For one of my strategies I need to check if an ex-dividend date occurs on the current bar. Could someone point me to instructions on how to code this?

See the QuickRef example of FundamentalDataItems for more on topic.

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Help with this concept.

I have been caught short by mistake a couple of times on dividend paying stocks on ex div dates.

Is there something like the in windows method for ex div dates?


Thank you

Not sure what your problem is, but hope this might help your development:

Morningstar Fundamental Provider: extended Dividend data

Thanks.

I am trying to not be short when being short will require me to pay a dividend particularly when it is one of those large extraordinary ones which happened to me last year.

It doesn't look to me like Morningstar can help since it doesn't appear to provide future ex-dividend dates. Fidelity's provider does have future dividend information, for example, in the Dow 30:

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If you had this info, you just need to use the TradingDaysBetweenDates function in Community.Components to Alert you to liquidate a position the day before an ex-date. (Note that a future date does have a bar associated with it, that's why you have to work with dates for this task - at least for the ex-date in the future.)

Anyway, I don't understand the concern so much about paying the dividend. If you're short for the ex-date, your position will increase in value as the dividend is essentially knocked off the share price at the open.

I created a dataset w/ one stock from morningstar. Stock is AWI

I copied the code from wealth-labwiki compile (it compiles) and I get the following error when I click AWI

Runtime error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at WealthLab.Strategies.MyStrategy.Execute()


Thanks for help.

It creates an accounting nightmare!

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I copied the code from wealth-labwiki compile (it compiles) and I get the following error when I click AWI

It will compile regardless. You don't have the data provider installed and/or haven't updated its fundamentals. I checked on AWI and it works. Nonetheless, it seems that the provider won't help as Cone said.