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This is a Python wrapper forTA-LIB based on Cythoninstead of SWIG. From the homepage:
TA-Lib is widely used by trading software developers requiring to performtechnical analysis of financial market data.
- Includes 150+ indicators such as ADX, MACD, RSI, Stochastic, BollingerBands, etc.
- Candlestick pattern recognition
- Open-source API for C/C++, Java, Perl, Python and 100% Managed .NET
The original Python bindings included with TA-Lib useSWIG which unfortunately are difficult to install andaren't as efficient as they could be. Therefore this project usesCython andNumpy to efficientlyand cleanly bind to TA-Lib -- producing results 2-4 times faster than theSWIG interface.
In addition, this project also supports the use of thePolars andPandaslibraries.
The upstream TA-Lib C library released version 0.6.1 and changed the libraryname to-lta-lib
from-lta_lib
. After trying to support both viaautodetect and having some issues, we have decided to currently support threefeature branches:
ta-lib-python
0.4.x (supportsta-lib
0.4.x andnumpy
1)ta-lib-python
0.5.x (supportsta-lib
0.4.x andnumpy
2)ta-lib-python
0.6.x (supportsta-lib
0.6.x andnumpy
2)
You can install from PyPI:
$ python -m pip install TA-Lib
Or checkout the sources and runsetup.py
yourself:
$ python setup.py install
It also appears possible to install viaConda Forge:
$ conda install -c conda-forge ta-lib
To use TA-Lib for python, you need to have theTA-Libalready installed. You should probably follow theirinstallationdirections for your platform, but somesuggestions are included below for reference.
Some Conda Forge users have reported success installing the underlying TA-Lib Clibrary usingthe libta-lib package:
$ conda install -c conda-forge libta-lib
You can simply install using Homebrew:
$ brew install ta-lib
If you are using Apple Silicon, such as the M1 processors, and building mixedarchitecture Homebrew projects, you might want to make sure it's being builtfor your architecture:
$ arch -arm64 brew install ta-lib
And perhaps you can set these before installing withpip
:
$ export TA_INCLUDE_PATH="$(brew --prefix ta-lib)/include"$ export TA_LIBRARY_PATH="$(brew --prefix ta-lib)/lib"
You might also find this helpful, particularly if you have tried severaldifferent installations without success:
$ your-arm64-python -m pip install --no-cache-dir ta-lib
For 64-bit Windows, the easiest way is to get theexecutable installer:
- Downloadta-lib-0.6.4-windows-x86_64.msi.
- Run the Installer or run
msiexec
from the command-line.
Alternatively, if you prefer to get the libraries without installing, orwould like to use the 32-bit version:
- Intel/AMD 64-bitta-lib-0.6.4-windows-x86_64.zip
- Intel/AMD 32-bitta-lib-0.6.4-windows-x86_32.zip
Downloadta-lib-0.6.4-src.tar.gzand:
$ tar -xzf ta-lib-0.6.4-src.tar.gz$ cd ta-lib-0.6.4/$ ./configure --prefix=/usr$ make$ sudo make install
If you build
TA-Lib
usingmake -jX
it will fail but that's OK!Simply rerunmake -jX
followed by[sudo] make install
.
Note: if your directory path includes spaces, the installation will probablyfail withNo such file or directory
errors.
If you get a warning that looks like this:
setup.py:79: UserWarning: Cannot find ta-lib library, installation may fail.warnings.warn('Cannot find ta-lib library, installation may fail.')
This typically meanssetup.py
can't find the underlyingTA-Lib
library, a dependency which needs to be installed.
If you installed the underlyingTA-Lib
library with a custom prefix(e.g., with./configure --prefix=$PREFIX
), then when you go to installthis python wrapper you can specify additional search paths to find thelibrary and include files for the underlyingTA-Lib
library using theTA_LIBRARY_PATH
andTA_INCLUDE_PATH
environment variables:
$export TA_LIBRARY_PATH=$PREFIX/lib$export TA_INCLUDE_PATH=$PREFIX/include$ python setup.py install# or pip install ta-lib
Sometimes installation will produce build errors like this:
talib/_ta_lib.c:601:10: fatal error: ta-lib/ta_defs.h: No such file or directory 601 | #include "ta-lib/ta_defs.h" | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~compilation terminated.
or:
common.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol TA_SetUnstablePeriodcommon.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol TA_Shutdowncommon.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol TA_Initializecommon.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol TA_GetUnstablePeriodcommon.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol TA_GetVersionString
This typically means that it can't find the underlyingTA-Lib
library, adependency which needs to be installed. On Windows, this could be caused byinstalling the 32-bit binary distribution of the underlyingTA-Lib
library,but trying to use it with 64-bit Python.
