Backtesting 0.3.3

Backtest trading strategies in Python

Stars: 5422, Watchers: 5422, Forks: 1062, Open Issues: 177

The kernc/backtesting.py repo was created 5 years ago and the last code push was 2 months ago.
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How to Install backtesting

You can install backtesting using pip

pip install backtesting

or add it to a project with poetry

poetry add backtesting

Package Details

Author

Zach Lûster

License

AGPL-3.0

Homepage

https://kernc.github.io/backtesting.py/

PyPi:

https://pypi.org/project/Backtesting/

Documentation:

https://kernc.github.io/backtesting.py/doc/backtesting/

GitHub Repo:

https://github.com/kernc/backtesting.py

Classifiers

• Office/Business/Financial/Investment
• Scientific/Engineering/Visualization

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Errors

A list of common backtesting errors.

Code Examples

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GitHub Issues

The backtesting package has 177 open issues on GitHub

• Plotting result in TypeError: Index.get_loc() got an unexpected keyword argument 'method'
• Added live trading support
• Issues with updating class variables while walk-forward optimising
• Commission fees differ significantly.
• AssertionError
• Invalid daily aggregation of OHLC data with timezone/datetime offset
• Update GHA to ubuntu-latest
• BUG: trying to round none / string(tag) / Boolean (is_contingent)
• MT5 Position Netting changing SLO/TP to the last trade Python 3
• Backtest.plot() fails with resampling
• infer_datetime_format will be deprecated
• Error creating an order with size==0
• skOpt having issues with backtesting.Optimize (skOpt)
• Backtest plotting results in empty graph
• error in example doc with scikit-optimize

See more issues on GitHub