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Hi, I'm trying out the BasicTemplateOptionsAlgorithm. It builds OK, but fails during initailization in the backtest with the subject message. I tried changing GOOG to IBM and received the same error for IBM. Is there something else I need to do in order to use this template?
Second question: Will this algorithm also work for a non-traded index, such as the Russell 2000? I tried ^RUT as the underlying ticker and it was accepted by the build, so it looks promising, but I I need to get past the initialization error to know for sure).
Jared Broad
Hey Scott! Are you running this on QuantConnect or locally in LEAN?
It will only work if you import the index data with Quandl / Yahoo. The index isn't in our system by default.
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Scott Tuttle
Hi Jarod, thanks for your reply.
I'm running on QuantConnect.
I think I can probably figure out how to get the RUT index itself and import that, but I have not had much luck finding the historical option data on Quandl or Yahoo. Not sure where I need to look for that.
Jared Broad
yet. Its considerably difficult to get the 120PB of options data ready for
backtesting :)
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Scott Tuttle
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