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Scheduling Times of the Day to Run This Trade
Chris Cunliffe
posted Dec 1, 2014

I'm new to Quantopian and I've being playing around with some of the sample.

My question is similar to the one I posted in this thread (https://www.quantopian.com/posts/timed-restriction-on-re-buying-stock), I've been trying to get the schedule function working with this algorithm (as it might be a solution to my previous problem of having too many trades in a day), but I keep getting an error whenever I try to add a schedule.

I'm basically looking to have the algo run four times a day; at open, at close, 90 minutes after open and 90 minutes before close.

I'd really appreciate if someone could show me how to add that to this algo.

Thanks.

5 responses
Gregory Milne
Dec 1, 2014

Chris,

See the attached and let me know if you have questions. That should do what you're looking for if I understood your post correctly.

Chris Cunliffe
Dec 3, 2014

Thanks Greg. This works great.

WEI LI
Dec 9, 2014

Hi guys, I am also new and working on schedule_function. Does anyone know how to use a loop to call a function every minutes? I tried the sample on the Help page, it didn't work on my algo for some reason. Thanks.

David Edwards
Dec 9, 2014

You can do something like this, it schedules the function to be called every 10 minutes.

WEI LI
Dec 10, 2014

Thanks, David. That is very helpful!

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