Manual (advanced) example doesn't work in Cantopy

[Volodymyr Vovchack]

I tried to run example from Zipline beginner tutorial (under Manual (advanced) topic) in Cantopy and it produced NameError: global name 'order' is not defined.

before that I run code labeled "My first algorithm" through cmd line, though i had to save it in some folder on PC. That run was successful.


Manual (advanced):
import pytz
 
from datetime import datetime

from zipline.algorithm import TradingAlgorithm

from zipline.utils.factory import load_bars_from_yahoo
 

# Load data manually from Yahoo! finance

start = datetime(2000, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, pytz.utc)

end = datetime(2012, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, pytz.utc)

data = load_bars_from_yahoo(stocks=['AAPL'], start=start,  end=end)

# Define algorithm

def initialize(context):

 pass

def handle_data(context, data):

 order(symbol('AAPL'), 10)

 record(AAPL=data[symbol('AAPL')].price)

# Create algorithm object passing in initialize and

# handle_data functions

algo_obj = TradingAlgorithm(initialize=initialize,

 handle_data=handle_data)

# Run algorithm

perf_manual = algo_obj.run(data)

[Mark Francis]

Try adding "from zipline.api import order_target, record, history, symbol, add_history, order" to your imports at the top. That usually covers all the things I use.