Fix floats for volume in data.history

catalyst/data/_equities.pyx

@@ -215,13 +215,11 @@ cpdef _read_bcolz_data(ctable_t table,
                 else:
                     continue
 
-        if column_name in ['open', 'high', 'low', 'close']:
+        if column_name in ['open', 'high', 'low', 'close', 'volume']:
             where_nan = (outbuf == 0)
             outbuf_as_float = outbuf.astype(float64) * .000000001
             outbuf_as_float[where_nan] = NAN
             results.append(outbuf_as_float)
-        elif column_name != 'volume':
-            results.append(outbuf.astype(uint32))
         else:
             results.append(outbuf)
     return results

catalyst/data/dispatch_bar_reader.py

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ from numpy import (
     full,
     nan,
     int64,
+    float64,
     zeros
 )
 from six import iteritems, with_metaclass
@@ -70,7 +71,9 @@ class AssetDispatchBarReader(with_metaclass(ABCMeta)):
         return self._dt_window_size(start_dt, end_dt), num_sids
 
     def _make_raw_array_out(self, field, shape):
-        if field != 'volume' and field != 'sid':
+        if field == 'volume':
+            out = zeros(shape, dtype=float64)
+        elif field != 'sid':
             out = full(shape, nan)
         else:
             out = zeros(shape, dtype=int64)

catalyst/data/minute_bars.py

@@ -1248,7 +1248,7 @@ class BcolzMinuteBarReader(MinuteBarReader):
             if field != 'volume':
                 out = np.full(shape, np.nan)
             else:
-                out = np.zeros(shape, dtype=np.uint64)
+                out = np.zeros(shape, dtype=np.float64)
 
             for i, sid in enumerate(sids):
                 carray = self._open_minute_file(field, sid)

catalyst/data/us_equity_pricing.py

@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ class BcolzDailyBarWriter(object):
         dates = raw_data.index.values.astype('datetime64[s]')
         check_uint32_safe(dates.max().view(np.int64), 'day')
         processed['day'] = dates.astype('uint32')
-        processed['volume'] = raw_data.volume.astype('uint64')
+        processed['volume'] = (raw_data.volume * PRICE_ADJUSTMENT_FACTOR).astype('uint64')
         return ctable.fromdataframe(processed)
 
 
@@ -494,9 +494,8 @@ class BcolzDailyBarReader(SessionBarReader):
 
     The data in these columns is interpreted as follows:
 
-    - Price columns ('open', 'high', 'low', 'close') are interpreted as 1000 *
+    - Price columns ('open', 'high', 'low', 'close') and Volume are interpreted 
-      as-traded dollar value.
+      as 10^9 * as-traded dollar value.
-    - Volume is interpreted as as-traded volume.
     - Day is interpreted as seconds since midnight UTC, Jan 1, 1970.
     - Id is the asset id of the row.
 
@@ -762,13 +761,10 @@ class BcolzDailyBarReader(SessionBarReader):
         """
         ix = self.sid_day_index(sid, dt)
         price = self._spot_col(field)[ix]
-        if field != 'volume':
+        if field != 'volume' and price == 0:
-            if price == 0:
+            return nan
-                return nan
-            else:
-                return price / PRICE_ADJUSTMENT_FACTOR
         else:
-            return price
+            return price / PRICE_ADJUSTMENT_FACTOR
 
 
 class PanelBarReader(SessionBarReader):

etc/requirements.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Incompatible with earlier PIP versions
 pip>=7.1.0
 # bcolz fails to install if this is not in the build_requires.
-setuptools>18.0
+setuptools>36.0
 
 # Logging
 Logbook==0.12.5