3. Plotting error: Axis limits cannot be NaN or Inf
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Plotting error: Axis limits cannot be NaN or Inf

  • O

    Hello there!
    The simple code get an error, could you please give an advise what's may be wrong.

    from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_literals)

import backtrader as bt
from backtrader.feeds import GenericCSVData

feed = 'XAU=.csv'
data = GenericCSVData(dataname='.\\data\\' + feed, name=feed,
                      dtformat='%d.%m.%Y',
                      separator=';',
                      datetime=0,
                      time=-1,
                      open=1,
                      high=2,
                      low=3,
                      close=4,
                      volume=-1,
                      openinterest=-1)

cerebro = bt.Cerebro()
cerebro.adddata(data)
cerebro.run()
cerebro.plot()

    Data in csv:
    Date;Open;High;Low;Close
    01.01.2010;1096.25;1096.9;1096.05;1096.35
    04.01.2010;1095.85;1123.4;1093.05;1120
    05.01.2010;1120.9;1127.7;1114.85;1118.65
    06.01.2010;1118;1140.2;1115.6;1138.5
    07.01.2010;1137.8;1138.75;1128.2;1131.9
    08.01.2010;1131.35;1139.3;1119.45;1136.1
    11.01.2010;1136.8;1161.5;1136.8;1152.6
    12.01.2010;1151.15;1158;1124.95;1127.3

    Getting error:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:/Users/-/YandexDisk/Codes Python/Algo/Bob GS/ex2.py", line 45, in <module>
    cerebro.plot()
    File "C:\Users-\backtrader_env\lib\site-packages\backtrader\cerebro.py", line 991, in plot
    start=start, end=end, use=use)
    File "C:\Users-\backtrader_env\lib\site-packages\backtrader\plot\plot.py", line 220, in plot
    self.plotdata(data, self.dplotsover[data])
    File "C:\Users-\backtrader_env\lib\site-packages\backtrader\plot\plot.py", line 634, in plotdata
    data, opens, highs, lows, closes, volumes, vollabel)
    File "C:\Users-\backtrader_env\lib\site-packages\backtrader\plot\plot.py", line 580, in plotvolume
    ax.set_ylim(0, volylim, auto=True)
    File "C:\Users-\backtrader_env\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\axes_base.py", line 3226, in set_ylim
    top = self._validate_converted_limits(top, self.convert_yunits)
    File "C:\Users-\backtrader_env\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\axes_base.py", line 2836, in _validate_converted_limits
    raise ValueError("Axis limits cannot be NaN or Inf")
    ValueError: Axis limits cannot be NaN or Inf

    Thank you!

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  • P

    @oalexandere said in Plotting error: Axis limits cannot be NaN or Inf:

    File "C:\Users\osipov\backtrader_env\lib\site-packages\backtrader\plot\plot.py", line 580, in plotvolume

    That should be the key line since there seems to be no volume in your data. Try plotting disabling the volume.

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  • O

    Thanks! Works

    cerebro.plot(volume=False)

    But in page https://www.backtrader.com/docu/plotting/plotting.html
    I found:

            # Wether to plot volume or not. Note: if the data in question has no
        # volume values, volume plotting will be skipped even if this is True
        self.volume = True

    A little bit strange, thought changing to Flase will be automatically.

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  • P

    Which is probably True (written in the best Python tradition) if your volume is 0, but since you have no volume and reading the error message:

    ValueError: Axis limits cannot be NaN or Inf

    it seems your volume is probably given a value of Nan. It might even be that NaN evaluates slightly different between Python 2.7 and 3.x.

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