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Hi guys, Im new to Quantconnect, just moving over from another platform.
Quick question...I can writing a mean reversion algo, how can I use the members of the S&P 500 to calculate what I should go long and short? Also does this take into consideration historic members e.g when backtesting will Enron be there? Sorry if its a basic question. I am used to loading a select universe. Thanks
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Hi Miller, we don't have history constituents of S&P500 index at this time but we created this algorithm ConstituentsQC500GeneratorAlgorithm.py to generate a universe of stocks to approximate the stocks in the index.
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