Track the actions of the trade strategy

[gnommer]

if we say are defining the next in the strategy class like buy and sell actions how can we track this in the _trade_data object so we can track easily when the order was placed and when the broker executed the buy sell and hold to present in the plots ?

• Backtesting version: 0.1.2

[gnommer]

@kernc any suggestions on the above issue ?

[kernc]

results._trade_data, as mentioned in #4, is only available after the simulation run. For the time being, if you need to query state during the simulation, you should look into the properties of Position (Strategy.position) and track state changes manually yourself.

[Benouare]

Just for help :

trades = _trade_data
final = pd.DataFrame()
final = final.append(trades[trades[["Entry Price"]].notnull().all(1)])
final = final.append(trades[trades[["Exit Price"]].notnull().all(1)])
final = final.sort_index()

It looks like this just shows the buy/close position dates.