demo/bbands.R

In quantstrat: Quantitative Strategy Model Framework

require(quantstrat)
suppressWarnings(rm("order_book.bbands",pos=.strategy))
suppressWarnings(rm("account.bbands","portfolio.bbands",pos=.blotter))
suppressWarnings(rm("account.st","portfolio.st","stock.str","stratBBands","startDate","initEq",'start_t','end_t'))

# some things to set up here
stock.str='IBM' # what are we trying it on

# we'll pass these 
SD = 2 # how many standard deviations, traditionally 2
N = 20 # how many periods for the moving average, traditionally 20


currency('USD')
stock(stock.str,currency='USD',multiplier=1)

startDate='2006-12-31'
initEq=1000000

portfolio.st='bbands'
account.st='bbands'

initPortf(portfolio.st, symbols=stock.str)
initAcct(account.st,portfolios='bbands')
initOrders(portfolio=portfolio.st)
addPosLimit(portfolio.st, stock.str, startDate, 200, 2 ) #set max pos

# set up parameters
maType='SMA'
n = 20
sdp = 2

strat.st<-portfolio.st
# define the strategy
strategy(strat.st, store=TRUE)

#one indicator
add.indicator(strategy = strat.st, 
              name = "BBands", 
              arguments = list(HLC = quote(HLC(mktdata)), 
                               n=n, 
                               maType=maType, 
                               sd=sdp 
                               ), 
              label='BBands')


#add signals:
add.signal(strategy = strat.st,
           name="sigCrossover",
           arguments = list(columns=c("Close","up"),
                            relationship="gt"),
           label="Cl.gt.UpperBand")

add.signal(strategy = strat.st,
           name="sigCrossover",
           arguments = list(columns=c("Close","dn"),
                            relationship="lt"),
           label="Cl.lt.LowerBand")

add.signal(strategy = strat.st,name="sigCrossover",
           arguments = list(columns=c("High","Low","mavg"),
                            relationship="op"),
           label="Cross.Mid")

# lets add some rules
add.rule(strategy = strat.st,name='ruleSignal',
         arguments = list(sigcol="Cl.gt.UpperBand",
                          sigval=TRUE,
                          orderqty=-100, 
                          ordertype='market',
                          orderside=NULL,
                          threshold=NULL,
                          osFUN=osMaxPos),
         type='enter')

add.rule(strategy = strat.st,name='ruleSignal',
         arguments = list(sigcol="Cl.lt.LowerBand",
                          sigval=TRUE,
                          orderqty= 100, 
                          ordertype='market',
                          orderside=NULL,
                          threshold=NULL,
                          osFUN=osMaxPos),
         type='enter')

add.rule(strategy = strat.st,name='ruleSignal',
         arguments = list(sigcol="Cross.Mid",
                          sigval=TRUE,
                          orderqty= 'all',
                          ordertype='market',
                          orderside=NULL,
                          threshold=NULL,
                          osFUN=osMaxPos),
         label='exitMid',
         type='exit')


#alternately, to exit at the opposite band, the rules would be...
#add.rule(strategy = strat.st,name='ruleSignal', arguments = list(data=quote(mktdata),sigcol="Lo.gt.UpperBand",sigval=TRUE, orderqty= 'all', ordertype='market', orderside=NULL, threshold=NULL),type='exit')
#add.rule(strategy = strat.st,name='ruleSignal', arguments = list(data=quote(mktdata),sigcol="Hi.lt.LowerBand",sigval=TRUE, orderqty= 'all', ordertype='market', orderside=NULL, threshold=NULL),type='exit')

#TODO add thresholds and stop-entry and stop-exit handling to test

getSymbols(stock.str,from=startDate,index.class=c('POSIXt','POSIXct'))
start_t<-Sys.time()
out<-try(applyStrategy(strategy='bbands' , portfolios='bbands',parameters=list(sd=SD,n=N)) )

# look at the order book
#getOrderBook('bbands')
end_t<-Sys.time()
print("strat execution time:")
print(end_t-start_t)

start_t<-Sys.time()
updatePortf(Portfolio='bbands',Dates=paste('::',as.Date(Sys.time()),sep=''))
end_t<-Sys.time()
print("updatePortf execution time:")
print(end_t-start_t)

chart.Posn(Portfolio='bbands',Symbol=stock.str)
plot(add_BBands(on=1,sd=SD,n=N))

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# R (http://r-project.org/) Quantitative Strategy Model Framework
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# Copyright (c) 2009-2012
# Peter Carl, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Brian G. Peterson, Jeffrey Ryan, and Joshua Ulrich 
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# $Id: bbands.R 1724 2015-12-14 12:54:08Z bodanker $
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