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Trade log export

Just an idea - it would be great functionality to be able to export your trade log / other backtest results for analysis in excel. Right now it feels painfully slow trying to read through the trades/console to see if the algo is behaving correctly :) I don't imagine it would be very difficult and would allow the users to run any kind of analysis they want on the performance with little change to the backtesting UI

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We're going to go what we hope is one step better - we're making backtest results accessible in the research platform. In the research platform you're going to be able to analyze all of your backtests and compare them and so on.

The problem with a simple export is our data restrictions. If you buy one share per minute for 12 years and export that, then you have the entire price history of that stock. Our data provider would not be pleased, to put it mildly.

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If we import the data ourselves (meaning we owned/bought the data), can we then be allowed to export the transaction details?