live broker with ccxt - next() not called

Stacy Bingeback

I'm using the bt-ccxt-store library to connect backtrader to ccxt. Tested it with the binance crypto exchange and it worked alright.
Now I wanted to switch to the FTX exchange. Using ccxt in isolation works alright so I know that my keys work. I get ohlcv data. But when I plug it into backtrader the way I did with binance, for some reason the next() method is not being called.

My questions are:

how do I go about debugging this?
what are the typical reasons why next() wouldn't be called?
could something wrong with my ohlcv data be a reason? and if yes, why are there no error messages?

thanks for reading!

Stacy Bingeback

After reading some more about the strategy lifecycle I want to add that the longest period in my indicators is 420 bars and I'm getting 450 minutes worth of ohlcv data with "Minutes" timeframe:

    history_length_in_minutes = 450
    hist_start_date = dt.datetime.utcnow() - dt.timedelta(minutes=history_length_in_minutes)
    data = store.getdata(
        dataname='SOL/USD',
        name="SOL/USD",
        timeframe=bt.TimeFrame.Minutes,
        fromdate=hist_start_date,
        compression=1,
        ohlcv_limit=history_length_in_minutes,
        drop_newest=True
    )

I see that prenext is being called but nextstart and next never are. It would seem that my strategy hasn't seen enough data yet but like I wrote above, 420 bars should have been enough.

Stacy Bingeback

Guess I should've played around with that 450 limit some more before posting... It turns out that i need to retrieve 571 or more ticks before my strategy can run. I have no clue why but right now i'm just happy it's working.