Quick Start Data Referenced but Not sourced?

[branhoff]

I've been trying to follow along in my own local enviornement with the quickstart guide.

One thing that's tripping me up is in the section on adding a data feed.

In the code we have something like:

def example_3():
    """adding a data feed"""
    cerebro = bt.Cerebro()

    modpath = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(sys.argv[0]))
    datapath = os.path.join(modpath, 'datas', 'orcl-1995-2014.txt')

    data = bt.feeds.YahooFinanceCSVData(
        dataname=datapath,
        fromdate=datetime.datetime(2000, 1, 1),
        todate=datetime.datetime(2000, 12, 31),
        reverse=False
    )

    cerebro.adddata(data)

    cerebro.broker.setcash(100000.0)

    print('Starting Portfolio Value: %.2f' % cerebro.broker.getvalue())

    cerebro.run()

    print('Final Portfolio Value: %.2f' % cerebro.broker.getvalue())

Where is this

orc1-1995-2014.txt

coming from? Is it expecting us to download some data from Yahoo Finance or something?

[LeggoMaEggo]

The datas are located here: https://github.com/mementum/backtrader/tree/master/datas

[branhoff]

@leggomaeggo Ah, thank you. That's a big help. Not sure where I missed that mentioned in the documentation.