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Optimize API MaxTurnover constraint - is it supported?

The constraint MaxTurnover is described on:

https://www.quantopian.com/posts/optimize-api-now-available-in-algorithms

However, I don't see it on:

https://www.quantopian.com/help

Is it supported?

2 responses

Hi Grant. We don't have have any immediate plans to remove or deprecate MaxTurnover, but we haven't been focusing on it much because it's not clear whether using a hard constraint (and all Optimize API constraints are hard constraints right now) is actually a reasonable strategy for limiting turnover. In particular, when combined with other constraints, it's pretty easy for MaxTurnover to cause mutually-unsatisfiable sets of portfolio constraints (for example, if you have a tight DollarNeutralconstraint and a MaxTurnover constraint, you can end up infeasible if your portfolio shifts too far away from dollar neutral between orders).

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Thanks Scott -

So I guess one way to address the problem would be with a try-except thingy that would strip away the MaxTurnover constraint, and try the optimization again (unless you have a better idea).