Formatting own dataset about finrl HOT 7 CLOSED

this is python fundamental knowledge problem, it has nothing to do with the library, try to study the pandas module
https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.DataFrame.html
https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.read_csv.html

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Thanks for those recourses, I think it is still somewhat relevant because in the way I would like to know that kind of format for the data the library can recognize (e.g. is that the library can only take in OHLC format?)

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there are many formats; to my knowledge there is no single way to make them usable. Everyone has to create their own translation macro based on the data they want to work on.
Basically any trading library works on a dataframe in which the price refers to a certain time, nothing more than an ordered list.

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Noted with thanks

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however keep in mind that the standard ohlc format is necessary if it should be useful to work with indicator libraries such as Ta-lib

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for example if you want to use slowk indicator from talib it's necessari that 'high', 'low', 'open' colum are present in your dataframe
otherwise it will fail
slowk, slowd = STOCH(input_arrays, 5, 3, 0, 3, 0, prices=['high', 'low', 'open'])
but if you only want work whit SMA you only need one price reference
from talib.abstract import *
output = SMA(input_arrays, timeperiod=25) # calculate on close prices by default
output = SMA(input_arrays, timeperiod=25, price='open') # calculate on opens

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Thanks for the supplementary info!

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