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Manually adding stocks to Pipeline

I'm very new to Quantopian and am trying to add SPY to an algorithm that trades during earnings period.

The pipeline is set to filter stocks within 3 days of earnings reports only. Is there a way to manually add SPY and use it as hedge?

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certainly. just add a variable in your def initialize

context.hedge = symbol('SPY')  
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certainly. just add a variable in your def initialize

context.hedge = symbol('SPY')  

Hi James,

I am still a little confused on this topic. I have used pipeline to filter out stocks based on custom factors , but am having trouble doing something much more simple. I want to add two stocks only to pipeline, and be able to read the value of the upcoming earnings date each morning in before_trade_start. Is there a simple way to do this in a few lines of code?

Thanks

Frank