startfms

the startfms.py launching script

Manual section:1 Manual group:FMS - a financial market simulator Date:2009-01-24 Author:Jean-Charles Bagneris

SYNOPSIS

startfms.py [options] [command] [experiment-config-file]

DESCRIPTION

FMS is an agent-based market simulator. The main program, startfms.py can read and validate an “experiment” config file, and/or run it, outputting transactions data on stdout or in a .csv file.

The experiment configuration file is described in experiment-conf.yml(5) or in the html documentation.

OPTIONS

Options override parameters values.

-h, --help	Show help message and quit.
--version	Report FMS version.
-L LEVEL, --loglevel LEVEL
	Set logging level to LEVEL. This overrides the -v option.
--verbose, -v	Set logging level to ‘info’. Overrided by -L or –loglevel option.
--show_books, --show_limits
	Show best limits on each step.
--timer	Show a day:time timer while experiment is running.
--unique_by_agent
	Orders in books are unique by agent : if the same agent places another order, previous one is deleted. This is the default.
--no_unique_by_agent
	Agents may place multiple orders.
--csvdelimiter DELIMITER
	CSV files delimiter value.
--randomseed SEED
	Ramdom seed value.
--outputfilename OUTPUTFILE, -o OUTPUTFILE
	Set output filename to OUTPUTFILE. This overrides the outpufilename parameter in experiment config file.
--orderslogfile FILENAME, --ordersfile FILENAME
	Set orders logfile name to FILENAME. This overrides the orderlogfilename parameter in experiment config file.
--repeat NUM	Repeat the experiment NUM times.

COMMANDS

check

Checks validity of experiment-config-file by trying to instanciate all classes : world, engines, markets and agents.

run

Run experiment from experiment-config-file.

SEE ALSO

experiment-conf.yml(5) or the html documentation.

BUGS

Probably many.