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When operating futures backtesting, I have the following code, I wonder how to get the underlying of the symbol in invested Portfolio.
I think maybe I can get the FutureContract object from the symbol, then get the underlying from FutureContract object, but I don't know how.
Any help is appreciated.
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invested:list[Symbol] = [x.Key for x in self.Portfolio if x.Value.Invested]
for symbol in invested:
# here I want to get the underlying of symbol
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Nico Xenox
Hey Li Mike,
what do you mean by the underlying of a futures contract? A futures contract has not an underlying symbol. Let us use for example gold:
For this, you will have to do something like this:
Hope it helps ;)
Li Mike
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