Setting holding period

yjy

Hi, I'm new to backtrader and have been looking for solutions on preset holding period while backtesting.

Here is what I'm looking to achieve:

Suppose I have a strategy that says, go long a stock if condition A happens and go short a stock if condition B happens. For each position, the holding period of the trade is 1 month.

Is there an easy way to do that?

Thanks!

backtrader

The logic in the strategy has to remember when a position was entered, probably in notify_order by checking the date from the notified order

order.executed.dt which can be translated to a datetime instance like this for example: order.data.num2date(order.executed.dt)`

And then checking when the data hits a month later self.data.datetime, where you can get instances with self.data.datetime.datetime() for example.