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Moving Average Backtest Questions

As a new user to Quantopian, and coming from a coding background with very little financial knowledge, I'm having trouble understanding this backtest. Obviously the overall returns are pretty good, but the Beta value seems very high, and the algorithm was only very successful in the last stretch of the test. If anyone would be able to help me understand what is going on here, it would be much appreciated.