To those that may come across this thread, I cannot explain why the issue is occurring, but if you pass a name to the default data when utilizing 'adddata', the legend will look normal again. Fixed #Don't use this: cerebro.adddata(data) #Use a name with the data: cerebro.adddata(data, name='OHLCV_jt') The name comes across in the heading / legend of the master Bokeh plot as so:

I tried it again with a pristine installation of backtrader (pip install backtrader). With the defaults, it's OK, but with voloverlay=False, the entire DataFrame is printed.

@sobeasy It seems to me that your solution should work. But it blows up for me (Spyder 3.3.6, Anaconda3, Win10 64 bit). Somehow, it really wants tkinter! ImportError: Cannot load backend 'TkAgg' which requires the 'tk' interactive framework, as 'qt5' is currently running Time to try VS Code; PyCharm's footprint is too heavy.