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Hi QC community,
I am new to QC and trying to do develop my algo here. The first question I am having now is how to set/restrict the universe from a list of stock symbols from an extenal file. For example:
CSV (external file):
date,symbol
2015/10/01,AAPL
2015/10/02,MSFT
What I want is on 2015/10/01, the algo knows it can only trade AAPL and on 2015/10/02, both AAPL and MSFT can be traded by the algo.
thanks a lot!
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Alexandre Catarino
What you are looking for is what we call "Custom Universe Selection".
Here is a thread where we discuss it:
In Michael's example, remote files are stored in Dropbox. Since they have changed their policy for public folder, there could be an issue. Fortunatelly, the algorithm runs sucessfully.
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Hi Alexandre Catarino
Thanks for the response. I was wondering if Dropbox is the only option here. Can I use Google Drive? Thanks!
Alexandre Catarino
We can use any hosting service as long as you can use System.Net.WebClient to fetch the data.
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Alexandre Catarino The System.Net link is broken... 403 Forbidden
Alexandre Catarino
Sorry, it shouldn't be a link, but here is the link to WebClient class: WebClient Class.
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