Backtest Trading Strategies

Finance and crypto

trading strategy backtesting

SHOW HN2020

35points
11comments
#1,277of 3,028 in 2020
Top 43%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

0 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.

Idea: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Site design looks great

    From 1 comment
    • The "Watch our video" link on the landing homepage is broken, or at least broken for me. Great work on the site design though, it looks great
      nslocum on HN

Objections

  • Not a real Quantopian alternative; only a basic strategy backtester without code or multi-stock trading

    From 1 comment
    • This isn't a Quantopian alternative, Quantopian let you write real code and automatically trade based on it. It also let you trade buckets of stocks, not just one. This is just a…
      throwaway9d0291 on HN
  • Video link on landing page is broken

    From 1 comment
    • The "Watch our video" link on the landing homepage is broken, or at least broken for me. Great work on the site design though, it looks great
      nslocum on HN

Requests

  • Add more features and strategies, including code-based strategies

    From 2 comments
    • Hence the comments on adding a lot more stuff. I know it's not Quantopian right now but quantopian also started with a simple backtester which they then expanded quite well. I…
      hydershykh on HN
    • Developer of the tool here. With the recent shut down of Quantopian, I thought why not start developing a similar system. I have already been working on this for a few months and…
      hydershykh on HN
  • Add crypto datasets

    From 1 comment
    • Any plans for additional datasets for cypto? Numerai and a few others are mentioned providing datasets (NLP datasets too) and algos described here 'Machine Learning for Crypto'…
      ronald_eagleton on HN

Questions

  • What language is it written in and what language can strategies use?

    From 1 comment
    • What language is this written in? What language can my strategy use? Any api documentation?
      MrMan on HN
  • Is there API documentation?

    From 1 comment
    • What language is this written in? What language can my strategy use? Any api documentation?
      MrMan on HN

Alternatives named

  • QuantConnect

    From 1 comment
    • This isn't a Quantopian alternative, Quantopian let you write real code and automatically trade based on it. It also let you trade buckets of stocks, not just one. This is just a…
      throwaway9d0291 on HN
  • Thinkscript on TD Ameritrade

    From 1 comment
    • This isn't a Quantopian alternative, Quantopian let you write real code and automatically trade based on it. It also let you trade buckets of stocks, not just one. This is just a…
      throwaway9d0291 on HN

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