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Author SHA1 Message Date
Scott Sanderson f41c37a606 ENH: Add the ability to specify an exchange on an ExecutionStyle.
Adds the exchange property the interface for ExecutionStyle and adds an
exchange parameter to the interface of all the existing ExceutionStyles.
Subclasses wishing to support the ability to specify an exchange should set the
_exchange attribute in __init__.
2014-04-29 17:35:12 -04:00
Scott Sanderson 5373b6797c ENH: Treat stop and limit prices differently when rounding.
Stop and limit prices both trigger when a price crosses some threshold, but
they trigger in "opposite directions".  For example, on a buy, a limit price is
triggered when a price falls below a specified value, whereas a stop price
triggers when the price exceeds a specified value.

Our current stop/limit price rounding logic is asymmetric, preferring to "round
to improve" the specified price.  This change makes it so that we interpret
"improvement" in opposite directions for stop vs limit prices.
2014-04-25 12:02:23 -04:00
Scott Sanderson 119a1a4cda ENH: Update ordering API to support new ExecutionStyle class in favor of
existing `limit_price` and `stop_price` parameters.  The goal of this change is
to refactor the existing ordering API to provide a cleaner interface for
defining more complex order types.

Adds a new module, zipline.finance.execution, which defines the ExecutionStyle
abstract base class, along with concrete MarketOrder, LimitOrder, StopOrder,
and StopLimitOrder subclasses.

Adds a new `style` keyword argument to the function signature of the `order`
API method, which accepts an instance of ExecutionStyle.

The existing limit_price and stop_price parameters are still supported at this
time, but are converted into the new ExecutionStyle objects before being passed
to Blotter.order.
2014-04-22 23:22:21 -04:00