Hello everyone, Need help with DailyFx Calendar.
@Jared Broad; @Alexandre Catarino
I am trying to build an algo using forex calendar as a signal. I started with the implementation of @JayJayD. But i do not know if i wrongly translated his code to Python but i noticed some discrepancy in the data when trying to implement DailyFx in Python.
In order to understand the origine of the differences, i wrote those two little algo which logs each time the signal is meet (date, symbol, signal count, calendar meaning, STD) for both algo. I noticed the following
1- While Having the same intruction, we get more signals from the C# algo than the one written in python (Please see algo and logs) 44 signals in python and +200 signals with C# . So my question if the following, Does the API from python and C# return the same data? does the python dailyFx API lack data? or did i make a mistake trying to get the same information when trying to access the same info from python?
2- Calendar Meaning; we get "worse" or "better" in C# and "1" or "2" in python. Once again is it a mistake from me or the data has different structure using whether Python or C#?
3-STD : I also noticed that that STD in C# round to 5 figures while python does not. This is Why i rounded it in python to make sure that STD in both languages return the same values, and this seems to be ok.
4- Finally would you please help me with decimal translation? does 50m; 0.7m; 0.02m could be respectively translated in python to decimal.Decimal(50); decimal.Decimal(0.7); decimal.Decimal(0.02).
NB: C# algo is the one i am trying to translate in Python so it should be considered as the original code.
Moussa BAMBA
Here is the C# code.
Jared Broad
Hi Moussa BAMBA this turned out to be a rather complicated issue. Because python does not support function overloads by the arguments we can only have OnData(Slice) vs in C# we have OnData(DailyFx). The C# DailyFX overload passes in all the events which occur on the same timestep, where the python version is truncating the data to 1 point and only sending the last one.
We're going to continue looking into this to find a solution which works. Generally speaking, I wouldn't recommend daily fx in live trading as it does not accurately report its times. The real times are often 1-2 minutes past the reported event time, which makes the backtesting unrealistic.
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Moussa BAMBA
Thank you Jared Broad for your time.
I have been really struggling to find a potential error in ly Python Code.
As you do not recommend Daily Fx for live trading (Live trading being the goal at the end of the day) ; Is there any other tool which could could allow us to reach the same goal?
Could we accurately use any other forex calendar? (If not we will have to drop a lot of Alpha idea and strategy we could built around this)
Moussa BAMBA
Jared Broad
Moussa BAMBA
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