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Trade a stock using a moving average crossover of a different stock
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I just installed backtrader (thanks, developers) and ran the example that trades MSFT using a moving average crossover of MSFT. How do you test a strategy that trades MSFT using the moving average crossover of another symbol, for example QQQ?
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This is no problem. First you need to enter two symbols, QQQ and MSFT. You'll need to know the order entered. I like to put the signal first, so QQQ would be datas[0] and MSFT would be datas[1].
Calculate a moving average crossover indicator in the
initor a custom indicator class on the datas[0] line which is QQQ in this example.Then in next you can use the moving average crossover indicator to trigger your buy, but then use
self.datas[1]to trade MSFT -
