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Paper trading algorithms will be restarted on Monday
Cal Mitchell
posted Nov 2, 2018

Earlier today, many community members reported that their paper trading algorithms were failing due to the following error:

HoldoutError: Pipeline attempted to access data that is held out of research and backtesting. Outside of the contest, the following datasets are only available through 2018-11-01: - quantopian.pipeline.data.EquityPricing

We diagnosed and fixed this error today, and will be restarting the stopped algorithms on Monday. There is no further action required on your part.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

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7 responses
BGRM
Nov 2, 2018

Awesome Cal. Thanks for the help.

Sudip Chatterjee
Nov 13, 2018

Hi, we are still facing the same issue, any clue on the development deadlines.....

Sudip Chatterjee
Nov 13, 2018

There was a runtime error.
HoldoutError: Pipeline attempted to access data that is held out of research and backtesting.

Outside of the contest, the following datasets are only available
through 2017-11-12:
- quantopian.pipeline.data.factset.Fundamentals

Cal Mitchell
Nov 13, 2018

Hi Sudip, where are you encountering this error?

Pieter-Jan
Nov 17, 2018

Hi Cal
I got the same error 2 days ago when paper trading my algorithm

"Outside of the contest, the following datasets are only available through 2017-11-14: - quantopian.pipeline.data.factset.Fundamentals"

Is this already fixed?
Pieter-Jan

Sudip Chatterjee
Nov 21, 2018

Hi Cal,
Pieter is right.
I was also getting the error in quantopian.pipeline.data.factset.Fundamentals

Hope this is fixed

Cal Mitchell
Nov 27, 2018

Sudip, Pieter, thank you for the feedback.

Because the FactSet fundamental dataset has a year long holdout period, you will be unable to paper trade with it. You can read more about the holdout period on this post, under the "Data Holdout Period" heading. The only way recent FactSet data can be accessed (outside of Quantopian Enterprise) is by submitting an algorithm to the daily contest.

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The material on this website is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell, a solicitation to buy, or a recommendation or endorsement for any security or strategy, nor does it constitute an offer to provide investment advisory services by Quantopian.

In addition, the material offers no opinion with respect to the suitability of any security or specific investment. No information contained herein should be regarded as a suggestion to engage in or refrain from any investment-related course of action as none of Quantopian nor any of its affiliates is undertaking to provide investment advice, act as an adviser to any plan or entity subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, individual retirement account or individual retirement annuity, or give advice in a fiduciary capacity with respect to the materials presented herein. If you are an individual retirement or other investor, contact your financial advisor or other fiduciary unrelated to Quantopian about whether any given investment idea, strategy, product or service described herein may be appropriate for your circumstances. All investments involve risk, including loss of principal. Quantopian makes no guarantees as to the accuracy or completeness of the views expressed in the website. The views are subject to change, and may have become unreliable for various reasons, including changes in market conditions or economic circumstances.