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Here is an example of a simple function that asks for a ticker and returns its current Yahoo Finance value. I needed this to solve for the VIX live value, hope this helps someone else as well.
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Jared Broad
Our decimal wrapper was removed. You can just remove the header `import decimal as d` and then replace the uses of it like "self.Lev = d.Decimal(1.0)" to self.Lev = 1.0
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Clemens Fruhwirth
Thank you Alex Muci for sharing the code!
I brought the code forward to run with the latest LEAN changes. Also I changed the data resolution to hourly, because the only thing requiring minute data was the rebalance done at 10:01. I moved that to 10:00. Now, the backtest runs much faster.
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