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Questions about the new backtest view

Hi folks,

It seems in a recent update all full backtests go to the new Contest style backtest view. While this view has a lot of new cool features, can someone let me know how I can graph the benchmark against my algorithm and how I can see the graph of my recorded variables?

Thanks
Ed

2 responses

Hi Ed,

Right now, on the new page you can access the benchmark and recorded variables via the Notebook tab. To access your returns against the benchmark, you can pass in the benchmark_rets parameter to create_full_tear_sheet in the notebook, with the return stream of the benchmark you'd like to use. To access recorded variables, you can use the recorded_vars attribute of the backtest object (obtained via get_backtest). We're looking into adding these to the new page (if you'd like to access the old page, you can append /old to the end of the backtest page URL).

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Hi Abhijeet, thanks for leaving the /old route there until this stuff is figured out, really useful and easier that creating the full_tear_sheet thanks