Wickly Documentation

Interactive candlestick chart plotting with PyQt6 — a drop-in replacement for mplfinance with rich interactivity.

import wickly

wickly.plot(df, type='candle', volume=True, mav=(10, 20), style='yahoo')

Key Features

  • 📈 Chart types — Candlestick, OHLC bar, line, and hollow-candle

  • 📊 Volume subplot — Optional volume panel below the price chart

  • 🔍 Zoom & pan — Mouse-wheel zoom and click-drag panning

  • 🎯 Crosshair — Live OHLC / volume readout under the cursor

  • 📐 Moving averages — Overlay any number of MAs with the mav parameter

  • 🎨 Styles — Six built-in themes plus make_style() for custom palettes

  • 🖼️ Addplot — Overlay custom line & scatter data

  • 💾 Export — savefig support (PNG / JPG / BMP)

  • 🔁 Embedding — returnfig mode for integration into your own PyQt6 app

  • ✅ mplfinance-compatible — Familiar function signatures

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