameters here")
i get the following error when running the…

Iceman
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Python EMA calculation using talib and pandas ewn different from tradingview
I'm trying to get EMA using Talib and pandas, but they are totally different from tradingview. I don't know what is wrong.
My code is like this:
import pandas as pd
import requests
import talib
pd.set_option('display.width',…

One boy
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ta-lib library ATR calculate wrong
I wrote a simple program for calculate daily ATR with ta-lib library. I compare result with ATR indicator in Tradingview and them are very different.
Code is:
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def ohlcv(symbol, tf, bars_back=MAX_BAR_BACK):
ohlc = exchange.fetch_ohlcv(symbol,…

unixi
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Python: Can't install TA-lib in Oracle ARM64 VM ubuntu 20.04
The steps I used are below
apt install -y build-essential automake
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ta-lib/ta-lib-0.4.0-src.tar.gz
tar zxvf ta-lib-0.4.0-src.tar.gz
cd ta-lib
cp /usr/share/automake-1.16/config.guess .
./configure…

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Unable to install Python package Ta-Lib using a Dockerfile
Here is the error that I'm getting when I try to install Ta-Lib in Cloud Run using a Dockerfile
error: subprocess-exited-with-error
× Building wheel for ta-lib (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [27 lines of…

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How to install Talib (on windows machine) in colab (2022-12)?
Yesterday I tried to run a python code which contains a talib package. The package failed to run in colab, ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'talib'
I used this code, which normally worked, but after yesterday it didn't.
url =…

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ta-lib replit python install problem, ERROR: No matching distribution found for talib-binary
I use it on my windows machine by downloading its binary. I also use it in Heroku from its herokus build pack. I don't know what operating system replit use. But I try every possible commed like.
!pip install ta-lib
!pip install talib-binary
It's…

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