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Having variables disseminated across a notebook is a source of errors. All parameters, variables, websites, lists, and Booleans are centralized in one place before processing the data. This is where you will adjust settings if desired:

website = 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S%26P_500_companies'
params = ['2014-12-31', None, 63, 0.05, 0.05, 1.5, 2,5,2.5,3]
start,end,vlty_n,dist_pct,retrace_pct,threshold,dgt,d_vol,r_vol,lvl= [params[h] for h in range(len(params))]
rel_var = ['^GSPC','SP500', 'USD']
bm_ticker, bm_col, ccy_col = [rel_var[h] for h in range(len(rel_var))]
window = 100
st= fast = 50
lt = slow = 200
batch_size = 20
show_batch = True
save_ticker_df = False
save_last_row_df = False
save_regime_df = False
web_df_cols = ['Symbol','Security','GICS Sector','GICS Sub-Industry']
regime_cols = ['rg','rrg',
    'smaC'+str(st)+str(lt),&apos...