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I'm building a model that uses options collars with dividend stocks. I must have the actualy ex-dividend date for my entries. I have found ..BalanceSheet.DividendsPayable, but I have not seen ex-dates. Can someone please tell me where this information is retrievable?
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Hi everyone,
Please refer to our previous thread on this topic. We want to try to avoid duplicate threads in the community.
Best,
Derek Melchin
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Dave Mueller
Following as I am also interested in this data
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Craig McWilliams
Hi Dave,
Thank you for joining me on this. I think I found the answer, but have not yet figured how to implement. The data element is:
TradingDayType.EquityDividends, which is (allegedly) the Ex-Dividend Date.
https://www.quantconnect.com/lean/docs#topic100.html
Please let me know if you derive an implementation as I will post what I learn here too.
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Dave Mueller
Hi Craig!
Thanks for sharing that. If a TradingDay is an Equity Dividend, wouldn't that make the ex-dividend date two days prior? I'm not 100% but I thought that the ex-dividend date was always two days before the payment date, meaning, in order to be eligible to receieve a dividend you must have held a position on or before the ex dividend date. Maybe I should confirm this as my memory is fuzzy on the subject.
I'll have a little time to dig into this over the next few days. Please let me know if you find anything new!
Best,
David
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Derek Melchin
Hi Craig and Dave,
Our API does not currently provide ex-dividend dates. In the source code, the following remark is listed for EquityDividends: "Not used yet. For future use."
Best,
Derek Melchin
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Craig McWilliams
Hi Derek, thank you for that information. It helped save me time.
Are you able to tell us when this may be implemented?
I understand there is a way to import external data. Do you have any documentation that may help get me started importing dividend dates, other than what is generally available on the site?
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Craig McWilliams
Thank you Derek. I will indeed. I signed up for tutoring 1-2-1 with Rahul, as well.
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Travis Teichelmann
When I add the top method to Initialize I receive a message that OneBillion doesn't exist in the current context. I've tried changing it to an integer and looking for members that in DollarVolume property but couldn't find anything. Any thoughts?
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Michael Handschuh
You can add
const decimal OneBillion = 1000m*1000m*1000m;. It's just a constant to find stocks with volumes over a billion, Likewise, you could change the volume filter to anything you like!The material on this website is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell, a solicitation to buy, or a recommendation or endorsement for any security or strategy, nor does it constitute an offer to provide investment advisory services by QuantConnect. In addition, the material offers no opinion with respect to the suitability of any security or specific investment. QuantConnect makes no guarantees as to the accuracy or completeness of the views expressed in the website. The views are subject to change, and may have become unreliable for various reasons, including changes in market conditions or economic circumstances. All investments involve risk, including loss of principal. You should consult with an investment professional before making any investment decisions.
Travis Teichelmann
Perfect! Thank you for updating the code. I modified what you provided to filter the securities based on price. Now all I need to do is implement a gap up and gap percentage method then I can move on to other parts of my algo. Here's what I did.
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Stephen Oehler
So this might be a dumb question, but can you apply indicators to the coarse universe selection function? Wondering if I could say, for example, "grab all stocks whose 1-year momentum percent is greater than 10%". :-) Excellent work guys!
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Stephen Oehler
Ah found it in an older thread, sorry about that! For those who come here wondering the same thing, here is how you conduct technical analysis in the Coarse Universe filter: https://github.com/QuantConnect/Lean/blob/master/Algorithm.CSharp/EmaCrossUniverseSelectionAlgorithm.cs
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Travis Teichelmann
Stephen - You can use indicators on the universe selection, that's actually what I'm working on right now. I've been using the link you provided in another post. https://github.com/QuantConnect/Lean/blob/master/Algorithm.CSharp/EmaCrossUniverseSelectionAlgorithm. Community - I've been looking at the LogReturns indicator and found a way to compare the difference in the current price with yesterday's close. Translating those findings into the coarse universe selection is a bit more tricky. Similar to what Stephen was saying, I want to scan the entire universe for stocks that have gapped up. Then scan those to find ones that have the highest gain. This is one of the biggest parts of my strategy and I've been working on it for a while. So if you could point me in the right direction or give me an example that would be fantastic. Best, -Travis
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Michael Handschuh
Hey Travis, you don't need to copy all of your indicators into the project. They should be available without adding the file. Sadly the gap open condition requires open and close prices, but the coarse universe data set only has the daily closing price, so I'm not sure you can detect gap up/down on open. If you're just looking for stocks that had the largest one day gains, take a look at this example algorithm. I used the WSJ top gainers page to find stocks that gained the most in one day... and then shorted them!
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Stephen Oehler
Hi Michael, Quick question for ya: If you have indicators that are being used within the Coarse Universe Linq statement, are your indicators updated daily or are they updated at the pace of the Universe Resolution? Example of the indicators being declared and updated within the Linq statement: https://github.com/QuantConnect/Lean/blob/master/Algorithm.CSharp/EmaCrossUniverseSelectionAlgorithm.cs I'm getting too-good-to-be-true results in my algorithm. It uses a certain indicator that requires 20 days of daily data. My Universe resolution is set to minute though, and I'm wondering if I'm getting a self-fulfilling prophecy problem here (maybe benefiting from fill-forwarding?).
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Travis Teichelmann
Micheal - Can you backtest live data or is it exclusive to live mode? I've tried to run this algorithm live and made sure the links to WSJ were functional though no trades are being made. I was also inspecting the HTML on the site to find more data to parse. It doesn't seem to be pulling in any data even after I left it running overnight. Trying to run a price filter where d.Price
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Stephen Oehler
Hi Travis, I thought I saw someone use custom data with their backtest. Is that the same as "live data" in this case? https://www.quantconnect.com/forum/discussion/418/bubble-algorithm-using-cape-ratio-macd-and-rsi#Item_12 Hopefully I'm not misunderstanding you!
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Michael Handschuh
When using indicators in any universe selection function, they will be updated at the same frequency as the universe gets updated. In the case of coarse universes, they will update on a daily time frame. Another thing to note is that we do not apply fill forward to universe selection. If you need more help please post an algorithm demonstrating your issue/concern.
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Michael Handschuh
Travis - I'll run the algorithm over this evening with some debugging to see if things are working as expected. Did you make any changes to the example algorithm? I'm not sure what you mean by 'backtest live data.' The NyseTopGainers custom data type is written to support both live and backtesting cases. It supports the backtest case by hitting dropbox (I made a small script to scrape the pages and built a csv from it)
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Stephen Oehler
Great, thanks for the validation, Michael!
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Michael Handschuh
Clarification on my above statement: We don't apply fill forward to the universe selection data itself, but subscriptions added via universe selection can be set to have fill forward data using the UniverseSettings.FillForward property. This is set to true by default.
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