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Show HN: Backtest Trading Strategies: A Quantopian Alternative

by hydershykh on 10/30/20, 9:48 AM with 11 comments

  • by throwaway9d0291 on 10/30/20, 2:43 PM

    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 very basic strategy backtester, there are plenty like it, you can find them if you Google "technical backtester" and some of the brokers (e.g. TD Ameritrade) even let you do such backtests in their platforms (e.g. Thinkscript, though that's a tad more Quantopian-like than this tool).

    If you want a _real_ Quantopian alternative, look at QuantConnect [0]. Interestingly, it's .NET based and you can write C#, F#, Python or whatever you want.

    And the trading engine is open-source [1] and you can run it yourself.

    [0]: https://www.quantconnect.com/

    [1]: https://github.com/QuantConnect/Lean

  • by hydershykh on 10/30/20, 9:49 AM

    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 it just went live a few weeks ago - I wanted to make it a paid backtester but with the shutdown, I figured people would want different alternatives, so here it is. Completely free and offers many strategies for testing.

    If there is enough demand, we can add a lot more stuff.

    Happy to answer any questions.

  • by ronald_eagleton on 10/30/20, 11:30 AM

    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' Traders https://eduardmason.medium.com/machine-learning-for-crypto-t...

  • by mritchie712 on 10/30/20, 2:18 PM

    Does anyone know why Quantopian closed the community version? This post is quite vague https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopians-community-servi...