Sometimes installation will fail with errors like this:
talib/common.c:8:22: fatal error: pyconfig.h: No such file or directory #include "pyconfig.h" ^compilation terminated.error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1
This typically means that you need the Python headers, and should runsomething like:
$ sudo apt-get install python3-dev
Sometimes building the underlyingTA-Lib
library has errors runningmake
that look like this:
../libtool: line 1717: cd: .libs/libta_lib.lax/libta_abstract.a: No such file or directorymake[2]: *** [libta_lib.la] Error 1make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
This might mean that the directory path to the underlyingTA-Lib
libraryhas spaces in the directory names. Try putting it in a path that does not haveany spaces and trying again.
Sometimes you might get this error runningsetup.py
:
/usr/include/limits.h:26:10: fatal error: bits/libc-header-start.h: No such file or directory#include <bits/libc-header-start.h> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is likely an issue with trying to compile for 32-bit platform butwithout the appropriate headers. You might find some success looking at thefirst answer tothis question.
If you get an error on macOS like this:
code signature in <141BC883-189B-322C-AE90-CBF6B5206F67>'python3.9/site-packages/talib/_ta_lib.cpython-39-darwin.so' not valid foruse in process: Trying to load an unsigned library)
You might look atthis questionand usexcrun codesign
to fix it.
If you wonder whySTOCHRSI
gives you different results than you expect,probably you wantSTOCH
applied toRSI
, which is a little differentthan theSTOCHRSI
which isSTOCHF
applied toRSI
:
>>>importtalib>>>importnumpyasnp>>>c=np.random.randn(100)# this is the library function>>>k,d=talib.STOCHRSI(c)# this produces the same result, calling STOCHF>>>rsi=talib.RSI(c)>>>k,d=talib.STOCHF(rsi,rsi,rsi)# you might want this instead, calling STOCH>>>rsi=talib.RSI(c)>>>k,d=talib.STOCH(rsi,rsi,rsi)
If the build appears to hang, you might be running on a VM with not enoughmemory -- try 1 GB or 2 GB.
It has also been reported that using a swapfile could help, for example:
$ sudo fallocate -l 1G /swapfile$ sudo chmod 600 /swapfile$ sudo mkswap /swapfile$ sudo swapon /swapfile
If you get "permission denied" errors such as this, you might need to giveyour user access to the location where the underlying TA-Lib C library isinstalled -- or install it to a user-accessible location.
talib/_ta_lib.c:747:28: fatal error: /usr/include/ta-lib/ta_defs.h: Permission denied #include "ta-lib/ta-defs.h" ^compilation terminatederror: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
If you're having trouble compiling the underlying TA-Lib C library on ARM64,you might need to configure it with an explicit build type before runningmake
andmake install
, for example:
$ ./configure --build=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu
This is caused by oldconfig.guess
file, so another way to solve this isto copy a newer version of config.guess into the underlying TA-Lib C librarysources:
$ cp /usr/share/automake-1.16/config.guess /path/to/extracted/ta-lib/config.guess
And then re-run configure:
$ ./configure
If you're having trouble usingPyInstaller andget an error that looks like this:
...site-packages\PyInstaller\loader\pyimod03_importers.py", line 493, in exec_module exec(bytecode, module.__dict__) File "talib\__init__.py", line 72, in <module>ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'talib.stream'
Then, perhaps you can use the--hidden-import
argument to fix this:
$ pyinstaller --hidden-import talib.stream "replaceToYourFileName.py"
If you want to usenumpy<2
, then you should useta-lib<0.5
.
If you want to usenumpy>=2
, then you should useta-lib>=0.5
.
If you have trouble getting the code autocompletions to work in VisualStudio Code, a suggestion was made to look for thePython
extensionsettings, and an option forLanguage Server
, and change it fromDefault
(which meansPylance if it is installed, Jedi otherwise
, tomanually setJedi
and the completions should work. It is possible thatyou might need toinstall itmanually for this towork.
Similar to TA-Lib, the Function API provides a lightweight wrapper of theexposed TA-Lib indicators.
Each function returns an output array and have default values for theirparameters, unless specified as keyword arguments. Typically, these functionswill have an initial "lookback" period (a required number of observationsbefore an output is generated) set toNaN
.
For convenience, the Function API supports bothnumpy.ndarray
andpandas.Series
andpolars.Series
inputs.
