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
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
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 HNDeveloper 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