Could I use Quantopian to test strategy with my own historical data (.csv)?

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Could I use Quantopian to test strategy with my own historical data (.csv)?

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I want to test trading strategy with European stocks, Japanese stocks or other countries' stocks.
Could I use my own .csv historical data to test it with Quantopian?
Thank you.

Jacky

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Yes, there's local_csv() in research: https://www.quantopian.com/help#quantopian_research_local_csv and fetch_csv() in algos (and research I guess?): https://www.quantopian.com/help#api-fetchcsv

WIll that work if we upload our own tick data?

Well, I'd say data is just data, it's what you do with it that counts. The backtester's lowest interval here is minutely, so you wouldn't be able to trade intra-minutely I guess.

You can use it in analysis any way you'd like though, but you could just as well do this on your own machine if you're not gonna use any data from the platform here.

Ah, ok. Yea I was wondering if this platform would allow us to trade in intervals smaller than 1 minute as long as our data wasn't the limiting factor.

I could do it on my own machine, but i am fairly new to coding algos and the quantopian interface is very user friendly.

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