"Invalid Benchmark Buy and Hold" with On Demand Data Updates from Yahoo
Author: MrIzzy
Creation Date: 8/5/2020 8:48 PM
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MrIzzy

#1

8/5/2020 8:48 PM

Just changed to WLD and to Yahoo Finance.

Using the option "On Demand Data Updates" seems to work for a few symbols and then just stops. The strategy stops at a random ticker and says "Invalid Benchmark Buy and Hold Symbol: XXX" where XXX is the ticker in the data set.

Is WLD not able to download the data on demand fast enough?

Is there a way to tell it to wait a bit longer until the data comes in ?
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Eugene

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8/5/2020 9:10 PM

A good practice is to keep your DataSet up to date and turn on demand updates off. Running a portfolio backtest on Yahoo data with on demand update enabled is perhaps a suboptimal idea.

Meanwhile here are other cases, check them out and I hope you find a solution in your context:

https://www.wealth-lab.com/Forum/Posts/Invalid-Benchmark-Buy-and-Hold-Symbol-messagebox-38985
https://www.wealth-lab.com/Forum/Posts/Invalid-Benchmark-Buy-and-Hold-Symbol-for-ETF-iNAV-with-IV-in-symbol-name-39950
https://www.wealth-lab.com/Forum/Posts/-quot-External-symbol-quot-Rule-and-quot-Invalid-Benchmark-Buy-and-Hold-quot-error-39180
https://www.wealth-lab.com/Forum/Posts/Error-quot-Invalid-Benchmark-Buy-and-Hold-Symbol-XAO-quot-38450
https://www.wealth-lab.com/Forum/Posts/Invalid-Benchmark-Buy-and-Hold-Symbol-35633
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