Hi Quantopian,
I am stuck trying to build a stock ranking system with two signals:
1. Trading Volume/Shares Outstanding.
2. Price of current day / Price of 60 days ago.
Then rank Russell 2000 stocks every month, long the top 5%, short the bottom 5%.
But I don't know how to mix Shares Outstanding with Trading Volume for a large stock universe. Can someone explain this with sample codes?
Thanks,
Bo,
The browser-based backtester doesn't support large numbers of securities. There's a kind of built-in limit of 200 stocks (there is a hack work-around, but it has several drawbacks which make it impractical).
However, the Quantopian research platform should (hopfully) support your effort. If you don't have access, you can submit an algo to the Quantopian open contest, and get preferential treatment. The contest algo can be anything (although I must imaging that the Q intent is that you would actually try to compete).
What do you mean by "mix Shares Outstanding with Trading Volume for a large stock universe"? Are you talking about taking a ratio?
Grant
Grant,
Thank you for the response. I already have access to the Research tab. I tried to call get_fundamentals() in Research, but got this error: "NameError: name 'get_fundamentals' is not defined".
Yes. I just need two ratios:
1. Ratio1 (50% weight) = Trading Volume/Shares Outstanding
2. Ratio2 (50% weight) = Price(current day) / Price(60 days ago)
Then I will rank a large stock universe, then I can buy stocks in the top 5% and sell stocks in the bottom 5%. I'd like to back test this strategy monthly. Is it possible to do in Quantopian?
Thanks,
Bo
I don't know the current status, but see:
https://www.quantopian.com/posts/get-fundamentals-slash-query-from-a-research-notebook
So, it's either available, or on the way.
Hi Bo,
Grant is correct. When backtesting in minute mode or live trading, you can scan the prices and trading volumes of a maximum of 200 stocks. We need to enforce this cap to ensure algorithms can keep up with the flow of minute level market data. That being said, we are in the process of designing and API change that will allow you to screen for price/volume for a much larger universe before trading starts each day.
In research, you can scan as large a universe as you would like for price/volume. One of our engineers is currently working on porting get_fundamentals to research. Until that is done, you can import you own "shares outstanding" data. I know you can grab individual stock's shares outstanding historical data from Ycharts and Quandl. I'll be on the lookout for a publicly available market-wide dataset.
I don't have an exact timeline for either of these new features, but know that they are coming! Stay tuned for more details.
Andrew
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Bo,
We have just launched the Pipeline API, which makes this kind of algorithm very simple to write. I've pulled it together for you, and the code is attached.
The challenge for me in writing this was guessing how you wanted the ranks ordered, but I took a guess. I'm sure you can take it from here and turn it into something profitable!
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You still are limited to getting minutely data each day on 500 securities. However, you can calculate factors across the entire tradable universe of equities, on daily data, using the pipeline API.
We hope to change the 500 limit in the near future as well, but this opens up tons of different strategies that were previously not available.
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I am a newbie..I didn't Understand this I thought pipeline will scan for all the stocks in the universe every minute, you guys didn't mention anything like this in the tutorial, Is it still 500 or it is lifted??
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