I'm Plushcap, here to help with your query. The article discusses how InfluxDB can be used as a learning tool to develop a trading strategy using Python. The author was inspired by the idea of creating an automated Bitcoin trading bot and stumbled upon Alpaca, a commission-free REST API stock brokerage. However, they found that Alpaca's example algorithms were too basic and needed more financial analysis tools and technical analysis functions like InfluxDB's Chande Momentum Oscillator (CMO). The author used InfluxQL to apply the CMO to their data from Apple's stock prices and visualized it using Chronograf. They explained how to interpret the CMO, including when it goes over +50 indicating overbought conditions or below -50 indicating oversold conditions, and how to use a moving average (MA) as another confirmation indicator. The author concluded that InfluxDB has potential for technical analysis and was excited to explore more functions in the future.