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Generate a single option index

Generate a single option index

post/helper/index-template/single_option

Request

Request body

exposurenumber required

percentage of the underlying you want exposure to

option_underlying'SPY' | 'QQQ' | 'IWM' | 'EFA' | 'EEM' | 'TLT' | 'LQD' | 'HYG' | 'GLD'
rebalancing_strategy'weekly_Monday' | 'weekly_Tuesday' | 'weekly_Wednesday' | 'weekly_Thursday' | 'weekly_Friday' | 'monthly_End_Of_Month' | 'monthly_3rd_Friday' required

the rebalancing schedule

root'SPY' | 'QQQ' | 'IWM' | 'EFA' | 'EEM' | 'TLT' | 'LQD' | 'HYG' | 'GLD'
run_hourinteger required

set to the hour of day to run the index in the index's timezone

run_minuteinteger required

set to the minute of the hour to run the index

timezonestring

set to the timezone of the index

base_datestring required

the date that the index has level 'base_value'

base_valuenumber required

set the index value on base_date to this base_value

bbg_tickerstring

due to the limitations of the Bloomberg ticker creation process (no API), this must be a pre-created ticker. You can email MerQube a list of tickers to create on your behalf at support@merqube.com. Then, you provide those as input to these indices

descriptionstring required

set to the description of the index, which will show on merqube.com

email_liststring[]

list of emails to send daily dissemination reports, and the initial backtest reports, to; if not specified, no emails will be sent

namestring required

set to the name of the index. Commonly people use the ticker as the name, but that is not necessary. Must be globally unique - you will get a 409 if this index name is taken

namespacestring required

set to the namespace of the index

titlestring required

set to the title of the index that shows up on merqube.com

Example request

{
  "strategy": {
    "method": "Covered",
    "options_method": "Strike"
  },
  "run_hour": 16,
  "run_minute": 30,
  "timezone": "US/Eastern",
  "base_date": "Tue, 04 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT",
  "base_value": 1000,
  "bbg_ticker": "MY_TICKER",
  "description": "My Index Description",
  "email_list": [
    "bob@mycompany.com",
    "alice@mycompany.com"
  ],
  "name": "My Index",
  "namespace": "mycompany",
  "title": "My Index Title"
}

Response

OK

Changes

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