# # Copyright 2013 Quantopian, Inc. # # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. # You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. import numpy as np import pandas as pd import pandas_datareader.data as pd_reader def get_benchmark_returns(symbol, first_date, last_date): """ Get a Series of benchmark returns from Google associated with `symbol`. Default is `SPY`. Parameters ---------- symbol : str Benchmark symbol for which we're getting the returns. first_date : pd.Timestamp First date for which we want to get data. last_date : pd.Timestamp Last date for which we want to get data. The furthest date that Google goes back to is 1993-02-01. It has missing data for 2008-12-15, 2009-08-11, and 2012-02-02, so we add data for the dates for which Google is missing data. We're also limited to 4000 days worth of data per request. If we make a request for data that extends past 4000 trading days, we'll still only receive 4000 days of data. first_date is **not** included because we need the close from day N - 1 to compute the returns for day N. """ if symbol == '^GSPC': symbol = 'spy' data = pd_reader.DataReader( symbol, 'google', first_date, last_date ) data = data['Close'] data[pd.Timestamp('2008-12-15')] = np.nan data[pd.Timestamp('2009-08-11')] = np.nan data[pd.Timestamp('2012-02-02')] = np.nan data = data.fillna(method='ffill') return data.sort_index().tz_localize('UTC').pct_change(1).iloc[1:]