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Help! Syntax problems?

Put any initialization logic here. The context object will be passed to

the other methods in your algorithm.

def initialize(context):
context.stocks = symbols('XLY', # XLY Consumer Discrectionary SPDR Fund
'XLF', # XLF Financial SPDR Fund
'XLK', # XLK Technology SPDR Fund
'XLE', # XLE Energy SPDR Fund
'XLV', # XLV Health Care SPRD Fund
'XLI', # XLI Industrial SPDR Fund
'XLP', # XLP Consumer Staples SPDR Fund
'XLB', # XLB Materials SPDR Fund
'XLU') # XLU Utilities SPRD Fund

def handle_data(context, data):
for stock in context.stocks:
ma1 = data[stock].mavg(50)
ma2 = data[stock].mavg(200)

    price = data[stock].price  

    if ma1 > ma2:  
        order_target_percent(stock, 0.11)  

        elif ma1 < ma2:  
            order_target_percent(stock, -0.11)  
2 responses

I couldn't really tell from what you pasted what the syntax issue was, probably due to the markdown changing things up but, here is an algo that operates on the signal generating logic you laid out above.

This would be a great use case for the Quantopian Pipeline API!

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Hi Alexander,

It looks like the syntax error might be stemming from the extra indentation before your elif ma1 < ma2. This is what I saw when I copied and pasted your code, though as James said, the markdown changing things might be causing this. His version of the code is correct and I recommend you use it!

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