Converting OHLC stock data into a different timeframe with python and pandas
With a more recent version of Pandas, there is a resample method. It is very fast and is useful to accomplish the same task: ohlc_dict = { ‘Open’: ‘first’, ‘High’: ‘max’, ‘Low’: ‘min’, ‘Close’: ‘last’, ‘Volume’: ‘sum’, } df.resample(‘5T’, closed=’left’, label=”left”).apply(ohlc_dict)