BackTesting platform written in Python to test trading strategies.
The blog:
Read the full documentation at readthedocs.org:
List of built-in Indicators (88)
- Python 2.7
- Python 3.2/3.3/3.4/3.5
- It also works with pypy and pypy3 (no plotting - matplotlib is not supported under pypy)
Compatibility is tested during development with 2.7 and 3.4
The other versions are tested automatically with Travis.
backtrader
is self-contained with no external dependencies (except if you
want to plot)
From pypi:
pip install backtrader
pip install backtrader[matplotlib]
If matplotlib is not installed and you wish to do some plotting
Note
The minimum matplotlib version is 1.4.1
From source:
- Place the backtrader directory found in the sources inside your project
- Bar by Bar (next) operation or batch mode (once) operation
- Indicators and the addition of any custom end-user developed one
- Strategies
- Data Feeds from Online Sources or CSV Files (other forms could be implemented) - Including
Pandas Dataframes
- Data Feeds with different timeframes
- Data Feed Resampling
- Data Feed Replaying
- A Broker implementation supporting
- Commision schemes for stocks and derivatives
- Orders: AtClose, AtMarket, AtLimit, Stop, StopLimit
- Position Sizers for the automatic determination of the stake
- Optimization of Strategies with multicore support
- Plotting
- Live Data Feeds/Trading
- Interactive Brokers
X.Y.Z.I
- X: Major version number. Should stay stable unless something big is changed like an overhaul to use numpy
- Y: Minor version number. To be changed upon adding a complete new feature or (god forbids) an incompatible API change.
- Z: Revision version number. To be changed for documentation updates, small changes, small bug fixes
- I: Number of Indicators already built into the platform
If after seeing the docs (see also the example below) you feel this is not your cup of tea, you can always have a look at similar Python platforms:
bt
slightly pre-datesbacktrader
and has a completely different approach but it is funny I chose bt as the abbreviation forbacktrader
during imports and that some of the methods have the same naming (obvious naming anyhow): "run, plot ..."