alpaca-trading-backtest

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Run historical backtests with Alpaca's Trading API.

Authoralpacahq
Version1.0.0
Installs0

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What problem does it solve?

This Skill allows users to execute historical backtests for trading strategies using the Alpaca Trading API, providing a reproducible research workflow for strategy evaluation.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Historical Backtesting: Simulate historical trades and analyze strategy performance.
  • Reproducibility: Generate reproducible results for strategy validation.
  • Use Case: Backtest a trading strategy over a specified period to assess its historical performance before live trading.

Quick Start

Run a backtest for the strategy 'my_strategy.py' from 2020-01-01 to 2025-12-31.

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

alpacapandasnumpy

Components

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Name: alpaca-trading-backtest
Download link: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-skills/archive/main.zip#alpaca-trading-backtest

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