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no Daily mode, really?

I've begun the tedious process of converting all my algos to Quantopian 2. Most of mine were daily strategies and I see now that there is no daily mode anymore.

Could someone please provide an example patch for converting the minute data to the daily OHLC?

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Hi Chris,

The best way to get daily data for specified equities is to use data.history. Here's the documentation on it. If you want the previous day's OHLC, you would do something like this:

data.history(sid(24), 'high', 2, '1d')[-2]  

We index in and take the second-to-last element because the last is the data so far for the current day. So if you want today's open, you would do:

data.history(sid(24), 'open', 1, '1d')[-1]  
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Thanks, I need to RTFM :)

There is also a good explanation on our Quantopian2 guide too: https://www.quantopian.com/quantopian2/migration#daily-v-minute

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