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How to speed up get_fundamentals in monthly rebalancing?

Hi,

I'm testing an algorithm that uses monthly rebalancing, based on filtering stocks using get_fundamentals(). Ideally, I would want to run get_fundamentals once per month (at rebalance time), but it seems Quantopian is running it every day, because it's forcing me to include it within the before_trading_starts() function, rather than within my scheduled rebalance() function. Is there any way to avoid this and have it run just once a month?

Thanks in advance.

1 response

In the case of before_trading_start(), you cannot yet schedule it like other functions in schedule_function().

In this case, you need to use get_datetime() or a counter to avoid triggering the get_fundamentals() call on days you don't wish to run it.

Thanks
Josh

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