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Question on Paper trading

Hi,

In my backtest I seem to use daily data (close prices) for signal generation which I am comfortable with and happy. When I try the paper trading environment it seems to be using minute data. Is that correct and if so how do I change it to just read "close prices" for signals?

thanks,
hk k

3 responses

This has been a common request. With the help of Quantopian's incoming intern (who will introduce himself later), I put together an example algo. You can clone this and modify it. You can either queue up orders and execute them at the end of the day, or you can have a set of code that only executes at the end of the day, depending on how you change it.

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Hi Dan,

Thank you for your response. Does this mean that my signals will still be based of daily eod data? Ideally i want to generate signals on the prior eod value and execute at first order of the day.

hk k

That isn't exactly what the code does, but you certainly could modify it to behave that way. Just adjust the "risk" to 0 minutes and the order will be placed based on the last minute of the day.