What can I add to this code to change the number of ticks on the x-axis which represents Date to let it appear?
I just want few ticks
plt.figure(figsize= (10,5))
plt.plot(AAPL['Date'], AAPL['Adj Close'], label = 'Apple')
plt.plot(AMZN['Date'], AMZN['Adj Close'], label = 'Amazon')
plt.plot(GOOG['Date'], GOOG['Adj Close'], label = 'Google')
plt.plot(MSFT['Date'], MSFT['Adj Close'], label = 'Microsoft')
plt.legend()
plt.show()
Try this:
start, end = plt.get_xlim()
plt.xaxis.set_ticks(np.arange(start, end, stepsize))
edit: oops. looks like you might need to call get_xlim() on the axes.
axes = plt.gca() #gca = get current axes
start, end = axes.get_xlim()
First of all, you need to be sure your time column type is datetime, not str. In this case, you should convert it to datetime through pd.to_datetime().
Then you can set the number of tick along time axis with ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(). See matplotlib.mdates for more informations.
You can check this answer as an example.