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As you can see in my algorithm, I have the symbol listed many times. When I want to backtest another symbol, I have to change them all which takes up unnecessary amounts of time. Does anyone know how to place something in the code where you only have to switch the symbol once and it will work throughout the entire code? For example place the equity in self.equities and then can I write equity instead of the symbol throughout the code? Thanks.
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Serge d'Adesky
Hi Nicholas,
My suggestion:
self.security = self.AddEquity("AMZN", Resolution.Minute) self.symbol = security.SymbolThen you have both a Symbol (string) and a security (Security object) as a handle to yourdesired stock. Some QC functions want one, some another. I like to have a handle to both. Â Or you can just grab "self.security" and then refer to its ".Symbol" string value everywhere.For example in your Consolidate method you might do:self.Consolidate(self.symbol, Resolution.Daily, self.TradeBarHandler)or alternativelyself.Consolidate(self.security.Symbol, Resolution.Daily, self.TradeBarHandler)I prefer the former. BTW , you have a semicolon at the end of your python line. Thismay be an unintended carryover from a c# code copy. I'm surprised it compiled for you.Happy programming! ÂNicholas Stern
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