matplotlib / matplotlib/mplfinance

More easily Plot Trades or Trade Signals

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Description

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
Your addplot.ipynb page is phenomenal and I was able to figure out that I can add scatter points by;
1) Making a numpy array empty/zero
trs = np.zeros((length_to_add, 1))
2) Filling it with Nans
trs.fill(np.nan)
3) Setting my 2 scatter points as I know the index (x) and y values
trs[x] = y
4) Adding this to a dataframe
toplot.insert(6, "trades", trs, True)
5) Then using your well documented addplot:
apdict = mpf.make_addplot(toplot['trades'],scatter=True,secondary_y=False)
mpf.plot(toplot,type='candle',volume=True,addplot=apdict)

**Describe the solution you'd like**
While this is great it took a lot of energy - I'm moving from the plotpy (for the candles!) and there I simply wrote:
plt.scatter(trade_list_idx,trade_list_price,c='b')

Which was simpler than messing around with a dataframe and so on.

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Research direction

Start with addplot.ipynb and the documented make_addplot call shown in the issue, then review the existing plotting entry point for how addplot data is accepted. Done would provide a simpler way to plot trade or signal coordinates directly, without requiring the described NumPy array and dataframe preparation.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
matplotlib, numpy, pandas, python
Domain
data-visualization
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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