Instead of having separate ExchangeCalendar and TradingSchedule objects, we
now just have TradingCalendar. The TradingCalendar keeps track of each
session (defined as a contiguous set of minutes between an open and a close).
It's also responsible for handling the grouping logic of any given minute
to its containing session, or the next/previous session if it's not a market
minute for the given calendar.
In preparation of adding futures, add equity to the names of both the
classes and methods for writing bcolz data. Futures data will use a
different minutes per day with a separate reader. This change will allow
both equity and futures fixtures to be side by side.
Also, break out the method which generates the dataframes and trading
days member into fixtures (`EquityMinuteBarData` and
`EquityDailyBarData`) on which the `*BarReader` fixture depends. This
fixture is separated out to enable reader/writers in different formats
to use the same data setup. (There is internal code which needs to write
minute and daily bar data in a database format.)
Use arrays in more places, and use permutations of indexers instead of
permutations of the values.
MAINT: add testing of boundary conditions
MAINT: use check_arrays to work with both pandas versions
- Refactored EventsLoader and BlazeEventsLoader to not require a
subclass per dataset. Instead, you now pass a map from columns to
event fields directly to the EventsLoader constructor.
- Removed a large number of Quantopian-specific datasets and associated
tests.
- Rewrote the core logic of EventsLoader and BlazeEventsLoader to share
index calculations across multiple requested columns.
- Fixed a bug where event fields were incorrectly forward-filled when
null values were present in an event.
ENH: fast stochastic oscillator added.
A fast stochastic oscillator has been added to the technical
factors. This is the simplest of the stochastic oscillators,
and can be used to build the others.
Tests have been added that compare against the values expected
from that of ta-lib STOCHF.
FastStochasticOscillator is marked as window_safe=True to allow taking
moving averages for smoothing.
Scott Sanderson