This format is intended for storing data for all sids of an asset type,
e.g. equities or futures for a session. bcolz is not used to avoid the overhead
of creating the directories and files for each asset (which numbers around ~8000
for active equities) can be removed since the update is meant to be read at
once, instead of supporting the random access pattern needed by the simulation.
This patch only adds the reader/writer pair, with the management of finding the
paths to delta files and the application of the updates to the bcolz write left
to internal loader code.
Also, the update reader interface is intentionally constrained to the data for
an entire session to allow for an implementation that allows for mid-session updates.
* ENH: Adds support for supplementary asset mappings
- Adds a supplementary_mappings table to the assets.db, to hold point-
in-time mappings of sids to arbitrary categories of values, e.g.
alternative identifiers. This bumps ASSET_DB_VERSION.
- Adds supplementary_map and supplementary_map_by_sid to AssetFinder,
caches of the underlying table that are fully populated on first
access, which map the supplementary values to sids and vice versa,
respectively.
- Adds lookup_by_supplementary_mapping method, which fronts
supplementary_map to query for the asset last known to have held a
value at a given dt.
- Add get_supplementary_field method, which fronts
supplementary_map_by_sid to query for the last known value held by an
asset at a given dt.
For futures that behave like GC, use the latest roll as the back contract when
walking backwards over the window, so that when the front contract is skipped
because it never has more volume between its auto close date and the previous
auto close date, the back contract which did have volume is still used when
making comparisons to construct the chain.
To support contracts such as `PL` which should roll from F->J->N->V, add the
ability to pass a predicate function to the ordered contract chain contstrution
which returns `True` if the contract is allowed in the chain.
Convert the end minute to the its session label before calling `_active_contract`,
otherwise the volume roll finder's attempt to use the session bar reader fails
due to a non-session label Timestamp.
Fix multiple errors when attempting to generate rolls for futures which do not
roll month to month, e.g. the Eurodollar.
These errors were caused by logic that always incremented from contract to
contract by delivery month, with errors when the next contract was not part of
the quarterly roll chain and thus had not yet begun trading even though the
previous contract had autoclosed. Instead, filter out these contracts and only
allow contracts that have begun trading before the previous contract's autoclose.
This is in lieu of a more explicit specification of quarterly rolls.
Instead of requiring the roll finder to juggle the indices into the ordered
contracts, use a doubly linked list where the nodes element is the contract
with members pointing to the previous and next contracts in the chain.
Besides improving legibility in the roll finder code, this change is on the path
to adding a predicate to exclude contracts from the chain, e.g. contracts in ED
which are not in the roll schedule.
Change test results for primary chain, since new implementaton does not stop at
contract in which has not yet started when constructing the chain.
- Use `expect_bounded` to check inputs.
- Add tests for expected failures from `MACDSignal`.
- Use `float64` instead of `float` in a few places. This prevents
diverging behavior on 32-bit systems.
- Docstring edits.
- Use a RandomState with a seed so that we have repeatible results.
- Use `randint` instead of `random_integers.` `random_integers` is
deprecated.
- Use `parameter_space` to test multiple period lengths.
Fix common error condition which was triggered whenever the session at the end
of the prefetched history window was a session where the back contract was
active. When the back contract was the active contract, the next contract for
consideration was the front contract at the end of the window, which
definitionally always has an autoclose after the end of the window.
Instead, just start seeking backwards from the end of the window.
Also prevent lookahead bias in volume rolls, which was caused by the using the
volume for a session to determine whether that session had rolled. Information
that would not have been available at the beginning of the session.
This change makes the volume rolls overly conservative, and may be improved by
looking at vectors of the preceding volume and making the roll off of momentum.
This modificaiton to the estimates loader allows the caller to pass
in an equity pricing loader which can then be used to get split data
for sids. That split data is then used to do point-in-time adjustments
of estimates data.
TST: add test for multiple estimates columns
TST: add test for multiple datasets requesting different columns
TST: add blaze versions for all next/previous tests
When the following conditions occur,
- a `nan` occurred after a half day (e.g. on the Monday after
Thanksgiving, where the Friday would be a half day.)
-data was written to the span between the early close and where the market close
would have been if it were not an early close session
- a `nan` also occured on the last minute of the early market session.
the exisitng implementation would incorrectly return a `nan` when requesting a
forward filled price.
The steps that caused this error were.
1. Request for `'price'` on the market open of the day after the early close.
2. `nan` is found for that minute
3. `get_last_traded_dt` is called, and finds a volume that occurs after the
early close. e.g. `18:47` when the market close was `18:00`.
4. The minute position for `18:47` is used, when calling
`find_positon_of_minute`, since that value is after the `market_close` the
minute is set to the position of `18:00`` due to the delta logic in
5. Since there is also no data in at `18:00`, a `nan` is returned, even though
there were valid minutes earlier in the session. e.g. a non-zero volume at
`16:47` should have been used, but was not.
Fix by checking the current minute against the minute close when searching for
the last traded minute. If the minute is greater than the market close for the
corresponding day, continue the search until the minute position is within the
trading session.
This could also be fixed by enforcing that only zeros can be written between an
early close and the minute where the close would have been, but this fix allows
the reader to work with existing data.
The end date of the last contract with a sufficient start date was being
used for the continuous future overall end date; however the end date of
that contract (which is the last day for which there is data for the
contract) is not necessarily the greatest end date out of all contracts.
It is possible for the furthest out contract to have some, but very
few, trades before it is more actively traded. Which would give it a
start date within in the range of the simulation, but an end date is
earlier than the other contracts which are active during the simulation.
This bug would result in `nan`s when getting the current price because
of the `end_date` check in `get_spot_value`. When the current simulation
time was greater than the `end_date` of the last contract the condition
which guards against attempting to get data for an instrument past its
end date would return a `nan`, even when the current underlying contract
did have data for that date.
Use max end date of all contracts instead of the last one, to ensure
that the continuous future last date is always great enough to allow
access to all contracts with in the chain.
Also, use min start date to accurately mirror the end date behavior.
Use `roll_style` not `roll`.
Also, add test case to cover using the session bar reader `get_value`,
by adding a test which uses `close`, since only `contract` was being
exercised, which does not exercise the session daily bar reader.
In preparation for using `DataPortal` in notebooks, remove restriction on
the `HistoryLoader` to dates that are monotonically increasing. Notebook
usage of the `DataPortal` is more useful when the end of the history
window can be arbitrary dates without having to restart the notebook kernel.
Due to the implementation of the prefetch and caching logic, the end
date of history calls could previously only increase. e.g. `2016-11-01`,
`2016-11-02`, `2016-11-03`. This pattern was sufficient for backtesting
and live simulations, since the current time of the algorithm only ever increases.
With this change, which resets the underlying sliding window when the
last fetched idx is greater than the
Now calls to history in the same process with end dates such
`2016-11-01`, `2016-10-31`, `2015-11-02` should work.
To support using a `DataPortal` and `HistoryLoader` in a notebook, allow
the prefetch length to be configurable, so that it can be set to 0.
Unlike backtesting where the prefetch is useful for repeated history
windows viewed from datetimes which are monotonically increasing by a
small amount, the notebook usage of history windows needs only to
retrieve the exact data needed for the window specified.
This patch also fixes some boundary conditions related to rolls and
adjustments which were uncovered by querying for the adjustments with an
end date near the end of the window.
Eddie Hebert