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Hello,
How do you set the end date for current the one in the documentation keeps getting an error?
self.SetEndDate(datetime.now() - timedelta(1))
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Derek Tishler
Only supplying a 'self.SetStartDate' should work. You can comment out the SetEndDate line to get it working this way.
Dustin C
Thanks,
Dustin
Abco Janssens
I discovered when I comment out the self.SetEndDate to today's date, the backtest skips the previous day. I use OnEndOfDay method and it does not show the previous day in plots when I do not set the end date to today. When I do not comment out it shows the previous day. Is this normal behavior? It does not seem correct to me.
Abco Janssens
I have now included below code and then always previous day is included in the backtest (including a log of the current date time in the algorithm timezone).
Today = datetime.now().date()
TodayTime = Â datetime.now()
self.Log(TodayTime)
self.SetEndDate(Today)
Abco Janssens
Above statement ‘(including a log of the current date time in the algorithm timezone).’ is not correct. It should be (including a log of the current date time in the UTC timezone). To avoid confusion I adapted the code to include the UTC Time description.
Today = datetime.now().date()
TodayTime = Â datetime.now()
self.Log(f'{TodayTime} UTC_Time')
self.SetEndDate(Today)
Louis Szeto
Hi Abco
We tested both daily and minute resolution data and they do not reproduce your problem. Is there any possibility that the "previous day" is not a trading day? Please attach your code snippet for further assistant.
Best
Louis Szeto
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Dustin C
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