Quantstrat for backtesting on tickdata (and creating a spread from tick)
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 4:00 PM, bearwithme <daneedwards1 at hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi, could someone please point me in the right direction. It can be high level and i can do the research (which have already done but i seem to be going around in circles right now haha) I have tick data for two instruments bid/vol & ask/vol. Example data : Bid for BRN0615 (Brent june 2015) 20150421 175951;61.87;4 20150421 175955;61.87;3 20150421 175955;61.87;1 1) I would like create a spread between 2 instruments using this tick data. (can fn_spreadbuilder do this?) spread ask = BRN0615(ask) - (BRNS120615(bid) *3) spread bid = BRN0615(bid) - (BRNS120615(ask) *3)
I have some code that builds a similar spread like this:
syms <- c("BRN0615","BRNS120615")
currency('USD')
spread("BRNS","USD",syms,c(1,-3))
bid <- buildSpread("BRNS",onelot=FALSE,prefer="Bid",auto.assign=FALSE)
ask <- buildSpread("BRNS",onelot=FALSE,prefer="Ask",auto.assign=FALSE)
BRNS <- merge(bid, ask)
This code is a couple years old and I don't remember the precise
reason for constructing the spread that way... I think it had
something to do with not assuming you would be able to get the passive
price on both legs of the spread. Hopefully someone else can
elaborate.
2) unfortunately in the tick data some of the date rows have duplicate time stamps (i hope to get better data) is there a way of dealing with this (without going to 1 second data).
xts objects don't need a unique index. Did you actually encounter a problem, or are you just guessing that there will be one?
3) once i have the spread, it will be in bid/ask format still, I know how to access the columns in quanstrat using $columnname but what is the best way to get it a certain format?
Use column names, Bid.Price and Ask.Price, respectively. Then set prefer = "Bid" or prefer = "Ask" in your quantstrat calls that care about the side of the market (e.g. ruleSignal).
** my strategy will use the bid and ask of the resulting spread, when the ask goes below a certain level i will long, when the bid goes above a certain level i will go short (mean reversion). thanks!! -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Quantstrat-for-backtesting-on-tickdata-and-creating-a-spread-from-tick-tp4708020.html Sent from the Rmetrics mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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