Check Market Trading Day

cwse

Hi,

How can I check the current market trading day in the next() loop?

Should i add the market index (say "XJO") to the data feed, then in the next() statement, as I loop over my many datafeeds, have something like this if I were to only consider buys/sells on a MONDAY?:

weekday = self.data['XJO'].datetime.date().isoweekday()
if weekday == 1:
    ...assess stocks...

Thanks again for your help!

backtrader

isoweekday Python 2 Docs - datetime - isoweekday returns 1 as Monday, so it would be the value to check.

cwse

@backtrader thanks but I am wanting to know if the self.data['XJO']...is the way to go if I want to use a market index data freed called 'XJO' as the date reference point?

backtrader

That depends if you have put a dict with the asset in the key XJO under self.data. You would be overwriting one of the automatically created references (in this case to self.datas[0]), but it is up to the developer to do so if wished.

If not, then see getdatabyname

Docs - Strategy Reference

backtrader

Check out also this thread where a discussion on the same topic on access by name has also started: Community - Multi-asset ranking and rebalancing