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I just want to get the data from N bars before. Basically want to know the high and low of a specific period. For example the first 2 hours.
I schedule a function and then how I can get the max and min value of those 2 hours of trading?
global maxim
for i in range(30):
if (self.Securities["SPY"].High[i] > maxim):
maxim= self.Securities["SPY"].High[i]That doesn't work. I'm using a scheduled function in order to call this code block. But seems self.Securities["SPY"].High[i] is a float and not a list like I wanted.
Derek Melchin
Hi Cristian,
We can get the data from N bars before and determine the min/max over the first 2 hours of the trading day using rolling windows. In Initialize, we can create one window to track the previous 2 hours of candles and another window to track the first 2 hours of candles during the day.
self.rolling_window = RollingWindow[TradeBar](120) # 2 hour lookback self.first_candles = RollingWindow[TradeBar](120) # First 2 hours in a trading dayOn each new data slice in OnData, we add the new candle to rolling_window. We also add the new candle to first_candles if it is not already full.
self.rolling_window.Add(data['UBER']) if not self.first_candles.IsReady: self.first_candles.Add(data['UBER'])To ensure the first_candles continues to represent the first 2 hours of candles in a trading day, we can reset it at the end of each day.
def OnEndOfDay(self): self.first_candles.Reset()Now, in OnData, we can determine the high/low of the candle 2 that occurred 2 hours ago
max_2_hrs_ago = self.rolling_window[self.rolling_window.Count-1].High min_2_hrs_ago = self.rolling_window[self.rolling_window.Count-1].LowWe can also calculate the min/max of the first 2 hours of the trading day in OnData
min_first_2_hrs = float("inf") max_first_2_hrs = 0 for candle in self.first_candles: if candle.Low < min_first_2_hrs: min_first_2_hrs = candle.Low if candle.High > max_first_2_hrs: max_first_2_hrs = candle.HighSee the attached backtest for a full working example of this.
Best,
Derek
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Cristian correa
Thank you so much Derek, sorry for not responding before, I was really busy with other things. Great explanation!
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Cristian correa
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