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I understand we can use Data Consolidators to pipe data to indicators. It seems that we can only pipe one custom data to one indicator.
I may have missed something in the documentation. Can we create two custom datafeed (sourced from quandl) and consolidate both of them into a single custom indicator?
I'm experimenting with creating a (VIX-VXV) contango indicator using daily close prices of VIX and VXV from quandl.
Thanks!
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Good question, Mike's the indicator expert here so I'll defer to him on how to do it "properly".. :)
A quick-dirty solution might be to write a custom data type which combines all the data you need into one object that extends BaseData, and then making an indicator on that object. The downside is you'd need to build the combined object manually and do the updates manually (which is probably more effort than its worth).
At the moment when you use a helper to register an indicator to receive a data stream it creates a new instance of the indicator. Perhaps you could do this manually - and use the same indicator object to register it for two data streams? Example from the QC University Indicators Project
A quick-dirty solution might be to write a custom data type which combines all the data you need into one object that extends BaseData, and then making an indicator on that object. The downside is you'd need to build the combined object manually and do the updates manually (which is probably more effort than its worth).
At the moment when you use a helper to register an indicator to receive a data stream it creates a new instance of the indicator. Perhaps you could do this manually - and use the same indicator object to register it for two data streams? Example from the QC University Indicators Project
RegisterIndicator("BTC", _rsiCustom, bitcoinIdentityConsolidator, x => x.Value);
RegisterIndicator("SPY", _rsiCustom, new IdentityDataConsolidator(), x => x.Value);
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I've thrown together a quick example of a way to use the FunctionalIndicator to do things that may seem difficult otherwise.
What I'm doing here is creating two simple moving average indicators (one for VIX and one for VXV). I then define a FunctionalIndicator which uses these symbols in it's compute method.
See FunctionalIndicator on github.
I pass a function to the constructor that tells it how to ComputeNextValue and determine if it IsReady.
Jared has opened up an issue on github to address this in a more formal manner.
Here's the meat and potatoes:
In the Initialize method...
Defined lower in Main.cs
Let me know if this works for you!
What I'm doing here is creating two simple moving average indicators (one for VIX and one for VXV). I then define a FunctionalIndicator which uses these symbols in it's compute method.
See FunctionalIndicator on github.
I pass a function to the constructor that tells it how to ComputeNextValue and determine if it IsReady.
Jared has opened up an issue on github to address this in a more formal manner.
Here's the meat and potatoes:
In the Initialize method...
// the functional indicator takes as arguments two functions,
// the first is a ComputeNextValue function
// the second is an IsReady function
ratio_VXV_VIX = new FunctionalIndicator("ratio",
point => RatioIndicator_ComputeNextValue(point, smaVXV, smaVIX),
ratioIndicator => RatioIndicator_IsReady(ratioIndicator, smaVXV, smaVIX)
);
Defined lower in Main.cs
private decimal RatioIndicator_ComputeNextValue(IndicatorDataPoint data,
IndicatorBase vxv,
IndicatorBase vix)
{
return vxv / vix;
}
private bool RatioIndicator_IsReady(IndicatorBase functionalIndicator,
IndicatorBase vxv,
IndicatorBase vix)
{
return vxv.IsReady && vix.IsReady;
}
Let me know if this works for you!
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Superb! Thanks!
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Would someone be willing to provide an example of this in Python?
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I'd also appreciate an example in python.
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Same here. I am looking forward with an example in Python. Thanks in advance!
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Hi All,
As custom data Yahoo VIX and VXV is not available in this algorithm, we've updated this algorithm with the quandl data and simplify the algorithm with Indicator Extensions. This is the C# example
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This is the Python example
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Thank you Jing!
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