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Hi QC Team,
I am trying to port some of my algo's over from TradingView. The hour intervals end at 9:30 and so on, with the last one at 3:30. That is quite helpful since one can act before the market closes at 4pm. Could you please provide an example of say hourly EMA/SMA cross, but ending at 30' every hour.
I have tried consolidating minute to hour, but even that ends at 10am and so on.
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Rahul Chowdhury
Hey Seersquant,
You can use custom start times for consolidators by using a custom CalendarInfo object when creating a Calendar consolidator. We created a custom CalendarInfo object which starts at 9:30 am and has a period of 1 hour.
We can create a RollingWindow to hold our 1 hour bars so that we can check if a crossover has occurred with the SMA.
We also created a SymbolData class which holds the indicator, consolidator, rolling window data for each Symbol. This makes our code more organized.
Seersquant
Thanks a lot for the example, it very useful. A few quick questions on this.
Its a nice way to use the CalendarInfo to supply 1hr intervals starting at 9'30. The last tradeBar would be 30'?
this part is perfect:
period = timedelta(hours=1) # replace the time with, 30min. # 9:40 -> 9:30 # 10:05 -> 10:30 start = dt.replace(minute=30) if start > dt: # start period between 10:00 to 10:29, will be 9:30 start -= period # return, starts at 30', with a 1hr period self.algorithm.Debug("starting at: " + str(start))Could you please elaborate on the workings of this:
# will this run the function, or not yet?
hourlyConsolidator.DataConsolidated += self.OnDataConsolidated
Rahul Chowdhury
Hey Seersquant,
The last trade bar will only have 30 minutes of data. This is because the last bar includes all the data from 3:30 pm until 4:30. However since there is no data between 4 pm and 9:30 am the next day, the last bar will only contain 30 minutes of data.
If I understand your last question correctly, we set the DataConsolidated event handler for hourlyConsolidator to OnDataConsolidated. This means every time a new hourly bar is available from our consolidator, OnDataConsolidated will be called. You can test this by adding a Debug statement within OnDataConsolidated which prints the time stamp of the bar.
def OnDataConsolidated(self, sender, bar): self.algorithm.Debug(f"DataConsolidated @ {bar.Time}") .....Alexandre Catarino
Hi,
I am adding a C# version of Rahul's algorithm as requested by Magic Limited on another support channel.
Lucas Chan
Hi,
Appreciate your input here. I've added 1 line of Debug inside the handler and run Rahul's code here. I observe the handler are running weird with 2 inputs for every timestamp and 2 different SMA values.
Any idea what's going on here?
Louis Szeto
Hi Lucas
You have 2 securities in the universe, which they had both subscribed to the consolidator and updated SMA indicator accordingly. Thus, you have 2 SMAs for each security at the same time.
Best
Louis
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Seersquant
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