According to the reference, Securities is a Dictionary<Symbol, Security>
so you can access your Security objects with their ticker Securities["IBM"].Price
.
However, in the sample RiskManagementModels, this is used:
for kvp in algorithm.Securities:symbol = kvp.Key
security = kvp.Value
How does the above construction work? I am a relative beginner, but from what I know about dictionaries, kvp would be the key and Securities[kvp] would be the individual security.
Derek Melchin
Hi Tamim,
The Securities object behaves like a Python dictionary in regards to how we access it with keys. But under the hood, it's a C# class. Thus, when we iterate over it with
for kvp in algorithm.Securities:
`kvp` is of type System.Collections.Generic.
That is why, in this case, we access the key and value with
kvp.Key kvp.Value
If instead, we iterate over the object with
for kvp, val in self.Securities.items():
`kvp` will be of type Symbol and `val` will be of type Security.
See the attached backtest and logs for reference.
Best,
Derek Melchin
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