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This is a feature request.
From what I've read, a paper account starts with 100000 in cash, and it's not possible to adjust that amount (neither before the algorithm starts running or during run time).
For me it would be very useful to be able to add funds (cash) to the paper account during run time. The tax laws in my country make it very unfavorable to have an actual account with a broker in another country. So what I would like to do, is to keep my actual account with my local broker, but have QC simulate that account, so that I can just manually copy the trades that my algorithm makes in the QC paper account.
In my actual account, I'm adding funds every month. As long as the paper account isn't able to mirror this, the two accounts loses sync, and the buy and sell signals from the algorithm are eventually useless.
I know that the static amount of cash in paper accounts is by design, but would you be willing to reconsider this? It wouldn't be difficult to implement the the change I'm asking for, but it would make the platform very much more useful to me.
I can, of course, write some code to work around this problem. But I can't really see why it shouldn't be an option to increase funds during run time.
Derek Melchin
Hi Christian,
In order to add funds to a real account, we need to stop the algorithm and redeploy. Therefore, to add funds to a paper account, we need to stop the algorithm and redeploy with the new account balance passed to the `SetCash` method.
When performing these steps currently, the positions and orders of the algorithm are not saved between deployments with the paper brokerage. Although, we have an open GitHub Issue to add this functionality. Subscribe to our progress here.
Best,
Derek Melchin
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Christian Piene Gundersen
Thanks again for your reply, Derek.
I am aware that I can stop and redeploy the algorithm for paper trading. But when I do, it ignores the SetCash. It always starts with 100000 in cash (or whatever it had left when I last stopped it).
What I am looking for, is a way to set the amount of cash when I redeploy. Ideally, I would like be able to add cash while the algo is running live in paper mode.
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Alexandre Catarino
Hi Christian Piene Gundersen ,
The "ideal" solution of adding cash while the algorithm is running is, let's say, a bit controversial since QuantConnect/Lean Paper Trading is meant to work similarly to other (paper) brokerages we support. Since we need to stop the algorithm, add funds to the account, and finally redeploy it, we should have to do the same for QC Paper.
Please contact support@quantconnect.com for the $100000 restart issue.
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Nathan Swenson
I'm thinking to set up the live trading, but to use it with paper trading just to get the signals in real time. I guess it would be better if it alerts ahead of time, like at open that there will be a trade at 2 hours after open. Because this strategy has so few trades, it's easy enough to just do the trades manually. I'm thinking I'll use a small amount in futures to trade NQ and ZB pair and my TD Ameritrade self managed 401k with a more conservative setup.
Regarding the Alpha Competition, this version qualifies with 84% PSR (Alpha score). Peter, you should think about entering it. You did all the work. I'm just playing around with for consideration of using for my own accounts.
Regarding the high results above, that was without any Margin. So if you wanted to go crazy, you could add some margin to it, or simply trade non-Leverage funds but lean more on margin.
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Nathan Swenson
Screen shot of the end result.
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Nathan Swenson
Sorry for all the posts. Having trouble posting screen shots when working from an IPAD.
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Mateusz Pulka
Tien Duy Vo Peter Guenther
I have spotted this bug also, the problem is here (the loop is run outside the if statement):
if not self.be_in:
# Close 'In' holdings
#for asset, weight in self.HLD_IN.items():
# self.SetHoldings(asset, 0)
#for asset, weight in self.HLD_OUT.items():
# self.SetHoldings(asset, weight)
wt[self.STKS] = 0
wt[self.TLT] = .5
wt[self.IEF] = .5
# Thomas's reducing unnecessary trades
for sec, weight in wt.items():
cond1 = (self.Portfolio[sec].Quantity > 0) and (weight == 0)
cond2 = (self.Portfolio[sec].Quantity == 0) and (weight > 0)
if cond1 or cond2:
self.SetHoldings(sec, weight)
The for loop will be fire every time even if we set self.be_in to false. The correct version is:
if not self.be_in:
# Close 'In' holdings
#for asset, weight in self.HLD_IN.items():
# self.SetHoldings(asset, 0)
#for asset, weight in self.HLD_OUT.items():
# self.SetHoldings(asset, weight)
wt[self.STKS] = 0
wt[self.TLT] = .5
wt[self.IEF] = .5
# Thomas's reducing unnecessary trades
for sec, weight in wt.items():
cond1 = (self.Portfolio[sec].Quantity > 0) and (weight == 0)
cond2 = (self.Portfolio[sec].Quantity == 0) and (weight > 0)
if cond1 or cond2:
self.SetHoldings(sec, weight)
The same should be applied in second if statement.
