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Fundamental data not available in backtesting

Hi, it seems like backtesting is broken this morning when one include fundamental pipeline data.

J

4 responses

Hi Julien,
We're seeing the errors on our end. We're investigating. Thanks for the heads up.

Josh

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This issue has been resolved.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Hi Josh, even the simplest 2 months long backtest using fundamental data still immediately times out before even starting. I think it either broke or has not been resolved.

Hi Julien, if you can provide more detail in a help ticket, we can probably sort it out. Previously I was running a simple algo that grabs market cap. When you reported the issue I was getting a connection error. It no longer occurs and the algo runs.

Thanks
Josh

from quantopian.algorithm import attach_pipeline, pipeline_output  
from quantopian.pipeline import Pipeline  
from quantopian.pipeline.data import morningstar

def initialize(context):

    # Create and attach an empty Pipeline.  
    pipe = Pipeline()  
    pipe = attach_pipeline(pipe, name='my_pipeline')

    pipe.add(morningstar.valuation.market_cap.latest, 'market_cap')

def before_trading_start(context, data):  
    # Access results using the name passed to `attach_pipeline`.  
    results = pipeline_output('my_pipeline')  
    print results.sort('market_cap', ascending=False).head(10)

    # Define a universe with the results of a Pipeline.  
    update_universe(results.sort('market_cap', ascending=False).index[:10])  

def handle_data(context, data):  
    pass