Setting ticks to 30 minutes on x axis in mplfinance creates too frequent ticks-CodePudding

I am trying to plot intraday E-mini data for one day. Datetime index with usual OHLC data and 5 mins candles. I would like to display x axis ticks and corresponding grid lines every half an hour. Somehow I get way above the desired number of ticks (see below).

Also, there is a recurrent message as following:

Locator attempting to generate 5807 ticks ([-6.470138888888889, ..., 114.48819444444445]), which exceeds Locator.MAXTICKS (1000).

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

fig, axlist = mpl.plot(
    df[['open', 'high', 'low', 'close', 'volume']].loc['2022-6-9 6:45':'2022-6-9 15:45'],
    type="candle", 
    title = "Micro E-mini S&P 500 Price",  
    style="yahoo", volume=True, figratio=(12.00, 5.75),
    returnfig=True
    )

# axlist[0].yaxis.set_major_formatter(FormatStrFormatter('$%.2f'))
axlist[0].xaxis.set_major_locator(mdates.MinuteLocator(interval=30))

mpl.show()

CodePudding user response：

I ran a test and confirmed my hypothesis (see my comment under the question) ... indeed setting kwarg show_nontrading=True in the call to mpf.plot() will allow the axlist[0].xaxis.set_major_locator(mdates.MinuteLocator(interval=30)) to work correctly.

However it may not set the ticks on exactly the 30 minute mark, rather each tick will be 30 minutes from the previous tick.

It appears that the way to set the ticks exactly on the 00 and 30 minute mark is, instead of interval=30 say byminute=[0,30], thus:

axlist[0].xaxis.set_major_locator(mdates.MinuteLocator(byminute=[0,30]))