Best Python Libraries for Backtesting and Algo Trading

Backtesting is the process of testing out your trading strategies with historical data.
It's an important step in building a profitable strategy.
In this video I share some of my favourite Python libraries for backtesting and algo trading, so you can start developing your own algorithmic trading system!

[mr.gk]

There’s VectorBT too. I find it easier to use and just as good as backtrader. The plotting capabilities is definitely more flexible and prettier

[gokhalesadan]

Backtrader has steep learning curve. need more videos on it.

[tradingalgorithmically]

I have used Zipline, it has a lot of hoops to jump to get "data digested". Maybe it makes Zipline faster, but I think hardware has caught up and undigested testing by backtrader doesn't appear slow. Zipline is incredibly hard to implement for non-US data.

[samrobinson-isaiah-v]

I have seen a lot of simple moving average cross videos for how to use backtrader, but not much on using something like stochastic RSI crosses or K stochastic crossing values of 20 and 80. This would be interesting to see!

[howtocrypto]

Can you do a video on using Connors RSI?

[tanyongsheng]

zipline-reloaded, a fork of zipline, which is actively maintained

[techbytefrontier]

latest commit on backtrader is from 8 months ago.. probably dead already