Hello,
Could you please describe the Quantopian policy as regards the possibility of saving data files, be it of intermediate calculation results or final backtest results, to the hard drive? Can we save any file with data , by adding code inside our algorithms, to the hard disk? Can we store such files somewhere on Quantopian between sessions? Can we export such files from Quantopian to our local machines?
The files can be in any format, but preferably something simple like csv.
Kind regards,
Quantopian does not support download of data to external drives, since the datasets provided can only be used on the site, per the licensing agreements with vendors. However, if you run a backtest, you can then pull the results into the research environment using get_backtest (see the help page for a description).
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