import datetime from decimal import Decimal, ROUND_HALF_DOWN import os import os.path import time import numpy as np import pandas as pd from qsforex.event.event import TickEvent class PriceHandler(object): """ PriceHandler is an abstract base class providing an interface for all subsequent (inherited) data handlers (both live and historic). The goal of a (derived) PriceHandler object is to output a set of bid/ask/timestamp "ticks" for each currency pair and place them into an event queue. This will replicate how a live strategy would function as current tick data would be streamed via a brokerage. Thus a historic and live system will be treated identically by the rest of the QSForex backtesting suite. """ def _set_up_prices_dict(self): """ Due to the way that the Position object handles P&L calculation, it is necessary to include values for not only base/quote currencies but also their reciprocals. This means that this class will contain keys for, e.g. "GBPUSD" and "USDGBP". At this stage they are calculated in an ad-hoc manner, but a future TODO is to modify the following code to be more robust and straightforward to follow. """ prices_dict = dict( (k, v) for k,v in [ (p, {"bid": None, "ask": None, "time": None}) for p in self.pairs ] ) inv_prices_dict = dict( (k, v) for k,v in [ ( "%s%s" % (p[3:], p[:3]), {"bid": None, "ask": None, "time": None} ) for p in self.pairs ] ) prices_dict.update(inv_prices_dict) return prices_dict def invert_prices(self, pair, bid, ask): """ Simply inverts the prices for a particular currency pair. This will turn the bid/ask of "GBPUSD" into bid/ask for "USDGBP" and place them in the prices dictionary. """ inv_pair = "%s%s" % (pair[3:], pair[:3]) inv_bid = (Decimal("1.0")/bid).quantize( Decimal("0.00001", ROUND_HALF_DOWN) ) inv_ask = (Decimal("1.0")/ask).quantize( Decimal("0.00001", ROUND_HALF_DOWN) ) return inv_pair, inv_bid, inv_ask class HistoricCSVPriceHandler(PriceHandler): """ HistoricCSVPriceHandler is designed to read CSV files of tick data for each requested currency pair and stream those to the provided events queue. """ def __init__(self, pairs, events_queue, csv_dir): """ Initialises the historic data handler by requesting the location of the CSV files and a list of symbols. It will be assumed that all files are of the form 'pair.csv', where "pair" is the currency pair. For GBP/USD the filename is GBPUSD.csv. Parameters: pairs - The list of currency pairs to obtain. events_queue - The events queue to send the ticks to. csv_dir - Absolute directory path to the CSV files. """ self.pairs = pairs self.events_queue = events_queue self.csv_dir = csv_dir self.prices = self._set_up_prices_dict() self.pair_frames = {} self._open_convert_csv_files() def _open_convert_csv_files(self): """ Opens the CSV files from the data directory, converting them into pandas DataFrames within a pairs dictionary. The function then concatenates all of the separate pairs for a single day into a single data frame that is time ordered, allowing tick data events to be added to the queue in a chronological fashion. """ for p in self.pairs: pair_path = os.path.join(self.csv_dir, '%s.csv' % p) self.pair_frames[p] = pd.io.parsers.read_csv( pair_path, header=True, index_col=0, parse_dates=True, names=("Time", "Ask", "Bid", "AskVolume", "BidVolume") ) self.pair_frames[p]["Pair"] = p self.all_pairs = pd.concat(self.pair_frames.values()).sort().iterrows() def stream_next_tick(self): """ The Backtester has now moved over to a single-threaded model in order to fully reproduce results on each run. This means that the stream_to_queue method is unable to be used and a replacement, called stream_next_tick, is used instead. This method is called by the backtesting function outside of this class and places a single tick onto the queue, as well as updating the current bid/ask and inverse bid/ask. """ try: index, row = self.all_pairs.next() except StopIteration: return else: pair = row["Pair"] bid = Decimal(str(row["Bid"])).quantize( Decimal("0.00001", ROUND_HALF_DOWN) ) ask = Decimal(str(row["Ask"])).quantize( Decimal("0.00001", ROUND_HALF_DOWN) ) # Create decimalised prices for traded pair self.prices[pair]["bid"] = bid self.prices[pair]["ask"] = ask self.prices[pair]["time"] = index # Create decimalised prices for inverted pair inv_pair, inv_bid, inv_ask = self.invert_prices(pair, bid, ask) self.prices[inv_pair]["bid"] = inv_bid self.prices[inv_pair]["ask"] = inv_ask self.prices[inv_pair]["time"] = index # Create the tick event for the queue tev = TickEvent(pair, index, bid, ask) self.events_queue.put(tev)