Hello William,

I don't have time to work up an example now, but I suggest reading the help docs on the 'history' API. There's a native way to do it. Specifically, note:

Returned Data
The returned data for daily history, for each day, is:

open_price: the open of the first minute bar of the given day.
high: the maximum of the minute highs for the given day.
low: the minimum of the minute bar lows for the given day.
close_price: the close of the last minute bar in the specified period. This value is not forward-filled. If there is no price in the bar, the returned price is NaN.
price: the close of the last minute bar as of the specified period. This value is forward-filled. If there is no price in the bar, the returned price is the previous price, until there is new trade data available.
volume: the sum of all minute volumes. For the current day, the sum of volume thus far.

Grant

Thanks for the reply Grant; unfortunately I'm still lost. If anyone could dive in a bit deeper it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

William,

Here's something you can play around with. It illustrates that you always get the open price for the day using:

O = history(1,'1d','open_price')  

There's a bit of a learning curve to using the 'history' API, but it is well worth the effort.

Grant

in daily mode you dont need that scheduling right, you only work with close prices but can get the high & low prices

Hi William,

Schedule_function is powerful. In your initialize function, write something like the following:

schedule_function(handle_data_daily, date_rules.every_day(), time_rules.market_open(minutes=1))  

You would then create a function called "handle_data_daily" with whatever code you want to run at 9:31:00 AM EST every day (because the schedule_function above is telling your program to run "handle_data_daily" at market_open + 1). You MUST keep "handle_data" separate as your default function for minutely action (you cannot use schedule_function on handle_data, as far as I know)

Here's an example to get you started:

def initialize(context):  
    schedule_function(handle_data_daily, date_rules.every_day(), time_rules.market_open(minutes=1))

def handle_data_daily(context, data):  
    global my_open  
    open_price = history(bar_count=10, frequency='1d', field='open_price')  
    for stock in data:  
        my_open = open_price[stock][-1] #[-1] pulls latest open value

def handle_data(context, data):  
    global my_open  
    #do something with "my_open"  

Global declarations aren't exactly Pythonic but they allow you to use the same variable in multiple functions. I've yet to find a better way to do this but there might be.

Hope that helps!