I've been digging through the forums, tutorials, and docs but I can't find a proper example for using the Research Notebook to replicate the backtest IDE. I'm sure it's just lost in the search results somewhere, but a basic example of using the Notebook to match, as closely as possible, the Backtest IDE would be very helpful.
A good question and suggestion. Apparently this would be very helpful for new comers. How come there is zero comment on this one for two years?
The research environment (ie notebooks) and the IDE (ie algos) are distinctly different. They certainly share the common python platform and one can fetch data in a similar way in each using pipeline. One can't however directly run backtests from a notebook. Look at the 'Getting Started' tutorials especially Lesson 4 'Strategy Analysis' and Lesson 5 'Algorithm API'. Those demonstrate the workflow of developing factors within a notebook, analyzing those factors using Alphalens, and then migrating that logic to an algo in the IDE.
In 2017, when the question was originally posted, it was possible to run backtests in a notebook. However, this feature was eliminated mid-2018. ( see this post https://www.quantopian.com/posts/zipline-dot-tradingalgorithm-removed-from-research-and-backtesting ).
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Sorry for any confusion. Good luck.
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