Python is consistently appearing in the top 10 programming languages in surveys on StackOverflow.

Have a look at https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019

Also Python exposes many libraries such as scikit-learn,Keras,tensorFlow for predictive analytics.

Python is undoubtedly a very user friendly language for prediction purposes you want to achieve. There is a time series module which will help you in the price prediction forecasting. There are lots of models for this purpose but ARIMA had provided with very good prediction accuracies.

https://towardsdatascience.com/predict-electricity-consumption-using-time-series-analysis-4650284e40aa