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Returning multiple values in Pipeline CustomFactor

Anyway to return multiple arrays or values through CustomFactors?

Let's say I wanted to calculate the growth rates, return those, and also return the correlation of these growth rates:

class RatesAndMatrix(CustomFactor):  
class AvgRates(CustomFactor):  
    inputs = [USEquityPricing.close]  
    window_length = 100  
    def compute(self, today, assets, out, close):  
        rates = (close[:, 1:]/close[:, :-1]) - 1  
        corr = corrcoef(rates)  
        nans = isnan(rates)  
        notnan = ~nans  
        out[notnan] = rates[notnan], corr[notnan]  
        out[nans] = nan  

and then in def initialize(context):

rates, corr = RatesAndMatrix()  

This doesn't work, however.

2 responses

Hi Alexander,

As of now, you can only return one value per custom factor. I can see why returning multiple values might be more efficient and I'll pass it along as a feature request.

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