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admin

Guideline to upload custom data via API

Following the article Guideline to backtest with custom datasets , we learnt how to upload custom data to the system for backtest ...

 
大聖

Improvement for many stocks input in the instrument list

Hey, I have a trading strategy which trade on a basket of many stocks and rebalance weekly. The current system needs to manually choose the stocks one by one. It is too time consuming and not ...

 
Simple

Question about order placement

I am able to place order and got this error " Invalid order is rejected due to insufficient capital " Here is my code. Please help! ...

 
admin

4 Common Data Formats You Should Know

A data format is the arrangement of data fields. It defines how data is encoded for storage in a computer file, and the way to display and process. A good data researcher should at least know: ...

 
⚡比卡超⚡

How to query current account balance in backtest?

Hey, I am new to the platform. As title, how can I get current account balance in backtest? ...

 
Freeze

API to query trade PL

My strategy need the unrealized PL of my trades to decide take profit or stop loss. I checked the tech doc a few times but still can't find related implementation details. An ...

 
shah

REST API frequency

For the competition we should be having access to minute data right? But when i am trying to access minute data using REST API it gives the following error " ...

 
William Cheung

How to change leverage and currency for live test?

Hello, for the live test account, I would like to change the base currency to HKD , instead of USD also the leverage to 10 , instead of 5 ...

 
Donald

Order closed with unexpected price

Hi there, I have a script running in the live-test environment. I found that one of my order for 7500HK was closed at $4.77 on 7-Jul. However, I checked other data sources, the lowest price on that day doesn't hit that low. ...

 
admin

Guideline to use ALGOGENE DLL in MetaTrader

We are pleased to announce that ALGOGENE is now available as a plugin for MetaTrader (MT4 and MT5)! ...

 
Henry Tsai

How to implement stoploss?

Hello team, I am trying to implement a stop loss in my strategy. I’m not quite sure how to do it. Can someone provide more guidance? ...

 
tony lam

3 Tips to make your code more pythonic

This article will introduce you to the top 3 ways you might not be fully taking advantage of to write better Python code, including: List Comprehension Dictionary Access ...

 
Nezuko

Too annoying for IBKR to re-auth weekly...

Hi, does anyone use IBKR TWS for trading? I've been getting lots of "None" type returns from IBKR's API. Is IBKR's API still doing that thing where you have to install their clien ...

 
隻揪隻

How to query historical data for my custom instrument?

Hey, I followed this post to upload my data ( https://algogene.com/community/post/26 ). How can I query my custom instrument ...

 
Zero

Backtest setting question for competition

Hey there, I am a participant of the Algo Trading Challenge 2023/24 (Global) . Just want to clarify whether t ...

 
admin

Guideline for Strategy Parameter Optimizer

Overview It is common that a trading algorithm involves a number of user defined trading parameters. To optimize the algorithm's trading performance, developers usually need to tweet the parameters, re-run ...

 
Kwan Chi Yeung

Example in Tutorials (Moving Average)

There is only one instrument used In the moving average programming example. May I know if there is any method that can perform the same action but subscribes to more than one instrument? For example, ...

 
Terminator

How to set transaction cost as a percentage?

Hey there, any one know how to set transaction cost as a percentage in backtest? ...

 
丁先生

Market data not align with Yahoo Finance

Hello community, I have a question regarding the dataset on the platform. I use the getHistoricalBar ...

 
Minseok Choi

Question about market data

Hello, I am now studying to be aware of Algogene's backtesting engine. I run this code and the result shows this result. CODE class AlgoEvent: ...

 
Hojin Yun

Usage of Instruments Other than Crypto for Algo-Trading Crypto Challenge Competition

Hello, I am currently trying to implement our teams' strategy on the backtesting platform. However, I tried to use other instruments such as gold price, but it seems I can only select Crypto data. I h ...

 
降龍

How can I have multiple backtests at the same time?

Every time when I run a backtest on the platform, I need to wait for it to complete or cancel it first before I can run another backtest. Is there any way I can run multiple backtests at the ...

 
Sharwan Patel

Request for parameter optimization function

Hi algogene team, I have been using the platform for developing my trading algorithm for almost a year. I am really appreciate how powerful APIs and comprehensive datasets the platform has. ...

 
Jeremy

How to check whether a news appears during trading session?

Hi all, from the technical document, i know that "session=0" refers to trading session for placing orders. Orders will be rejected for other non-trading sessions. In fact, my strategy analyz ...

 
CHEN Chi Wei

Data Missing

I was testing my strategy for the algo challenge, but I saw for one moment the WTIUSD has data missing in 2022-01-17 while it should not. Is this a bug from market data feed? ...