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How do I get the "cost basis" for a given position? I'm trying to replicate behaviour from Quantopian, so I'm looking for the VWAP per share of a given position. Is this something I need to calculate myself?
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Tim Butler
Shaun
If I've understood your question properly, this is what I've used personally:
C#
BuyPrice = Portfolio["XIV"].AveragePrice;
Python
self.BuyPrice = self.Portfolio["XIV"].AveragePrice
I just very lazily update this every tick.
Jared Broad
Checkout the SecurityHolding object for all the available helper properties.
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Shaun Senecal
Thanks. That appears to be what I am looking for. I have tried to follow the docs before, but I tend to get lost when trying to convert between the docs (which appear to be targetted for C#) and python (which I'm trying to write my algo in)
As suggested, I just checked the docs for the SecurityHolding object, but there doesnt appear to be an "AveragePrice" property. I see VolumeWeightedAveragePrice, which appears to be what I'm looking for though.
Jared Broad
Shaun Senecal its tricky to find in the generated docs, its clearer in the source -- here is the direct link:
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Shaun Senecal
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