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Data.can_trade- Trouble with the "Asset" Argument

Running a simple order function like this:

for stock in context.long_list:
if data.can_trade(stock):
order_target(stock,1)

It gives me the following error: "TypeError: Expected assets argument to be of type or iterable of type Asset"

Can anyone help me understand why this is happening? Thank you in advance!

1 response

Hi Gil, it's hard to know the exact problem without seeing more code, but I would guess that the problem is that context.long_list is a Pandas Series. So try replacing context.long_list in the for loop with context.long_list.index and see if that fixes it. If it doesn't, would you mind running a full backtest and attaching it in a reply to this thread so I can help you better?

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