Rather than drop files temporarily into the master security lists
directory during unit tests, create temporary directories for the
tests. This avoids issues when the tests are being run at the same
time as other code that uses the real security lists data.
For beta calculation:
Remove `.dropna` , since it was creating a new
Series and Index which inflated memory usage as algorithm run time
progressed.
For downside risk calculations:
Instead of using pd.Series calculations, pass the underlying
numpy array which have already been sliced to the exact dt, so that the
call to `round` does not create a new Series.
Because we use ordered_pip.sh to install requirements files, we want
dependencies in requirements_dev.txt to be listed _before_ the things
that depend on them, rather than after. Otherwise, with
ordered_pip.sh, stuff will get installed implicitly, and perhaps the
wrong version.
Remove use of defaultdict for orders_by_modified, which was causing an
empty list to be added every time to_dict was called with a specified
dt.
Nnoticed in the minute emission case when hunting another memory leak,
every simulation minute a new Timestamp and list was created and never
let go.
Only fill limit order if impacted fill price is better than the limit price.
If a limit order is partially filled, only fill the remaining shares if the
impacted fill price is better than the limit price.
If a SID hasn't started trading yet, pandas' convention is to use nans.
Before this change, zipline would raise an exception if there were nans in the
input data.
We now skip events where the prices contains a nan and has not been traded
before (in which case forward fill).
Fixes#446.
In Python 3 builds, the miniconda version of nose was being used, which
was not finding the pip installed plugins.
Force the install of nose into the non-miniconda part of the
environment where the plugns are installed.
Now that the pandas and numpy upgrade is complete, no longer need to
test for forwards and backwards compatibility.
Also, now that Cython is part of the build, the existence of Cython can
be assumed for building cyordereddict.
Remove pieces that are no longer used now that the simple transforms are
wrappers around history via the SIDData object.
Move window length related pieces into batch_transform, since the rest
of the utils module is no longer used.
This commit refactors the Security cython class to Asset, and refactors some fields of the class accordingly. This change is so the terminology is consistent and correct when Asset is extended to asset types that are not securities, such as futures.
Jonathan Kamens