History, warmup, trading days by Keith K

Keith K

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Sorry if this has been asked before:

Recently I've turned off fillForward (which is on by default), because it gets me closer to reality. (Of course, this forced me to fix my sloppy code to check for null pointer exceptions)

It would save everyone a lot of time if there were a convenience method that returned exactly 100 slices, and only slices that have data for ALL symbols in my syms array.

IEnumerable<Slice> slices = History(syms, this.StartDate.AddDays(-102 * 7 / 5), this.StartDate, Resolution.Daily);

Wouldn't it be more correct to deprecate the AddDays() function and suggest using a new

AddTradingDays(-100, "SPY")

or maybe

AddTradingDays(-100, Securities.Keys )

Of course, maybe there's a more correct solution / more efficient solution for warming up a 100 day indicator?

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Ray Bohac

Check out the SetWarmup method. It can be called as SetWarmup(int) or SetWarmup(Timespan)

I recommend also using the IsWarmingUp() method in your OnData event to prevent unexpected behavior

Documentation at https://www.quantconnect.com/lean/documentation/topic330.html

Examples can be found at https://www.quantconnect.com/forum/discussion/813/feature-history-and-warmup

Keith K

541 ,

Thanks Ray.

I'm using a shorter 5 day SetWarmup() period at Resolution.Minute... in addition, I have a 100 day History() at Resolution.Daily. 100 days of warmup at Resolution.Minute takes too long.

Maybe is there a way to adjust the SetWarmup resolution as you get to the closer to the start day?

Jared Broad

Hi Keith; assuming you're talking about live trading - using the History API directly is probably the best bet for you.

We're finish off a new history server now technology now. It'll be roughly 100x faster :). It should be installed this week.

Hemant Verma

1.8k ,

Jared you guys are awesome. Looking forward to when the history stuff is available. More so I am looking forward risk control statergies and algorithm framework that we talked about in other thread.

Great work guys!

Keith K

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