Backtrader
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I'm new to Python, but have traded futures for years and use Easylanguage. I'm looking for help from a tutor/coder/consultant to do some things on Backtrader. Any suggestions of where to find someone?
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I also thought I'd need someone to help teach me, however, after reading the source code of bt a few times (and learning python in the mean time), I started to do what I need myself.
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That sounds encouraging. Thanks.
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@baykids4 Also, the samples are very helpful, once you read them .. you'll start getting it.
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I can share the same as @chewbacca. It took sometime to get used to it.. But its worth spending the initial time to learn and understand. Once you get it, lt will make life lot easier. You can always ask in the forum if you are stuck.. people are very helpful. of course happy to connect and share ideas if that's exactly what you prefer.
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I love backtrader but I'm not playing on futures. I know that TradeStation is perfect for it. I imagine I will move to futures soon. But I'm curious since TS is apparently so good, what are the advantages of backtrader that you want to use it instead of TS?
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@MrKalindro when bt lacks a feature, you can code it yourself, whereas with tradestation you're out of luck.
I'm not familiar with tradestation, but to give an example, I doubt it's possible to do something as simple as detrending your data on their platform.
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@hghhgghdf-dfdf said in Backtrader:
I'm not familiar with tradestation, but to give an example, I doubt it's possible to do something as simple as detrending your data on their platform.
http://help.tradestation.com/10_00/eng/tsdevhelp/elword/function/detrend_function_.htm
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@ab_trader Meant detrending every ohlc input before providing the data to the backtester. The function provided in this link just seems like a fancy rolling mean?
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I've used different software - amibroker, little bit of tradestation, wealthlab, excel/VBA, python. They all about the same in terms of what you can implement. It was other programming languages before the python, most of them are more powerful than python. Main reasons why python is used widely now are (1) it is free, (2) it is easy to learn, (3) has very large community writing free code, which anyone can use for trading. Actually (3) is a result of (1) and (2).
Would be interesting to hear why OP is switching from TS to python. I actually returned back to amibroker since it appeared that for me python is slow.
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@ab_trader again, just an indicator. this isn't changing your ohlc data.
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@hghhgghdf-dfdf in my backtest I don't change prices since this is baseline, so indicators are enough for me. Anyway, I don't see any reasons to argue further. Python is best for you - fine with me.
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How's this project doing? It looks like there are a few dozen active members but nothing's been updated in any repos the past few months, am I missing something?
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@Kevin-Parker You aren't missing anything, no devs, no new features.
