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why is "context.portfolio.positions[sid].cost_basis" not working?

Hi,
The problem is in the line between 329 and 334. Basically costBasis and marketPrice is always returning zero even though it shouldn't. So "if (float(marketPrice) / max(float(costBasis),0.01)) > 1.1:" never become True. I want stocks to get out once I made 10% return. Could you please help me understand what I am missing?

1 response

After following up with Ujae via email, we determined that the issue was on line 329:

for sid in context.portfolio.positions.items():  

should have been:

for sid in context.portfolio.positions:  

as .items() returns a tuple for each key/value pair in the positions dictionary. This meant that sid was being assigned to a tuple in each iteration of the for loop, instead of the sid.

As a side note, naming a variable sid is discouraged as it's easy to confuse with the sid() function! So doing something like:

for stock in context.portfolio.positions:  

is preferred.

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