pythonmacoszipline

where are the .pickle files saved?

I'm a beginner to zipline and I have been trying to run the example here given in the QuickStart:

https://github.com/quantopian/zipline

I was able to get this command to run on my mac in terminal:

python run_algo.py -f dual_moving_average.py --symbols AAPL --start 2011-1-1 --end 2012-1-1 -o dma.pickle

But after spinning for a bit, It was done and I expected the dma.pickle file to be saved in the same folder as the file: dual_moving_average.py but it was not saved there.

I'm not sure where it is saved on my mac, the instructions don't seem to say.

I ran a spotlight search on my mac for dma.pickleand nothing picked up.

Solution

  • I figured out that the parameters for output should not be -o.

    It should be -output.

    So this will output the pickle:

    python -f dual_moving_average.py --start 2011-1-1 --end 2012-1-1 -output dma.pickle