Warning: fill at stale price

Hi Liu,

Can you provide the code for the algorithm that you are running? This will help us better understand the issue, but I can say that we made a fix a few weeks ago to our Coarse Universe Selection model that prevents look-ahead bias and now is functioning as is to be expected. As for the warning, this will occur if a Market Order is placed at the end of the day as the Market Close. What happens is that this is converted to a Market On Open order, which executes at 9:30:00 exactly, but this is before any new data bars have come through and so it fills at the previous close price. When placing Market Orders on close/open, be sure to schedule these to happen at least one bar-length before/after.

Using minute can, and almost always, will affect the performance of a backtest. Using minute data provides for more realistic order fills and will certainly change the price at which is filled for nearly every order. The best way to examine this is through the trade logs and to examine the price differences, along with the trading frequency, and see what effect this might be having.

I have similar issue. My backtests all fail at the exercise date of this option (May 4th or around it). I am using daily resolution for data and trade at noon. Here is a snapshot of that trade:

Yep, i've been bitching about this for a while now too.

Hi Nick,

Can you post your code or a backtest? This will help us to debug your issue.

Hi Jack, I worked around the issue by changing my strategy not to hit this trade. I don't have the backtest or the code anymore.

Hi Jack, 

Please see the code below producing the same issue as stated by Nick M.

We would greatly appreciate your addressing the cause of and solution to 

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Hello Dean,

Thank you for pointing out this issue, and sorry for the late reply. We are glad to tell you that this issue is solved now. The cause is basically a data issue. If running the same code now, there will not be Liquidated - Warning: fill at stale price (4/25/2019 8:00:00 PM America/New_York) again.

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Still seeing this problem. My algorithm will try to close positions 60 minutes before the forex market closes on friday. First I get the "Warning: fill at stale price" message and then after the market closes, the MarketOrder fails.

Hi Chantal Coolsma ,

Since the algorithm is subscribing to daily-resolution data, the last data is time-stamped to mid-night of the day that the scheduled event is triggered. It is a 16-hour difference that results in that warning message.

I would recommend subscribing to, at least, hourly data when using scheduled events.

Also, you don't need to schedule the same event twice in the "for Currency in self.Currencies" loop.

Hi Kris,

Please attach a backtest that demonstrates the issue so we can assist with debugging.

Best,
Derek Melchin