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Backtest strategies on IBridgePy

May 20, 2019

Learning to backtest strategies is essential before deploying them in live trading. IBridgePy Backtester enables you to backtest strategies IBridgePy using historical data from Interactive Brokers. This guide shows how to backtest strategies effectively using Python.

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Introduction to IBridgePy Backtester

We are very pleased to announce that IBridgePy Backtester is released from V 5.0.1. The main feature of IBridgePy Backtester is to backtest strategies using historical data that are retrieved from Interactive Brokers or other data providers. When you backtest strategies IBridgePy supports most of IBridgePy functions and Quantopian functions. In this blog, we are going to introduce how to test your trading algorithms effectively.

The webinar of backtest and live trading with Interactive Brokers is on youtube

For detailed backtesting tutorials and examples, visit our tutorials section or check our documentation.