📅 2024-01-16 — Session: Debugged and Enhanced OLSResiduals Indicator in Backtrader

🕒 14:55–15:40
🏷️ Labels: Backtrader, Olsresiduals, Python, Debugging, Trading Strategy
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to integrate and debug the OLSResiduals indicator within a multi-stock trading strategy using Backtrader.

Key Activities

  • Developed a guide for integrating OLS residuals into a trading strategy, focusing on custom indicator creation and strategy logic modification.
  • Addressed a TypeError in the OLSResiduals initialization by modifying the class definition and removing unnecessary arguments.
  • Resolved a ValueError related to zero-size arrays by ensuring sufficient data points for OLS fitting and implementing error handling.
  • Implemented debugging techniques to diagnose issues with empty price arrays and refined data fetching methods within the OLSResiduals class.

Achievements

  • Successfully integrated the OLSResiduals indicator into Backtrader with enhanced error handling and debugging capabilities.
  • Improved data fetching and initialization processes to prevent common errors related to empty arrays.

Pending Tasks

  • Further testing is required to validate the robustness of the new implementation under various market conditions.
  • Additional documentation and comments should be added to the code for clarity and future reference.