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Exporting Results of Quantopian Backtests
Joshua Vayle
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Hi guys (and girls),
I am that high school kid who is interested in this kind of thing. I am slowly building my skills in algorithmic trading. I am doing a school project on algorithmic trading. My question is can I take the results of a given backtest and export them to a plotting software. The reason I want to do this is that when I present the project I will (probably) have to do so while being offline. By exporting the results I am hoping to be able to save them locally on my computer. My question is can I do that and if so how? Also, if anyone has a suggestion for a charting program I am all ears.

  • Cheers

Josh V.

1 response
Grant Kiehne

Hello Josh,

The only way to export the results is to copy and paste from the browser and from the log output window. You could also do screen shots, to capture the output graphically.

Regarding a charting program, since you are coding in Python, you could try matplotlib. Alternatively, you could use Excel (or OpenOffice Calc). If you have a budget, you could look into KaleidaGraph or Origin. Matlab and Mathematica are also options, but probably overkill if you just need to generate a few charts.

Grant

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