3. Problem mixing inheritance and recursive indicator
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Problem mixing inheritance and recursive indicator

  • J

    I am having a problem getting the subclassed signal from the Trix example when I generate the signal using the recursive EMA version from the blog.

    from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function,
                        unicode_literals)

import backtrader as bt
import backtrader.indicators as btind


class MyTrix(bt.Indicator):

    lines = ('trix',)
    params = (('period', 15),)

    def __init__(self):
        ema1 = btind.EMA(self.data, period=self.p.period)
        ema2 = btind.EMA(ema1, period=self.p.period)
        ema3 = btind.EMA(ema2, period=self.p.period)

        self.lines.trix = 100.0 * (ema3 - ema3(-1)) / ema3(-1)


class MyTrixSignalInherited(MyTrix):

    lines = ('signal',)
    params = (('sigperiod', 30),)

    def __init__(self):
        super(MyTrixSignalInherited, self).__init__()
        self.lines.signal = MyEMA(self.lines.trix, period=self.p.sigperiod)


class MyEMA(bt.indicators.PeriodN):
    params = {'period': 30}  # even if defined, we can redefine the default value
    lines = ('ema',)  # our output line

    def __init__(self):
        self.alpha = 2.0 / (1.0 + self.p.period)  # period -> exp smoothing factor

    def nextstart(self):  # calculate here the seed value
        self.lines.ema[0] = self.data[-1] / self.p.period

    def next(self):
        ema1 = self.lines.ema[-1]  # previous EMA value
        self.lines.ema[0] = ema1 * (1.0 - self.alpha) + self.data[0] * self.alpha

    Here is a short snippet of the output and the strategy...

    class NoStrategy(bt.Strategy):
    params = (('trixperiod', 20),
              ('analyzer', False),)

    def __init__(self):
        self.trix = MyTrixSignalInherited(self.data, period=self.p.trixperiod)

    def next(self):
        print('Trix: %.2f, Signal: %.2f' % (self.trix.trix[0], self.trix.signal[0]))

    Trix: -0.07, Signal: nan
Trix: -0.23, Signal: nan
Trix: -0.37, Signal: nan
Trix: -0.53, Signal: nan
Trix: -0.69, Signal: nan
Trix: -0.83, Signal: nan
Trix: -0.97, Signal: nan
Trix: -1.07, Signal: nan
Trix: -1.12, Signal: nan
Trix: -1.11, Signal: nan

    Any suggestions on how to get the signal to get calculated properly?

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  • J

    Maybe another hint may help someone help me figure this out. Within the subclass, using the standard EMA indicator works...

    class MyTrixSignalInherited(MyTrix):

    lines = ('signal',)
    params = (('sigperiod', 30),)

    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()        
        self.lines.signal = btind.EMA(self.lines.trix, period=self.p.sigperiod)

    It is only when using the recursive version that the nan values appear. By debugging, I am seeing that even within nextstart, the item "self.data" is full of nan values.

    Unfortunately, my true use case involves a similarly developed recursive indicator, so I really need to figure out why it seems to be receiving nan values from the lines output of the parent class.

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  • J

    Further testing shows that if I remove the "next" method from the recursive indicator (rendering it non-recursive), that the indicator correctly receives the data from the parent class. That makes me start to think that this is actually a bug.

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