A Quick Way to Import Intraday OHLC Data in Python.

How to Import OHLC Data from MetaTrader5 to Python for Analysis.

Sofien Kaabar, CFA
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In research, we need the idea generation phase to have enough time to deliver good results and this cannot be done if we have a long process of transforming the ideas into visible results. One thing we can do is automating the import of historical data and this precisely the point of this article. By creating a few simple functions, we will be able to call thousands of OHLC data almost immediately. For this, we need to download a library which is described below.

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