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Not sure if it's my code, or the way past Futures data is stored but the fills on my eventual Market Orders are rediculous and nowhere near the Last. Here is a small piece of Debugged order data from the backtest:
2016-01-05 00:22:00 LONG, Bid: 2012.25, Ask: 2012.5, Last: 2012.25, FillPrice: 2011.0, 36.32538906449194
2016-01-05 01:14:00 LONG EXIT, Ask: 2012.5, FillPrice: 2007.0
2016-01-05 01:15:00 LONG, Bid: 2012.25, Ask: 2012.5, Last: 2012.25, FillPrice: 2007.5, 31.28034666509519
2016-01-05 01:37:00 Out of long for 400
2016-01-05 01:41:00 SHORT, Bid: 2012.25, Ask: 2012.5, Last: 2012.25, FillPrice: 2012.75, 67.1066477408343
2016-01-05 03:23:00 Out of short for 400
2016-01-05 03:27:00 LONG, Bid: 2012.25, Ask: 2012.5, Last: 2012.25, FillPrice: 2006.0, 31.341624501096778
2016-01-05 04:06:00 LONG EXIT, Ask: 2012.5, FillPrice: 2001.75
2016-01-05 04:08:00 LONG, Bid: 2012.25, Ask: 2012.5, Last: 2012.25, FillPrice: 2002.5, 34.431038796859944
2016-01-05 04:21:00 LONG EXIT, Ask: 2012.5, FillPrice: 1997.5
2016-01-05 04:25:00 LONG, Bid: 2012.25, Ask: 2012.5, Last: 2012.25, FillPrice: 1998.75, 36.02152848749718
2016-01-05 05:12:00 LONG EXIT, Ask: 2012.5, FillPrice: 1994.25
You can see the fill prices are just off and its causing the algorithm to lose BIG. Where is the mistake in my code?
Derek Melchin
Hi Valen,
The algorithm is showing accurate fill prices. The reason it appears to be consistently filling outside the spread is because of the way the algorithm references the front contract. Since we have set the futures filter to return the front month contract only, the contract chain in OnData only contains this contract. Retrieving it with
contract = chain.Contracts.values()[0]ensures we have the latest data for this contract. If we update the debug messages to output the bid and ask prices of this contract, the fills are as we would expect.
Additionally, we need to create the RSI indicator without the canonical symbol. We can do this in Initialize with
self.rsi = RelativeStrengthIndex(14, MovingAverageType.Wilders)See the attached backtest which shows these alterations.
Best,
Derek Melchin
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Valen Russo
Ok that makes sense. The for loop painting the TradeBars out seemed strange. Thanks a lot for the reply!
Valen Russo
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