plotTSHF¶

Purpose¶

Plots high-frequency and irregularly spaced time series data.

Format¶

plotTSHF([myPlot, ]date_vec, label_unit, y)¶

Parameters:

myPlot (struct) – Optional argument, a plotControl structure.
date_vec (Nx1 vector) –
containing the dates for each observation in the y . The dates in date_vec are required to be:
- In POSIX time/date format i.e. seconds since Jan 1, 1970.
- Sorted, increasing.
However, the dates in date_vec may be:
- Irregularly spaced
- Any frequency which can be represented by DT Scalar format, such as by year, quarter, month, week, day, hour, minute, second or millisecond.
label_unit (string) –
containing the frequency with which to display the x-axis tick labels. Valid options include:
- ”milliseconds”
- ”seconds”
- ”minutes”
- ”hours”
- ”days”
- ”months”
- ”quarters”
- ”years”
y (Nx1 or NxM matrix) – Each column contains the Y values for a particular line.

Examples¶

Basic TS plot with tick labels in terms of minutes¶

// Dates in DT Scalar format for readability
// October 09, 2008 6:30:00 - 6:32:30
dt = { 20081009063000,
       20081009063030,
       20081009063100,
       20081009063130,
       20081009063200,
       20081009063230 };

// Convert dates to seconds since epoch for plotTSHF
dt = dttoutc(dt);

// Some random data to plot
y = rndu(rows(dt), 1);

// Plot the data, with tick labels
// in terms of seconds
plotTSHF(dt, "minutes", y);

Plot Forex tick data with custom X-tick labels¶

// Create file name with full path
file = getGAUSSHome() $+ "examples/eurusd_tick.csv";

// Load dates as a string array from the first column of the file
dt_s = csvReadSA(file, 2|21, 1|1);

// Convert the dates from string to POSIX dates
// String dates look like: "20081031 125145000"
dt_psx = strctoposix(dt_s, "%Y%m%d %H%M%S%L");

// Load bid and ask quotes
y = loadd(file, "bid + ask");
y = y[1:rows(dt_psx), .];

// Declare plotControl structure
// and fill with default settings
struct plotControl myPlot;
myPlot = plotGetDefaults("xy");

// Create an X-tick label every 15 seconds
// Set the first tick label at:
// October 31st, 2008 at 45 seconds after midnight
first_label = strctoposix("2008 10 31 12:52", "%Y %m %d %H:%M");
plotSetXTicInterval(&myPlot, 15, first_label);

// Draw the time series plot
plotTSHF(myPlot, dt_psx, "seconds", y);

T-bill plot with full date vector¶

// Create file name with full path
file = getGAUSSHome() $+ "examples/tbill_3mo.xlsx";

// Load date vector and tbill data
x = loadd(file, "obs_date + tbill_3m");

// Separate date vector and tbill data
date_vec = dttoutc(x[., 1]);
y = x[ ., 2 ];

// Specify that tick labels should be
// on years, even though the data is monthly
label_unit = "years";

// Draw the time series plot
plotTSHF(date_vec, label_unit, y);

Daily data with full date vector¶

// Fully pathed file name
fname = getGAUSSHome() $+ "examples/xle_daily.xlsx";

// Load all observations from variables,
// 'Date' and 'Adj Close'
data = loadd(fname, "Date + Adj Close");

// Select the first 150 observations
// from the date vector and the adjusted close
nobs = 150;
date_vec = dttoutc(data[1:nobs, 1]);
closing_price = data[1:nobs, 2];


// Draw plot of this daily data, specifying
// that the X-tick labels should be set in
// terms of months
plotTSHF(date_vec, "months", closing_price);

Time Series Plot With Custom X-ticks¶

// Create file name with full path
file = getGAUSSHome() $+ "examples/tbill_3mo.xlsx";

// Load dates (header is row 20) and convert to seconds since Jan 1, 1970
dts = dttoposix(xlsReadM(file, "A21:A49"));

// Load 28 observations
y = xlsReadM(file, "B21:B49");

// Declare 'myPlot' to be a plotControl structure
// and fill it with 'xy' default settings
struct plotControl myPlot;
myPlot = plotGetDefaults("xy");

// Place first x-tick mark at 1984 month 1 and draw one every 2 quarters
// Note that we pass in the first_labeled date in posix format
plotSetXTicInterval(&myPlot, 2, dttoposix(1984));

// Display only 4 digit year on x-tick labels
plotSetXTicLabel(&myPlot, "YYYY-QQ");

// Draw time series plot, using settings in 'myPlot'
plotTSHF(myPlot, dts, "quarters", y);

Remarks¶

Formatting for the x-tick labels can be set with the function plotSetXTicLabel(). If a plotControl structure is not passed in to plotTSHF(), or the format specifier is not set with plotSetXTicLabel() the default formatting based on the time label unit and is as follows:

“years”	“YYYY”
“quarters”	“YYYY-QQ”
“months”	“YYYY-MO”
“days”	“MO-DD”
“hours”	“HH:MI”
“minutes”	“HH:MI”
“seconds”	“HH:MI:SS”
“milliseconds”	“HH:MI:SS.zzz”

By default missing values in the y variable will be represented as gaps in the line.