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Cash returns

I am new in Quantopian. I have some experience with stocks and understand how their returns are generated. I would like to understand how is cash dealt with in the Quantopian algorithms. What kind of return it earns? Is there a time series for cash that can be inspected or plotted?

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Cash is cash. Unless you actively invest it within your algorithm it remains as cash. It is not automatically invested. It does not have any return. Therefore an all cash portfolio with $1000 when it starts will have exactly $1000 now and into the future.