Time for action – plotting stock volume
Stock volume varies a lot, so let's plot it on a logarithmic scale. First, we need to download historical data from Yahoo Finance, extract the dates and volume, create locators and a date formatter, and create the figure and add it to a subplot. We already went through these steps in the previous Time for action section, so we will skip them here.
Plot the volume using a logarithmic scale:
plt.semilogy(dates, volume)
Now, set the locators and format the x axis as dates. Instructions for these steps can be found in the previous Time for action section as well.
The stock volume using a logarithmic scale for DISH appears as follows:
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