Merge branch 'master' into master

Author: DanielGoldfarb

README.md

@@ -1,22 +1,22 @@
 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/matplotlib/mplfinance.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/matplotlib/mplfinance)
 
 # mplfinance
-## matplotlib utilities for the visualization, and visual analysis, of financial data
+matplotlib utilities for the visualization, and visual analysis, of financial data
 
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-
-# Installation
-##    `pip install --upgrade mplfinance`
-   - mplfinance requires [matplotlib](https://pypi.org/project/matplotlib/) and [pandas](https://pypi.org/project/pandas/)
+##  Installation
+```bash
+pip install --upgrade mplfinance
+```
+- mplfinance requires [matplotlib](https://pypi.org/project/matplotlib/) and [pandas](https://pypi.org/project/pandas/)
 
 ---
 
-# <a name="announcements"></a>Announcing Version 0.12.7
-### [External Axes Mode and Animation Support.](https://github.com/matplotlib/mplfinance/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES.md)
+## <a name="announcements"></a>Announcing Version 0.12.7
+[External Axes Mode and Animation Support.](https://github.com/matplotlib/mplfinance/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES.md)
 
 ---
 
-# <a name="tutorials"></a>Contents and Tutorials
+## <a name="tutorials"></a>Contents and Tutorials
 
   - **[The New API](https://github.com/matplotlib/mplfinance#newapi)**
   - **[Tutorials](https://github.com/matplotlib/mplfinance#tutorials)**
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ I am very interested to hear from you regarding what you think of the new `mplfi
 
 ---
 
-# <a name="usage"></a>Basic Usage
+## <a name="usage"></a>Basic Usage
 Start with a Pandas DataFrame containing OHLC data.  For example,
 
 
@@ -171,7 +171,6 @@ daily.tail(3)
 </table>
 
 
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 <br>
 
 After importing mplfinance, plotting OHLC data is as simple as calling `mpf.plot()` on the dataframe
@@ -186,7 +185,6 @@ mpf.plot(daily)
 ![png](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/matplotlib/mplfinance/master/readme_files/readme_4_1.png)
 
 
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 <br>
 
 The default plot type, as you can see above, is `'ohlc'`.  Other plot types can be specified with the keyword argument `type`, for example, `type='candle'`, `type='line'`, `type='renko'`, or `type='pnf'`
@@ -385,7 +383,7 @@ intraday.tail(3)
 
 
 
-The above dataframe contains Open,High,Low,Close data at 1 minute intervervals for the S&P 500 stock index for November 5, 6, 7 and 8, 2019.  Let's look at the last hour of trading on November 6th, with a 7 minute and 12 minute moving average.
+The above dataframe contains Open,High,Low,Close data at 1 minute intervals for the S&P 500 stock index for November 5, 6, 7 and 8, 2019.  Let's look at the last hour of trading on November 6th, with a 7 minute and 12 minute moving average.
 
 
 ```python
@@ -584,11 +582,9 @@ My name is Daniel Goldfarb.  In November 2019, I became the maintainer of `matpl
 It is my intention to archive the `matplotlib/mpl-finance` repository soon, and direct everyone to `matplotlib/mplfinance`.  The main reason for the rename is to avoid confusion with the hyphen and the underscore: As it was, `mpl-finance` was *installed with the hyphen, but imported with an underscore `mpl_finance`.*  Going forward it will be a simple matter of both installing and importing `mplfinance`.
 
 ---
-### <a name="oldapi"></a>old API availability
-
-**With this new ` mplfinance ` package installed, in addition to the new API, users can still access the old API**.<br> The old API may be removed some day, but for the foreseeable future we will keep it ... at least until we are very confident that users of the old API can accomplish the same things with the new API.
+## <a name="oldapi"></a>Old API availability
 
----
+**With this new ` mplfinance ` package installed, in addition to the new API, users can still access the old API**.<br> The old API may be removed someday, but for the foreseeable future we will keep it ... at least until we are very confident that users of the old API can accomplish the same things with the new API.  
 
 To access the old API with the new ` mplfinance ` package installed, change the old import statments
 
@@ -612,10 +608,3 @@ where `<method>` indicates the method you want to import, for example:
 ```python
     from mplfinance.original_flavor import candlestick_ohlc
 ```
-
----
-
-
-```python
-
-```

examples/scratch_pad/trend_line_extrapolation.ipynb

@@ -190,6 +190,9 @@ def _valid_make_marketcolors_kwargs():
                                                        or isinstance(value,str) 
                                                        or mcolors.is_color_like(value) },
 
+        'vcdopcod'   : { 'Default'     : False,
+                         'Validator'   : lambda value: isinstance(value,bool) },
+
         'inherit'    : { 'Default'     : False,
                          'Validator'   : lambda value: isinstance(value,bool) },
 
@@ -272,6 +275,9 @@ def _check_and_set_mktcolor(candle,**kwarg):
     if config['alpha'] is not None:
         marketcolors.update({'alpha':config['alpha']})
 
+    if config['vcdopcod'] is not None:
+        marketcolors.update({'vcdopcod':config['vcdopcod']})
+
     return marketcolors
 
 def write_style_file(style,filename):