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Problem finding Bond Futures
rajeev sareen
posted Apr 24, 2020

Im trying to obtain history for bond futures eg TY, FV, US but even though the quantopian documentation says they are available, I get an error message below. Can anyone help me

fut = symbols('TYM20')

NoSuchSymbols Traceback (most recent call last)
in ()
----> 1 fut = symbols('TYM20')

/build/src/qexec_repo/qexec/research/api.py in symbols(symbols, symbol_reference_date, handle_missing) 453 symbol_reference_date=symbol_reference_date,
454 handle_missing=handle_missing,
--> 455 readers=readers,
456 )
457

/build/src/qexec_repo/qexec/research/_api.py in inner_symbols(symbols, symbol_reference_date, handle_missing, readers) 224
225 if len(securities) == 0:
--> 226 raise NoSuchSymbols(symbols)
227
228 if symbols_is_scalar:

NoSuchSymbols: Failed to find securities matching ['TYM20']

2 responses
Dan Whitnable
Apr 24, 2020

Quantopian has stopped updating futures data as of November 2018. One can analyze and backtest data before that time but there is not any more current data beyond that. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.

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Ian Scott
Jul 12, 2020

Wait, they stopped updating for ALL futures data? wow, that's big.
Also, no sentiment impact score? Quantopian is losing it's value...

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