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Historic Factors

Is there a way of accessing historic factors from the pipeline so you can perform online selection of factors/calculate the information coefficient?

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Not that I am aware of, though that would be very useful. At the moment, I think any factor which needs access to previous values of a factor means combining those two into one massive calculation and doing it all inside the calculate of a custom factor.

Thanks Simon, that's a shame. It would be great if the history function was able to access historic values of the pipeline output or if the factor class had access to previous values.