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I'm trying tom understand why I see the universe count growing each day. Looking at the variable Securities.Count and see it incease every day even though the selection is for the top 5. Is there a way to tell wich securities are active?
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Jing Wu
You can remove the symbol in "Securities" with
foreach (var security in _changes.RemovedSecurities) { Securities.Remove(security.Symbol); }When using the scheduled event method, please specify an equity symbol for the method to track the market hours
AddEquity("SPY", Resolution.Minute); Schedule.On(DateRules.EveryDay("SPY"), TimeRules.At(09, 45), CountUniv);Gordon grimm
Jing Wu
I added the reference to SPY and now my algo trades SPY, not what I want. It appeard to work wthout the refering to SPY, what it the issue with not refering to a securty?
Thanks for the input.
I modified my code and added my own list to store the universe, then on universe change I add and remove securities. Seems to be stable at five securities as exected now.
It seems odd that the universe continues to grow when the the call is to take the top 5 each time. Is there some reason why that occurs?
Jack Simonson
Hi Gordon,
The snippet that Jing sent you was just an example of how you would schedule an event for SPY. Given your Current schedule rules, you can omit any reference to security names and simply call Schedule.On(DateRules.EveryDay(), TimeRules.At(09, 0), CountUniv) which will apply CountUniv to the entire universe every day at 9am.
Rather than needing to create a custom function, examining and counting the active securities in your universe can be done using the ActiveSecurities data dictionary. ActiveSecurities provides information about assets currently in your universe, which is useful for iterating over those securities from your universe selection. The securities in this dictionary have the same properties as the Securities collection.
Gordon grimm
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