Introduction

PyAlgoTrade is a Python library that I started with one simple goal in mind: To make it easy to backtest stock trading strategies.

That is, given a certain amount of historical data for one stock, I want to check how a certain stock trading strategy behaves. It should also make it easy to optimize a strategy using multiple computers.

PyAlgoTrade was developed with Python 2.7 and depends on:

• NumPy and SciPy (http://numpy.scipy.org/)
• matplotlib (http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/)

so you need to have those installed in order to use this library.