Reset color cycle in Matplotlib

Question

Say I have data about 3 trading strategies, each with and without transaction costs. I want to plot, on the same axes, the time series of each of the 6 variants (3 strategi

Answer 1

As an addition to the already excellent answers, you can consider using a colormap:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

cmap = plt.cm.viridis

datarange = np.arange(4)

for d in datarange:
    # generate colour by feeding float between 0 and 1 to colormap
    color = cmap(d/np.max(datarange)) 
    plt.plot(np.arange(5)+d, c=color)

for d in datarange:
    # generate colour by feeding float between 0 and 1 to colormap
    color = cmap(d/np.max(datarange))
    plt.plot(-np.arange(5)+d, c=color)