matplotlib / matplotlib/mplfinance
Feature Request: Alternating Background Color
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enhancement
- Dominant language
- Python
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Description
This can be achieved in matplotlib using axvspan, but does not appear to be available in mplfinance. When plotting both the stock price and volume, it's difficult to match the two up, so the ability to switch shadings every other candle (from white to light grey) would improve the readability of the charts.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing mplfinance's plotting entry points and matplotlib's axvspan behavior to understand how candle positions map across price and volume panels. The work is done when alternating white and light-grey shading can be applied every other candle and remains aligned across both panels.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- matplotlib, python
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100