# QUANTCONNECT.COM - Democratizing Finance, Empowering Individuals. # Lean Algorithmic Trading Engine v2.0. Copyright 2014 QuantConnect Corporation. # # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. # You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. from AlgorithmImports import * ### ### This example demonstrates how to add options for a given underlying equity security. ### It also shows how you can prefilter contracts easily based on strikes and expirations, and how you ### can inspect the option chain to pick a specific option contract to trade. ### ### ### ### class BasicTemplateOptionsAlgorithm(QCAlgorithm): underlying_ticker = "GOOG" def initialize(self): self.set_start_date(2015, 12, 24) self.set_end_date(2015, 12, 24) self.set_cash(100000) equity = self.add_equity(self.underlying_ticker) option = self.add_option(self.underlying_ticker) self.option_symbol = option.symbol # set our strike/expiry filter for this option chain option.set_filter(lambda u: (u.strikes(-2, +2) # Expiration method accepts TimeSpan objects or integer for days. # The following statements yield the same filtering criteria .expiration(0, 180))) #.expiration(TimeSpan.zero, TimeSpan.from_days(180)))) # use the underlying equity as the benchmark self.set_benchmark(equity.symbol) def on_data(self, slice): if self.portfolio.invested or not self.is_market_open(self.option_symbol): return chain = slice.option_chains.get(self.option_symbol) if not chain: return # we sort the contracts to find at the money (ATM) contract with farthest expiration contracts = sorted(sorted(sorted(chain, \ key = lambda x: abs(chain.underlying.price - x.strike)), \ key = lambda x: x.expiry, reverse=True), \ key = lambda x: x.right, reverse=True) # if found, trade it if len(contracts) == 0: return symbol = contracts[0].symbol self.market_order(symbol, 1) self.market_on_close_order(symbol, -1) def on_order_event(self, order_event): self.log(str(order_event))