Back-testing our strategy – Programming for Finance with Python – part 5

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In this tutorial, we cover actually executing our strategy against historical prices and historical fundamental data in a backtest. Here, we see how we did, compared to a benchmark, like the S&P 500 ETF, $SPY.

We use Quantopian to back test our strategy, since Quantopian automatically comes with a plethora of statistics and options for back-testing trading strategies.

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