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Mateusz Pulka
Sorry some kind of formatting problem. Generally the for loop should be move inside the if statement as Tien Duy Vo pointed out when algo starts and be_in paramter is true we will buy long and short at the same time.
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Nathan Swenson
I'm sorry, I don't know Python. I don't see any difference between your code blocks. Is this mistake resulting in inflated results due to margin usage?
Edit: Didn't see your last response. I will wait for a Python coder to update it. I only know C#.
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Mateusz Pulka
Sorry for formating problem. The code should look like this:
https://pastebin.com/cnKm9BVYinstead of this:
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Nathan Swenson
So the issue pointed out by Gpw radar and Tien Duy Vo only occurs if "be_in = true" at the time of start. I don't see any issues with my order when ran from 2008 to 2020. It would seem that the results for mine are correct. I was worried that the results were invalid.
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Tien Duy Vo
gpw radar : Thanks for pointing out. Great job. Unfortunately, the backtesting framework on Quantconnect seems to be much slower than on Quantopian. It is quite difficult to debug that way.
There is another issue related to this part of the code:
self.Schedule.On(
self.DateRules.EveryDay(),
self.TimeRules.AfterMarketOpen('SPY', 120),
self.rebalance_when_out_of_the_market
)
self.Schedule.On(
self.DateRules.WeekEnd(),
self.TimeRules.AfterMarketOpen('SPY', 120),
self.rebalance_when_in_the_market
)
Here, the algo is firing the two functions rebalance_when_out_of_the_market and self.rebalance_when_in_the_market, which is responsible to get "in" and "out". However, you can see that one is started every day and the other one at weekend. I wonder, whether this is done on purpose.
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Mateusz Pulka
You are right Nathan Swenson it only occures once at the begining when you start algo and when flag in is set to true. For example check out your orders when you set the star date at 1st January 2018. It is not a big deal but worh to fix it.
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Mark hatlan
Great work! This market timer does a really nice job.
However TQQQ does do way better than SPXL. SPXL starts on 11/03/2008. UPRO starts on 6/28/2009. TQQQ starts on 2/7/2010. When switching the start date to 2/7/2010 here are the returns:
SPXL +7,552%
UPRO +7,180%
TQQQ +19,859%
I think SPXL only looked better because of the earlier first trade date.
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Nathan Swenson
Thanks Mark! Good point!
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Aalap Sharma
Relativily new to all this and I would really like to know are these returns realistic in the real markets? Has anyone deployed such algos to the market and seen healthy returns. Just curious...
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Nathan Swenson
Aalap, I just turned the algo on and entered TMF. We shall see soon enough. I'm going very aggressive with leveraged products. It should be very realistic as it only trades about 10 times a year with trades just 2 hours after RTH market open. Algo is entirely in treasury bonds at the moment.
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Aalap Sharma
Cool! I was thinking the same :)
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Mateusz Pulka
Hi Guys,
I have added some improvments to the code and please noticed the result. So first algo has improvment in terms of open the trade at the begning of the cycle when we start the algo. The return for 2010-2020 is: 16 772%
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Mateusz Pulka
The second run contains the following improvement. I just want to generate a signal about in/out just right after the open market. But open position just in the same way as the original algo. What is surprising the result is 21 011%. I am a little bit surprised about this, to be honest. Any idea where this difference comes from?
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Nathan Swenson
Gpw Radar, I see it takes more trades when you check signal at open. Perhaps it's due to increased volatility at open which is more likely to trigger needed deviation. The 2 hours after close is actually European market close for which there is often a ramp up in index price. I had thought about messing around with that as even 5 minutes makes a difference in that period. I know 2hrs and 5 min is significant. The timing of entry vs exit and asset type all matter. Bonds seem affected more at open, mid day, and close, while 2hr after open seems more significant for equities. Lots of opportunity for improvement I believe with timing alone.
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Mateusz Pulka
please notice that I only generate a signal in/out 1min after the market is open and then after 120min I open the position base on the signal. I have noticed that as I used IB with the cash parameter some of the orders were not filled (lack of money) and the order was later sometimes even 5 days later.
Peter Guenther Have you tried to use futures instead of etf to generate the in/out signal?
https://finance.yahoo.com/commodities?.tsrc=fin-srch
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Nathan Swenson
Gpw, perhaps the delayed order in due to transaction order. I often see that the buy order is executed before the sell order for prior holdings. This probably needs to be fixed.
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