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November 5, 2018
Backtesting In Backtrader
At this meeting we went over backtesting in backtrader.
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You will need to download Anaconda.
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Open Jupyter Notebook or Atom (or any other place you can execute python)
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Jupyter comes with Anaconda. To open Jupyter
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Click on the Anaconda desktop icon (looks like a green circle)
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Click "launch" on Jupyter Notebook
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To open Atom follow these instructions
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Run the following code:
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If you're using Jupyter: !pip install backtrader
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If you're using Atom: pip install backtrader
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You can find out more about backtrader here

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