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Eyal netanel INVESTOR

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As most of the code examples I see here relate to single stocks, I'm not sure how to apply an algorithm on individual stocks taken out of the selected universe.

In the most basic level: how does the algorithm for logging out the stocks contained in a universe look like?

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Jared Broad

STAFF ,

Hi Eyal, this example calls the securities changed event which contains all the Added and Removed assets from the universe.

Eyal netanel

234 ,

Thanks but this example shows (as you said) how to address securities that are in the added or removed lists of the universe. But what if I want to handle all the securities that ARE in the universe, not just those added in the last update? or maybe there's something fundamental that I don't understand aboutthis object?

Gage Melancon

167 ,

I am looking for how to do this as well. I tried integrating into single-stock code hoping it would run like a matrix of values, but I get an error that Symbol is a "method group".

Jared Broad

STAFF ,

The UniverseManager holds the universes collections and allows you to access the "members" of a universe:

var universe = UniverseManager["my-universe-symbol"].Members;

The universe symbol/name depends on what universe you're using (custom, or coarse etc).

Coarse universes are called: "qc-universe-coarse-usa".

var universe in the above example is a type: Dictionary<Symbol, Security Members>

Eyal Netanel

216 ,

I'm not sure if it's my unfimiliarity with quantconnect or my noob c# knowledge, but when i build on what you just wrote to say:

            var u=UniverseManager["qc-universe-coarse-usa"].Members;

            foreach Symbol in u {

            	Log ("blip");

            }

I get:

Cannot convert type 'System.Collections.Generic.KeyValuePair' to 'QuantConnect.Symbol'

Alexandre Catarino

100.6k ,

Hi Eyal,

Please try:

var members = UniverseManager["qc-universe-coarse-usa"].Members;

foreach(var member in members)

{

    Log(member + " is qc-universe-coarse-usa member.");

}

Jared Broad

STAFF ,

Members is a dictionary, you'll need to use the Key-Value-Pair.

foreach(var security in members.Values)

{

   //Security object

   security.Symbol; // & Holdings etc.

}

Eyal Netanel

216 ,

Thank you so much, Jared and Alexandre. If I understand you both correctly, I should be using:

            var uMembers=UniverseManager["qc-universe-coarse-usa"].Members;

            foreach (var member in uMembers) {

            	Log (member.Symbol+" blip");

            }

for which I get:
'KeyValuePair' does not contain a definition for 'Symbol' and no extension method 'Symbol' accepting a first argument of type 'KeyValuePair' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

So did I have to import anything to do that?
Thanks again for your patience as I'm making my first steps in QuantConnect.

Alexandre Catarino

100.6k ,

Eyal,

You can use:

var uMembers=UniverseManager["qc-universe-coarse-usa"].Members;

foreach (var member in uMembers) 

{

    Log (member.Key + " blip");

}

var uMembers=UniverseManager["qc-universe-coarse-usa"].Members;

foreach (var member in uMembers.Values) 

{

    Log (member.Symbol + " blip");

}

if you just want to print out the member's symbol value.

The second option (Jared's input) lets you access all the security properties: Symbol, Price, Holdings, etc.

Gage Melancon

167 ,

How would I get something like this to work:

UniverseSettings.Resolution = Resolution.Daily;

AddUniverse(coarse => {

return (from c in coarse

where c.Price > 15 & c.Volume > 1000000

orderby c.Symbol descending 

select c.Symbol).Take(5);

});



var universe = UniverseManager["qc-universe-coarse-usa"].Members;



foreach(var security in universe)

{



// create a 15 day exponential moving average

fast = EMA(security.Symbol +, 15, Resolution.Daily);



// create a 30 day exponential moving average

slow = EMA(security.Symbol +, 30, Resolution.Daily);



}

I essentially want to run the algorithm for all stocks meeting Universe criteria.

Alexandre Catarino

100.6k ,

Hi Gage,

I am attaching an algorithm that selects stocks from a universe based in moving averages cross. You can adapt it to include a filter for price and volume:

AddUniverse(coarse =>

{

    return (from cf in coarse

        

        // Price and volume filter

        where c.Price > 15 & c.Volume > 1000000



        // grab th SelectionData instance for this symbol

        let avg = _averages

            .GetOrAdd(cf.Symbol, sym => new SelectionData())

        // Update returns true when the indicators are ready, so don't accept until they are

        where avg.Update(cf.EndTime, cf.Price)

        // only pick symbols who have their 50 day ema over their 100 day ema

        where avg.Fast > avg.Slow*(1 + Tolerance)

        // prefer symbols with a larger delta by percentage between the two averages

        orderby avg.ScaledDelta descending

        // we only need to return the symbol and return 'Count' symbols

        select cf.Symbol).Take(Count);

});

Eyal Netanel

216 ,

Is it possible to manage 2 universes? one for long and one for short? or maybe there's a more efficient way to maintain those 2 seperated lists (having different selection configurations)?

Alexandre Catarino

100.6k ,

Hi Eyal,

You can add multiples universes.
I wrote a algorithm where we manage a universe for long and another for short in the spirit of your previous questions ("I want to handle all the securities that ARE in the universe"). It is buying the top 3 dollar volume stocks with price below $10 and shorting the top 3 dollar volume stocks with price above $10.

We now need to better stock picking/ranking method to make it profitable!

Eyal Netanel

216 ,

Thanks for sharing! I'll try to look at it soon.

Meanwhile - sidestepping the main issue of this thread - what amazes me is some preliminary results from trying to play with ema crossovers. When I previously looked at ema crossovers by eye-sampling a good number of stocks, it looked very, very promising to me as a basis for a strategy. And now when backtesting it here, it took my virtual account to almost 0. So that's also something I have to look into though i wondered if that's something any of the other readers of this thread has experienced or learned.

Eyal Netanel

216 ,

Bug?
foreach (var shortMember in universeLongMembers.Values)
Shouldn't it be:
foreach (var shortMember in universeShortMembers.Values)

Alexandre Catarino

100.6k ,

Hi Eyal,

First, I rewrote the algorithm above. It had that bug you caught and it wasn't very smart to rebalance everyday.

I've worked with some discritionary traders that would easily fool themselves with eye-sampling results. It falls into known cognitive biases.

George Briggs

324 ,

How can the _longUniverse be fine filtered, in this example?

Munindar Kumar

29 ,

How can I do the same in Python? (Iterating through universe members). Also, I'm getting Exception : This universe symbol ( ) was not found in your universe list. while executing

self.UniverseManager["qc-universe-coarse-usa"].Members.Count

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