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Adding Indicators in Research

Fairly new to Quantopian and Python, so please excuse a beginners question.

I have been exploring the Research environment and have been trying to add indicators to prices.

I started with a basic moving average using the attached code in the notebook, but couldn't even get that to run. Perhaps this is too simple? Do I need to use Matplotlib and add multiple sub-plots? How have others tackled this?

Not asking for code, just pointers to help get me started.

Thanks

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Daniel,

Here is a notebook I created that demonstrates a few common technical indicators.

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Hi James

Thanks - I have now got my example working and will continue to investigate and add indicators for others as future reference.

Great! Post them back here as I'm sure others would really appreciate it

I added several technical indicators that I thought would be interesting to use as technical features in a trading strategy. Feel free to expand on this notebook.