[HELP] Store the buying value of an asset

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Hi everyone, I am new and I have a problem in my code, I try to store the buying value as soon as I buy and it does not work
I just want to store this value to calculate a simply stop loss, but I have this error :
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'selling_price' referenced before assignment
I also tried with context.selling_price = data.current(context.spy, 'price') but the problem is the same.
Is someone have an idea ? Thanks

Here is my code

def initialize(context):  
    context.spy = sid(5061)  
    set_commission(commission.PerShare(cost=0.001, min_trade_cost=1))  
    schedule_function(open_positions, date_rules.every_day(), time_rules.market_open(hours=1))  
def open_positions(context, data):  
    open_orders = get_open_orders()  
    sma_20 = data.history(context.spy, 'price', 20, '1d').mean()  
    sma_50 = data.history(context.spy, 'price', 50, '1d').mean()  
    current_price = data.current(context.spy, 'price')  
    record(mma20=sma_20, mma50=sma_50, leverage = context.account.leverage, prix_actuel=current_price)  
    if sma_20 > sma_50:  
        if context.spy not in open_orders and data.can_trade(context.spy):  
            order_target_percent(context.spy, 1)  
            buying_price = data.current(context.spy, 'price')  

    elif sma_50 > sma_20:  
        if context.spy not in open_orders and data.can_trade(context.spy):  
            order_target_percent(context.spy, -1)  
            selling_price = data.current(context.spy, 'price')  
    #stop loss  
    if context.spy not in open_orders and data.can_trade(context.spy) and current_price <= 0.999*buying_price:  
        print 'boucle1'  
        order_target_percent(context.spy, -1)  
    if context.spy not in open_orders and data.can_trade(context.spy) and current_price >= 1.001*selling_price:  
        print 'boucle2'  
        order_target_percent(context.spy, 1)

2 responses

Blue Seahawk

Lots of reasons to want to store a value for each security. A pandas Series like this provides for sorting and a lot of other greatly useful functionality so I considered it worth demonstrating. I store a count of partial fills for example on opening positions to be able to cut them off at a threshold, if they have trouble opening, they're more likely to struggle in closing also.

So although the Series xaction_prc is good to keep in mind for future reference, you'll probably want to drop that entirely and switch over to cost_basis instead, I added cost_basis to the chart merely so you can see how to access it. In the case of transaction prices, cost_basis is usually best, it includes commissions and is continuously updated with each [partial] fill. 's' stands for stock or security by the way.

Chad Trate

i'm just starting out in python programming but it looks like where you put the selling_price = data.current(context.spy, 'price') can be bypassed by the logic before then being referenced in the if statements at the bottom

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