Ricardo Andrés Marino Rojas
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* Update MHDB CBOT Futures on Good Friday * Update MHDB CME Futures on Good Friday * Update MHDB CBOT Futures on Good Friday * Update MHDB CME Futures on Good Friday * Update MHDB comex and nymex futures on good friday * Revert "Update MHDB comex and nymex futures on good friday" Since all nymex and comex futures had a holiday on Good Friday, it's better to add the holiday on `Future-nymex-[*]` and `Future-comex-[*]` This reverts commit e111c8e4615855db1d6395e77ada4dca9295e5f6. * Remove Good Friday holiday for cme and cbot futures - Remove Good Friday holiday from `Future-cme-[*]` and `Future-cbot-[*]` - Add Good Friday holiday for specific cme and cbot futures * Add unit tests and update MHDB - Add unit tests asserting LEAN reads correctly Good Friday holidays and early closes for CME Group Futures - Update the holidays for other CME group Futures on MHDB * Fix bugs * Enhance unit tests
LEAN Data Formats
Introduction
From the beginning LEAN strived to use an open, human readable data format - independent of any specific database or file format. From this core philosophy we built LEAN to read its financial data from flat files on disk. Data compression is done in zip format; and all individual files are CSV or JSON.
When there is no activity for a security, the price is omitted to the file. Only new ticks, and price changes are recorded.
File Data Format
Although we strive to make all data formats identical it is often not possible. Below are links to dedicated documentation on the file format of the data in each asset type:
Equity | Forex | Options | Futures | Crypto
Folder Structure
Data files are separated and nested in a few predictable layers:
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Tick, Second and Minute Financial Data:
/data/securityType/marketName/resolution/ticker/date_tradeType.zip -
Hour, Daily Financial Data:
/data/securityType/marketName/resolution/ticker.zip
The marketName value is used to separate different tradable assets with the same ticker. E.g. EURUSD is traded on multiple brokerages all with slightly different prices.
Core Data Types
LEAN has a few core data types which are represented in all the asset classes we support. Below are links to their implementation in LEAN.
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TradeBar - TradeBar represents trade ticks of assets consolidated for a period. TradeBar file format is slightly different for high resolution (second, minute) and low resolution (daily, hour).
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QuoteBar - QuoteBar represents top of book quote data consolidated over a period of time (bid and ask bar).
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Tick - Tick data represents an individual record of trades ("trade ticks") or quote updates ("quote tick") for an asset. Tick data is instantaneous - it does not have a period.
Data Readers
All data is parsed from disk via Reader() methods. The Reader takes a single line of the file and converts it the appropriate type. i.e. TradeBar.Reader() method is a factory which returns TradeBar objects. When implementing custom data Readers are used
Other Data Formats
Theoretically LEAN can accept data in any format (database, API or flatfile). However practically we currently have reader implementations written for a flat file system.