Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch - Revision history

Greg: /* FAQs */

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FAQs

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FAQs

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FAQs

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FAQs

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Legacy

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Updates / FAQs

2020-03-19T06:01:58Z

About the ABIDES simulator and getting started

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What you should do

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Strategy, evaluation and scoring

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 * <span style="color:red"><b>Q:</b></span> I'm using a Mac.  When I try to plot the order book, I get a strange exception with a stack trace, including a mention of libtk and tkinter.
-* <span style="color:red"><b>Q:</b></span> Run the following commands from the terminal to change the default back end
+* <span style="color:red"><b>A:</b></span> Run the following commands from the terminal to change the default back end
   $ mkdir -p ~/.matplotlib
   $ echo "backend: TkAgg" > ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc

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 * <span style="color:red"><b>Q:</b></span> Run the following commands from the terminal to change the default back end
-$ mkdir -p ~/.matplotlib
+ $ mkdir -p ~/.matplotlib
-$ echo "backend: TkAgg" > ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc
+ $ echo "backend: TkAgg" > ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc

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	$ mkdir -p ~/.matplotlib		$ mkdir -p ~/.matplotlib
		+
	$ echo "backend: TkAgg" > ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc		$ echo "backend: TkAgg" > ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc

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 ==FAQs==
-Q: I'm using a Mac.  When I try to plot the order book, I get a strange exception with a stack trace, including a mention of libtk and tkinter.
+* <span style="color:red"><b>Q:</b></span> I'm using a Mac.  When I try to plot the order book, I get a strange exception with a stack trace, including a mention of libtk and tkinter.
-A: Run the following commands from the terminal to change the default back end
+* <span style="color:red"><b>Q:</b></span> Run the following commands from the terminal to change the default back end
 $ mkdir -p ~/.matplotlib
 $ echo "backend: TkAgg" > ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc

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 Q: I'm using a Mac.  When I try to plot the order book, I get a strange exception with a stack trace, including a mention of libtk and tkinter.
 A: Run the following commands from the terminal to change the default back end
 ```
 $ mkdir -p ~/.matplotlib
 $ echo "backend: TkAgg" > ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc
 ```

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	* A documentary film about the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOrgLj9lOwk		* A documentary film about the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOrgLj9lOwk

−	==~~Legacy~~==	+	==FAQs==
		+
		+	Q: I'm using a Mac. When I try to plot the order book, I get a strange exception with a stack trace, including a mention of libtk and tkinter.
		+	A: Run the following commands from the terminal to change the default back end
		+	```
		+	$ mkdir -p ~/.matplotlib
		+	$ echo "backend: TkAgg" > ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc
		+
		+	```

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 * '''2019-09-16''' Revision for utilities to visualize the order book and final cash holdings.
 * '''2019-09-20''' Revision to the Hhg_utils.zip file to include contributed_traders modifications.
 This assignment is subject to change up until 3 weeks prior to the due date. We do not anticipate further changes; any changes will be logged in this section.

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 Note that you should never issue a pull request to this repo.  It will expose your code to others and you will be perceived as uncool.  To get ABIDES configured, run the following commands:
-  git clone https://github.com/abides-sim/abides.git
+  git -c advice.detachedHead=false clone -b v1.0 https://github.com/abides-sim/abides
   cd abides
   wget https://quantsoftware.gatech.edu/images/9/99/Hhg_utils.zip

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 Now, build an agent that performs well through a trading day.
-At the end of the day, we will call your agent's <tt>getportfoliovalue()</tt> method to see how profitable it's trading has been. Remember that only the cash component counts.
+At the end of the day, we will call your agent's <tt>getHoldings()</tt> method to see how profitable it's trading has been. Remember that only the cash component counts.
 For convenience, we've provided you with a tool to evaluate your final cash holdings at the end of a run.  For example:

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 The Part 1 scoring will work as follows:
-* +15 points if <s>profitable</s> it outperforms more than 50% of the time.
+* +25 points if <s>profitable</s> it outperforms more than 50% of the time.
 * +5 points * (number of times <s>profitable</s> outperforms - 5).  Minimum 0 points, maximum 25 points for this part.