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I would like the Apha model to emit every 20 seconds but I don't see and example on how this is accomplished...
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Derek Melchin
Hi Walt,
The attached backtest demonstrates how we can setup a consolidator inside an alpha model and emit insights every time a new consolidated bar is received. The attached backtest uses minute resolution, but it can be adjusted to use second resolution.
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Derek Melchin
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Benjamin Charlton
I'm trying to learn the same thing, Walt. I'm sure that it's something to do with consolidators. There's some documentation about them here:
https://www.quantconnect.com/tutorials/api-tutorials/consolidating-data-to-build-barsThe trouble is, this tutorial only gets you so far as the QCAlgorithm.OnData method. It doesn't explain how to use consolidators inside the classes of the Algorithm Framwork, such as inside your alpha models.
Did you get any further on this since your post?
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