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PLEASE HELP MY - LIMIT PIPELINE RESULTS

please, can anyone tell me how to limit my results from my pipeline to 200 each? any help is appreciated, below is my code for the program on which i want to impose a limit

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Hi Nathan,

I've attached a version of your algorithm where pipe_output only keeps 100 "long" stocks and 100 "short" stocks. However, the version I wrote simply keeps the first 100 (by name) of each type; you'll probably want to find a less arbitrary way to decide which 200 stocks to trade!

Note: I wrote it this way because the growth_grade field is categorical, so there are >100 A-rated stocks and >100 F- rated stocks, with no way to decide which stocks in the same category are "better" than others. In a case where your data is continuous instead of categorical, you might want to check out the .top() filter to limit your pipeline to a certain number of stocks -- take a look at the usage of .top() in the Creating Custom Factors and Fundamental Data Algorithm examples here. Hope this helps!

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