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    • news-quantiacs
      news-quantiacs last edited by

      Dear all,

      as we mentioned last week, we have been restructuring our data offer.

      The Futures BTC contract has been replaced by the spot BTC one, active 7 days per week.

      For the other Futures we are now providing a set of 71 assets which can be inspected by using:

      import qnt.data as qndata
      future_list = qndata.futures.load_list()
      future_list
      

      Unfortunately we have been notified that a new CME Group Data Licensing Policy is in place. This policy affects distribution of Historical Information for Futures contracts and is available at this link.

      Distribution of CME historical data is at the moment not possible for Quantiacs for 2 reasons:

      • the new license implies yearly fees of 30,000 USD for each exchange of the CME group (COMEX, NYMEX, CBOT, CME). This means that Quantiacs should sustain additional recurrent costs of 120,000 USD on top of other data costs we already have.

      • the requested reporting requirements are not compatible with our project, as each month Quantiacs should report the names and addresses of all individual users accessing the data Quantiacs is providing.

      As Quantiacs focuses on providing quants with free historical data (no cost for the quants at all) and respecting the privacy of the users, we decided to replace the CME Futures contracts with Futures contracts from other international exchanges.

      In some cases we did not find suitable alternatives and we have performed other replacements.

      • Futures FX data have been replaced by FX data, with a matching procedure with Futures timestamps. In other words, open/close values are taken at the open/close of the Futures exchange.

      • We have replaced some Futures with analogue ETFs:

      F_BO: WisdomTree Soybean Oil
      F_S: Wisdom Tree Soybeans
      F_CL: US Oil Fund
      F_PA: Aberdeen Palladium
      F_PL: Aberdeen Platinum
      F_TU: iShares 1-3 Years Treasury Bond
      F_FV: iShares 3-7 Years Treasury Bond
      F_TY: iShares 7-10 Years Treasury Bond
      F_US: iShares US Treasury Bond
      F_MD: iShares Core S&P MidCap
      F_NQ: Invesco QQQ (Nasdaq 100)
      F_YM: SPDR DJIA
      F_NY: iShares MSCI Japan
      F_ES: SPDR S&P500
      
      • For some illiquid Futures we did not fund suitable replacements:
      F_FC: Feeder Cattle
      F_LB: Lumber
      F_LC: Live Cattle
      F_LN: Lean Hogs
      F_NR: Rough Rice
      F_O: Oats
      F_SM: Soybean Meal
      F_ZQ: 30day Fed Funds
      

      As most of them are agricultural, we introduced a new ETF symbol:

      F_AG: Invesco DB Agriculture Fund
      

      If you would like to see some new asset, please let us know!

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        captain.nidoran @news-quantiacs last edited by

        @news-quantiacs so is this going to be the final full list of futures availables for Q15?
        Or do you have any other change in mind which could affect to the submissions in the next days?
        Thanks in advance 🙂
        Luis.

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          support @captain.nidoran last edited by support

          @captain-nidoran We would like to add more assets in the next days, without removing any of the current assets.

          Please note that all the past submissions you and other quants made before the data update are still running on the previous dataset, and they are eligible for the Q15 as they were submitted.

          So adding assets is never affecting existing submissions, as each submission is bound to the dataset used for developing and submitting.

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            antinomy last edited by

            @support I'm having trouble getting the new data in my local environment. My qnt version is 0.0.255 and I use the following request

            import qnt.data as qndata
            
            futures_list = qndata.futures.load_list()
            futures_data = qndata.futures.load_data(tail=365)
            len(futures_list), len(futures_data.asset)
            

            The first output was
            (31, 31)
            After I deleted all files in the data-cache folder I got
            (71, 31)
            So I now have the full updated list but not the data. Is there anything else I can do?

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            • support
              support @antinomy last edited by

              @antinomy

              Hello.

              Remove the folder data-cache and try again.

              It should be ok now.

              Regards.

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                antinomy @support last edited by

                @support Yes, it's working now. Thanks!

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                  captain.nidoran @support last edited by captain.nidoran

                  Hi again @support,
                  All my past submissions have recently disappeared from the competition >candidates tab, how can I select them for the futures context?
                  Or will they participate automatically in parallel over the original datasets as you explained before? In this case, how could I monitor them during the evaluation period?
                  Thanks one more time 😉

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                  • support
                    support @captain.nidoran last edited by

                    @captain-nidoran

                    Hello.

                    We are making some changes before starting competitions, it affected the statuses of some submissions and they became invisible on the client side. Now it should be ok.

                    We carefully preserve users' data, we are making backups every day. So in the worst case of data loss, we are able to restore most data from these backups. Don't worry a lot. And thank you for the report.

                    Regards.

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