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Using research environment for simulating and backtesting
Dima vars
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Hi,

Let's assume I want to test in the research environment a simple algorithm I've implemented.
Is it possible ?

The only way I see it is to do everything manually:
Meaning getting the history of the last 5 years, iterating with a "for" loop over the data and calling my algorithm functions.
Then calculating the gains/loss, maybe even manually implement commissions\slippage mechanism.

Maybe I'm missing something ?
Another alternative is to not use the research environment and to research in the development environment, where I can backtest things easily.

I'm very new to quantopian, so maybe I'm missing what is the correct workflow.

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