Yahoo API Note:
With release
1.9.50.117
data samples and YahooFinance data feeds have been updated to the latest available information. But being the format not documented, there could still be changes and unexpected corners.
For feedback/questions/issues use the Community
Here a snippet of a Simple Moving Average CrossOver. It can be done in several different ways. Use the docs (and examples) Luke! :
from datetime import datetime
import backtrader as bt
class SmaCross(bt.SignalStrategy):
def __init__(self):
sma1, sma2 = bt.ind.SMA(period=10), bt.ind.SMA(period=30)
crossover = bt.ind.CrossOver(sma1, sma2)
self.signal_add(bt.SIGNAL_LONG, crossover)
cerebro = bt.Cerebro()
cerebro.addstrategy(SmaCross)
data0 = bt.feeds.YahooFinanceData(dataname='YHOO', fromdate=datetime(2011, 1, 1),
todate=datetime(2012, 12, 31))
cerebro.adddata(data0)
cerebro.run()
cerebro.plot()
Including a full featured chart. Give it a try! This is included in the samples as sigsmacross/sigsmacross2.py
. Along it is sigsmacross.py
which can be parametrized from the command line.
Live Trading and backtesting platform written in Python.
- Live Data Feed and Trading with
- Interactive Brokers (needs
IbPy
and benefits greatly from an installedpytz
)- Visual Chart (needs a fork of
comtypes
until a pull request is integrated in the release and benefits frompytz
)- Oanda (needs
oandapy
) (REST API Only - v20 did not support streaming when implemented)- Data feeds from csv/files, online sources or from pandas and blaze
- Filters for datas (like breaking a daily bar into chunks to simulate intraday)
- Multiple data feeds and multiple strategies supported
- Multiple timeframes at once
- Integrated Resampling and Replaying
- Step by Step backtesting or at once (except in the evaluation of the Strategy)
- Integrated battery of indicators
- TA-Lib indicator support (needs python ta-lib / check the docs)
- Easy development of custom indicators
- Analyzers (for example: TimeReturn, Sharpe Ratio, SQN) and
pyfolio
integration- Flexible definition of commission schemes
- Integrated broker simulation with Market, Close, Limit, Stop, StopLimit, StopTrail, StopTrailLimitand OCO, orders, slippage and continuous cash adjustmet for future-like instruments
- Plotting (requires matplotlib)
The blog:
Read the full documentation at:
List of built-in Indicators (116)
- Python
2.7
- Python
3.2
/3.3
/3.4
/3.5
/3.6
- It also works with
pypy
andpypy3
(no plotting -matplotlib
is not supported under pypy)
Compatibility is tested during development with 2.7
and 3.5
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[plotting]
If
matplotlib
is not installed and you wish to do some plotting
Note
The minimum matplotlib version is 1.4.1
An example for IB Data Feeds/Trading:
IbPy
doesn't seem to be in PyPi. Do either:pip install git+https://github.com/blampe/IbPy.git
or (if
git
is not available in your system):pip install https://github.com/blampe/IbPy/archive/master.zip
For other functionalities like: Visual Chart
, Oanda
, TA-Lib
, check the dependencies in the documentation.
From source:
- Place the backtrader directory found in the sources inside your project
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 and some samples (see the blog also) you feel this is not your cup of tea, you can always have a look at similar Python platforms:
- PyAlgoTrade
- Zipline
- Ultra-Finance
- ProfitPy
- pybacktest
- prophet
- quant
- AlephNull
- Trading with Python
- visualize-wealth
- tia: Toolkit for integration and analysis
- QuantSoftware Toolkit
- Pinkfish
bt
slightly pre-datesbacktrader
and has a completely different approach but it is funny bt was also chosen as the abbreviation forbacktrader
during imports and that some of the methods have the same naming (obvious naming anyhow):run
,plot
...- PyThalesians
- QSTrader
- QSForex
- pysystemtrade
- QTPyLib
- RQalpha