All of the following examples use the Function API:
importnumpyasnpimporttalibclose=np.random.random(100)
Calculate a simple moving average of the close prices:
output=talib.SMA(close)
Calculating bollinger bands, with triple exponential moving average:
fromtalibimportMA_Typeupper,middle,lower=talib.BBANDS(close,matype=MA_Type.T3)
Calculating momentum of the close prices, with a time period of 5:
output=talib.MOM(close,timeperiod=5)
The underlying TA-Lib C library handles NaN's in a sometimes surprising mannerby typically propagating NaN's to the end of the output, for example:
>>>c=np.array([1.0,2.0,3.0,np.nan,4.0,5.0,6.0])>>>talib.SMA(c,3)array([nan,nan,2.,nan,nan,nan,nan])
You can compare that to a Pandas rolling mean, where their approach is tooutput NaN until enough "lookback" values are observed to generate new outputs:
>>>c=pandas.Series([1.0,2.0,3.0,np.nan,4.0,5.0,6.0])>>>c.rolling(3).mean()0NaN1NaN22.03NaN4NaN5NaN65.0dtype:float64
If you're already familiar with using the function API, you should feel rightat home using the Abstract API.
Every function takes a collection of named inputs, either adict
ofnumpy.ndarray
orpandas.Series
orpolars.Series
, or apandas.DataFrame
orpolars.DataFrame
. If apandas.DataFrame
orpolars.DataFrame
is provided, the output is returned as the same typewith named output columns.
For example, inputs could be provided for the typical "OHLCV" data:
importnumpyasnp# note that all ndarrays must be the same length!inputs= {'open':np.random.random(100),'high':np.random.random(100),'low':np.random.random(100),'close':np.random.random(100),'volume':np.random.random(100)}
Functions can either be imported directly or instantiated by name:
fromtalibimportabstract# directlySMA=abstract.SMA# or by nameSMA=abstract.Function('sma')
From there, calling functions is basically the same as the function API:
fromtalib.abstractimport*# uses close prices (default)output=SMA(inputs,timeperiod=25)# uses open pricesoutput=SMA(inputs,timeperiod=25,price='open')# uses close prices (default)upper,middle,lower=BBANDS(inputs,20,2.0,2.0)# uses high, low, close (default)slowk,slowd=STOCH(inputs,5,3,0,3,0)# uses high, low, close by default# uses high, low, open insteadslowk,slowd=STOCH(inputs,5,3,0,3,0,prices=['high','low','open'])
An experimental Streaming API was added that allows users to compute the latestvalue of an indicator. This can be faster than using the Function API, forexample in an application that receives streaming data, and wants to know justthe most recent updated indicator value.
importtalibfromtalibimportstreamclose=np.random.random(100)# the Function APIoutput=talib.SMA(close)# the Streaming APIlatest=stream.SMA(close)# the latest value is the same as the last output valueassert (output[-1]-latest)<0.00001
We can show all the TA functions supported by TA-Lib, either as alist
oras adict
sorted by group (e.g. "Overlap Studies", "Momentum Indicators",etc):
importtalib# list of functionsfornameintalib.get_functions():print(name)# dict of functions by groupforgroup,namesintalib.get_function_groups().items():print(group)fornameinnames:print(f"{name}")
- Overlap Studies
- Momentum Indicators
- Volume Indicators
- Volatility Indicators
- Price Transform
- Cycle Indicators
- Pattern Recognition
BBANDS Bollinger BandsDEMA Double Exponential Moving AverageEMA Exponential Moving AverageHT_TRENDLINE Hilbert Transform - Instantaneous TrendlineKAMA Kaufman Adaptive Moving AverageMA Moving averageMAMA MESA Adaptive Moving AverageMAVP Moving average with variable periodMIDPOINT MidPoint over periodMIDPRICE Midpoint Price over periodSAR Parabolic SARSAREXT Parabolic SAR - ExtendedSMA Simple Moving AverageT3 Triple Exponential Moving Average (T3)TEMA Triple Exponential Moving AverageTRIMA Triangular Moving AverageWMA Weighted Moving Average
