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# What is margot?
Margot is a library of components that may be used together or separately. The
first major component; *margot.data* is now available for public preview.
It should be considered an early-beta. It works, but may still have sharp edges.
# What is margot data?
Margot data makes it super easy to create neat and tidy Pandas dataframes for
time-series analysis.
Margot data aims to manage data collection, caching, cleaning, feature
generation, management and persistence using a clean, declarative API. If you've
ever used Django you'll find this approach similar to the Django ORM.
## Columns
The heart of any time-series dataframe is the original data. Margot can retrieve
time-series data from external sources (currently AlphaVantage). To add a time-
series from an original source, such as "closing_price" or "volume", we declare
a *Column*:
e.g. Let's get closing_price and volume from AlphaVantage:
adjusted_close = av.Column(time_series='adjusted_close')
daily_volume = av.Column(time_series='volume')
## Features
Columns are useful, but we usually want to derive new time-series from them,
such as "log_returns" or "SMA20". Margot does this for you; we've called these
derived time-series, *Features*.
simple_returns = finance.SimpleReturns(column='adjusted_close')
log_returns = finance.LogReturns(column='adjusted_close')
sma20 = finance.SimpleMovingAverage(column='adjusted_close', window=20)
Features can be piled on top of one another. For example, to create a
time-series of realised volatility based on log_returns with a lookback of 30
trading days, simply add the following feature:
realised_vol = finance.RealisedVolatility(column='log_returns', window=30)
Margot includes many common financial Features, and we'll be adding more soon.
It's also very easy to add your own.
## Symbols
Often, you want to make a dataframe combining a number of columns and features.
Margot makes this very easy by providing the Symbol class e.g.
class MyEquity(Symbol):
adjusted_close = av.Column(time_series='adjusted_close')
log_returns = finance.LogReturns(column='adjusted_close')
realised_vol = finance.RealisedVolatility(column='log_returns',
window=30)
upper_band = finance.UpperBollingerBand(column='adjusted_close',
window=20,
width=2.0)
sma20 = finance.SimpleMovingAverage(column='adjusted_close',
window=20)
lower_band = finance.LowerBollingerBand(column='adjusted_close',
window=20,
width=2.0)
spy = MyEquity(symbol='SPY')
## MargotDataFrames
You usually you want to look at more than one symbol. That's where
MargotDataFrames come in. MargotDataFrames combine multiple
Symbols with dataframe-wide Features and Ratios. For example:
class MyEnsemble(MargotDataFrame):
spy = MyEquity(symbol='SPY', trading_calendar='NYSE')
iwm = MyEquity(symbol='IWM', trading_calendar='NYSE')
spy_iwm_ratio = Ratio(numerator=spy.adjusted_close,
denominator=iwm.adjusted_close,
label='spy_iwm_ratio')
my_df = MyEnsemble().to_pandas()
The above code creates a Pandas DataFrame of two equities, and an additional
feature that calculates a time-series of the ratio of their respective
adjusted close prices.
## Margot's other parts
**not yet released.**
Margot aims to provide a simple framework for writing and backtesting trading
signal generation algorithms using margot.data.
Results from margot's trading algorithms can be analysed with pyfolio.
# Getting Started
pip install margot
Next you need to make sure you have a couple of important environment variables
set::
export ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY
export DATA_CACHE=PATH_TO_FOLDER_TO_STORE_HDF5_FILES
Once you've done that, try running the code in the [notebook](notebook.margot.data).
# Status
This is still an early stage software project, and should not be used for live
trading just yet.
# Documentation
For examples see the [notebook](notebook.margot.data).
The main documentation is at [readthedocs](https://margot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
# Contributing
Feel free to make a pull request or chat about your idea first using [issues](https://github.com/atkinson/margot/issues).
Dependencies are kept to a minimum. Generally if there's a way to do something
in the standard library (or numpy / Pandas), let's do it that way rather than
add another library.
# License
Margot is licensed for use under Apache 2.0. For details see [the License](https://github.com/atkinson/margot/blob/master/LICENSE).