Buying N day high for trend following

[mpgentleman]

I'm having trouble with a simple trend following strategy of buying 55 day highs. I tried using something similar to the Ichimoku indicator.

hi_bar = Highest(self.data.high, period=self.p.period)

I get an error that Highest is not recognized.

Thanks,

[RandyT]

Seeing the code would make this easier to answer, but you are likely not importing these classes into your strategy code.

Something as follows:

import backtrader as bt
import backtrader.indicators as btind

hi_bar = btind.Highest(self.data.high, period=self.p.period)

[backtrader]

The code by @randyt is 100% ok. Some versions ago and to reduce the number of needed imports, the main package gives direct access to subpackages, so you may also do

import backtrader as bt

...
   hi_bar = bt.indicators.Highest(...)
...

of for even less typing

import backtrader as bt

...
   hi_bar = bt.ind.Highest(...)
...