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    • Li Mike
      Li Mike last edited by

      The document says "Data Feeds, Indicators and Strategies have lines.". I wonder what lines there are in a strategy. In strategy.py, there is a definition ines = ('datetime',) under class Strategy, so I gusess that the line in a strategy is datetime line, am I right?

      Another question is when we define our own strategy sub class, we can use len(self) to get bars processed. I wonder if the len(self) return the length of datetime line until now?

      any help is appreciated.

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      • run-out
        run-out last edited by

        To answer your question regarding len(self), it will return the running count of how many bars have been processed.

        def next(self):
    self.log(f"Number of bars {len(self)}")

        Using a file I have with 100 bars for testing, the results are as follows:
        '''
        /home/runout/projects/scratch/venv/bin/python "/home/runout/projects/scratch/20200713 lines_question.py"
        2020-02-03 09:01:00, Number of bars 1
        2020-02-03 09:02:00, Number of bars 2
        2020-02-03 09:03:00, Number of bars 3
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        Process finished with exit code 0

        '''

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        • run-out
          run-out last edited by

          The 'lines' are typically whatever you put into your strategy. The starting point would be your trading data, OHLCV open interest. This of course would have a datetime element.

          But you could also add custom information or signal lines to your trading data using a custom data class and these custom data lines would also show up in your strategy.

          And then also you could use indicators in your strategies which have lines defined as part of the indicator or defined by you in a custom indicator.

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          • Li Mike
            Li Mike last edited by

            Thank you for your help. According to my understanding, self.datas[0] holds lines such as open, close, high, etc. Do you mean strategies also have these lines? Could we print out the name of a line by some api?

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            • run-out
              run-out @Li Mike last edited by

              @Li-Mike said in what lines are there in a strategy?:

              Could we print out the name of a line by some api?

              When putting your data in, make sure you add a name.

              cerebro.adddata(data, name="AAPL")

              Then you can retrieve the name of the data line as follows:

              self.datas[0]._name

              With the number '0' being the number indicating the order the lines were entered into the system.

              If by chance you need to reteive datalines buy name, as opposed to just printing the name, I have had success building a dictionary by looping through all my datas and making the key from the name, and putting the data object in as the value.

              # Goes through the datas and makes a lookup dictionary of {symbols:d}
self.stock_list = {}
for d in self.datas:
    self.stock_list[d._name] = d

              This way you can find the AAPL data object like:

              self.stock_list["AAPL"]
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              • Li Mike
                Li Mike last edited by

                Thank you for your kindly help and your patience. I am not good at English. So I may not express my idea clearly.

                Let me give a pseudo code:

                for l in self.datas[0].lines:
            print(l.name)

                I expect it to print out 'close', 'high', 'low', 'open', etc. Can we achieve this?

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                • run-out
                  run-out @Li Mike last edited by

                  @Li-Mike No problem, your English is fine. I think you are trying for:

                  for l in self.datas[0].datafields:
    print(l)

                  Output

                  datetime, open, high, low, close, volume, openinterest,
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                  • Li Mike
                    Li Mike last edited by

                    That's what I want, thank you.

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