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If you have ever pulled up a Heikin Ashi chart on a trading platform, you were probably awed at the

This is the second post covering the development of sizers in Backtrader. The first post provided an introduction to the basics, looked

One of the reasons backtesting often does not provide an accurate indication of real-world performance is that we receive a

We have covered using Backtrader’s analyzers in an earlier post. At that time, we looked at using the built-in TradeAnalyzer and

This weeks post is not directly related to Backtrader but will definitely come in useful as our journey into backtesting

When your algorithm graduates from a backtest environment to trading with a live account (be it demo or practice), there

Once you have started to get to grips with the basics, the logical next step is to add another level

The concept of margin and leverage can be a tricky one to setup correctly in a backtest environment. Each country

If you have read through the Backtrader: First Script post or seen any of the other code snippets on this site, you

A series of 349 tests have been performed across 4 markets over a 12 year period to determine how well