ADX Average Directional Movement IndexADXR Average Directional Movement Index RatingAPO Absolute Price OscillatorAROON AroonAROONOSC Aroon OscillatorBOP Balance Of PowerCCI Commodity Channel IndexCMO Chande Momentum OscillatorDX Directional Movement IndexMACD Moving Average Convergence/DivergenceMACDEXT MACD with controllable MA typeMACDFIX Moving Average Convergence/Divergence Fix 12/26MFI Money Flow IndexMINUS_DI Minus Directional IndicatorMINUS_DM Minus Directional MovementMOM MomentumPLUS_DI Plus Directional IndicatorPLUS_DM Plus Directional MovementPPO Percentage Price OscillatorROC Rate of change : ((price/prevPrice)-1)*100ROCP Rate of change Percentage: (price-prevPrice)/prevPriceROCR Rate of change ratio: (price/prevPrice)ROCR100 Rate of change ratio 100 scale: (price/prevPrice)*100RSI Relative Strength IndexSTOCH StochasticSTOCHF Stochastic FastSTOCHRSI Stochastic Relative Strength IndexTRIX 1-day Rate-Of-Change (ROC) of a Triple Smooth EMAULTOSC Ultimate OscillatorWILLR Williams' %R
AD Chaikin A/D LineADOSC Chaikin A/D OscillatorOBV On Balance Volume
HT_DCPERIOD Hilbert Transform - Dominant Cycle PeriodHT_DCPHASE Hilbert Transform - Dominant Cycle PhaseHT_PHASOR Hilbert Transform - Phasor ComponentsHT_SINE Hilbert Transform - SineWaveHT_TRENDMODE Hilbert Transform - Trend vs Cycle Mode
AVGPRICE Average PriceMEDPRICE Median PriceTYPPRICE Typical PriceWCLPRICE Weighted Close Price
ATR Average True RangeNATR Normalized Average True RangeTRANGE True Range
CDL2CROWS Two CrowsCDL3BLACKCROWS Three Black CrowsCDL3INSIDE Three Inside Up/DownCDL3LINESTRIKE Three-Line StrikeCDL3OUTSIDE Three Outside Up/DownCDL3STARSINSOUTH Three Stars In The SouthCDL3WHITESOLDIERS Three Advancing White SoldiersCDLABANDONEDBABY Abandoned BabyCDLADVANCEBLOCK Advance BlockCDLBELTHOLD Belt-holdCDLBREAKAWAY BreakawayCDLCLOSINGMARUBOZU Closing MarubozuCDLCONCEALBABYSWALL Concealing Baby SwallowCDLCOUNTERATTACK CounterattackCDLDARKCLOUDCOVER Dark Cloud CoverCDLDOJI DojiCDLDOJISTAR Doji StarCDLDRAGONFLYDOJI Dragonfly DojiCDLENGULFING Engulfing PatternCDLEVENINGDOJISTAR Evening Doji StarCDLEVENINGSTAR Evening StarCDLGAPSIDESIDEWHITE Up/Down-gap side-by-side white linesCDLGRAVESTONEDOJI Gravestone DojiCDLHAMMER HammerCDLHANGINGMAN Hanging ManCDLHARAMI Harami PatternCDLHARAMICROSS Harami Cross PatternCDLHIGHWAVE High-Wave CandleCDLHIKKAKE Hikkake PatternCDLHIKKAKEMOD Modified Hikkake PatternCDLHOMINGPIGEON Homing PigeonCDLIDENTICAL3CROWS Identical Three CrowsCDLINNECK In-Neck PatternCDLINVERTEDHAMMER Inverted HammerCDLKICKING KickingCDLKICKINGBYLENGTH Kicking - bull/bear determined by the longer marubozuCDLLADDERBOTTOM Ladder BottomCDLLONGLEGGEDDOJI Long Legged DojiCDLLONGLINE Long Line CandleCDLMARUBOZU MarubozuCDLMATCHINGLOW Matching LowCDLMATHOLD Mat HoldCDLMORNINGDOJISTAR Morning Doji StarCDLMORNINGSTAR Morning StarCDLONNECK On-Neck PatternCDLPIERCING Piercing PatternCDLRICKSHAWMAN Rickshaw ManCDLRISEFALL3METHODS Rising/Falling Three MethodsCDLSEPARATINGLINES Separating LinesCDLSHOOTINGSTAR Shooting StarCDLSHORTLINE Short Line CandleCDLSPINNINGTOP Spinning TopCDLSTALLEDPATTERN Stalled PatternCDLSTICKSANDWICH Stick SandwichCDLTAKURI Takuri (Dragonfly Doji with very long lower shadow)CDLTASUKIGAP Tasuki GapCDLTHRUSTING Thrusting PatternCDLTRISTAR Tristar PatternCDLUNIQUE3RIVER Unique 3 RiverCDLUPSIDEGAP2CROWS Upside Gap Two CrowsCDLXSIDEGAP3METHODS Upside/Downside Gap Three Methods
BETA BetaCORREL Pearson's Correlation Coefficient (r)LINEARREG Linear RegressionLINEARREG_ANGLE Linear Regression AngleLINEARREG_INTERCEPT Linear Regression InterceptLINEARREG_SLOPE Linear Regression SlopeSTDDEV Standard DeviationTSF Time Series ForecastVAR Variance
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