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Better contest algos if provided minute-by-minute price visualization in the backtest performance chart

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I think that it would be great to visualize the major intra-day performance movements/changes in the backtest chart and not only the end-of-day day-by-day/close price changes in performance. Something similar to the paper-trading performance chart. It would improve very much the live trading contest algos, as the developers learn how the algos are really behaving in the real world and try to improve them even more.
Please tell me what you think. Thank you!

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I agree. A backtest dashboard like the contest dashboard would be pretty handy. Would be ideal to have a tool where I could custom select the range of days over which I could get the detailed intra-day performance. You could drop a comment here https://www.quantopian.com/posts/feature-requests-what-changes-would-you-like-to-see