Use of HDF5 Format, and Some Charting Improvements

Over the last few weeks/months I have found it necessary to revisit the basic infrastructure of my trading/computing set up due to increasing slowness of the various computing routines I have running. The first issue I am now addressing is how I store my data on disc. When I first started I opted for csv text files , mostly due to my ignorance of other possibilities at the time and the fact that I…