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Different Timeframes in Factors for Pipelines

Hi guys,

I've been trying to use a SMA in a weekly timeframe as factor in a pipeline, but the usual "resample" can't be done.

Anyone dealt with this ?

Any help is appreciated.

Btw, happy holidays :D

3 responses

resample should be a fine solution. I repurposed the answer from here and wrote some sample code to do the resampling.

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Thanks for the reply, Dunn.

Unfortunately, resample does not work with pipelines (to the best of my knowledge). This works with data.history() because it returns a TYPE pandas.core.series.Series

Factors in Pipelines use USEquityPricing which returns a numpy.ndarray.

If I'm wrong, please can you clarify on how to use a different timeframe ?

I think I got it... maybe using a preselection of pipeline, feeding each returned symbol into a the data.history request and resampling would do the trick. But I assume the work will consume much more power, memory and time to run.

Anyone has a better idea?