How to update access token of oanda while paper trading

Monil Shah

Hi,
I have a problem while doing paper-trading for 15 days. As Oanda token expires and I can not refresh the program as I will lose initial positioning and open orders. Is there any method in which I can update the token in backtrader while the program is running. I have tried to change the token in next() method.

def next(self):
       self.logdata(self.original)
       if not self.data_live:
           return



       if self.data_live and not eq_sod < datetime.datetime.now().time() < eq_eod:
          
           print(datetime.datetime.now())
           new_access_token=input("Please enter access token:")
           self.cerebro.stores[0].p.access_token = new_access_token
           self.cerebro.stores[0].oapi.access_token = new_access_token
           print(datetime.datetime.now())

After updating the token, there is no response from the broker.

13375,2019-12-23T13:24:00,Original,333.15000,333.50000,333.10000,333.35000,84248.00000
***** Original DATA NOTIF: LIVE
13376,2019-12-23T13:26:00,Original,333.60000,333.65000,333.55000,333.55000,232467653.00000
2019-12-23 13:26:01.577574
Please enter access token:a340646bf6d99a52054098961a53abb72d17b007
2019-12-23 13:27:16.912265
2019-12-23 13:27:16.912329

backtrader

You are for sure using:

https://github.com/ftomassetti/backtrader-oandav20

Without looking at the code I would dare to say that the store doesn't re-open the connection simply because you update a couple of attribute members whilst trading.

You will have to ask the author(s) to add a method to do such a thing, something like this from within the strategy

self.broker.update_token(my_new_token)

and have this method creating a new connection to Oanda which will replace the existing one.