ENH: Adds quantopian-quandl bundle as new default.

This data bundle will use the quantopian mirror of the quandl WIKI data
instead of downloading from quandl directly. This dramatically improves
the speed because we do not pay the rate limiting for quandl and we can
send the data in the format zipline expects.
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Joe Jevnik
2016-05-03 23:35:49 -04:00
parent 8756bf2c91
commit 89542e33bd
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@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ on OSX):
--capital-base FLOAT The starting capital for the simulation.
[default: 10000000.0]
-b, --bundle BUNDLE-NAME The data bundle to use for the simulation.
[default: quandl]
[default: quantopian-quandl]
--bundle-timestamp TIMESTAMP The date to lookup data on or before.
[default: <current-time>]
-s, --start DATE The start date of the simulation.
@@ -140,8 +140,8 @@ on OSX):
As you can see there are a couple of flags that specify where to find your
algorithm (``-f``) as well as parameters specifying which data to use,
defaulting to the :ref:`quandl-data-bundle`. There are also arguments for the
date range to run the algorithm over (``--start`` and ``--end``). Finally,
defaulting to the :ref:`quantopian-quandl-mirror`. There are also arguments for
the date range to run the algorithm over (``--start`` and ``--end``). Finally,
you'll want to save the performance metrics of your algorithm so that you can
analyze how it performed. This is done via the ``--output`` flag and will cause
it to write the performance ``DataFrame`` in the pickle Python file format.