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Enhancement: Increasing the limit of manually-entered SIDs to 200 in IDE
Alisa Deychman
posted May 29, 2014

We’re increasing the number of SIDs that you can manually enter in your algorithm from 100 to 200. This gives you the ability to create a larger stock universe and more freedom in your algorithm.

For our built-in methods, the SID limits are:
- set_universe allows you to initialize 2% (~160 stocks) in minute mode or 10% (~800 stocks) in daily mode.
- Fetcher lets you to create a custom universe of 200 securities. Within Fetcher, you can use the new universe_func to screen stocks or have them dynamically enter your algorithm.

As a reminder, larger stock universes generally pay the price of slower performance. Depending on the transformations and computations in your algo, you may run into memory or CPU limitations using a larger trading universe.

We’re working on other ways to enhance the coding experience and make it easier to develop your strategies!

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