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Help filter out ETFs from setUniverse

I use set_universe(universe.DollarVolumeUniverse(floor_percentile=98.0,ceiling_percentile=100.0)) in my algorithm. However it returns stocks as well as ETFs. How can I filter out the ETFs?

1 response

Hey Pavy,

Unfortunately, we don't have any quick way to filter out ETFs from set_universe. One way to go about it would be to use 'fetch_csv()' to import a list of symbols that you want to exclude, and in 'handle_data()' exclude those stocks from the universe.

Something like:

def handle_data(context, data):  
    #: Remove all stocks that aren't valid  
    to_remove = []  
    #: Add all stocks to be removed into a list  
    for stock in data:  
        #: data['to_remove'] being the CSV you imported in using fetch_csv(link, symbol='to_remove')  
        if stock in data['to_remove']:  
           to_remove.append(stock)  
    #: Go through list and delete stocks  
    for i in to_remove:  
        del data[i]  

Hope that helps!

Seong

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