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Zipline is a Pythonic algorithmic trading library. It is an event-driven system for backtesting. Zipline is currently used in production as the backtesting and live-trading engine powering Quantopian -- a free, community-centered, hosted platform for building and executing trading strategies. Quantopian also offers a fully managed service for professionals that includes Zipline, Alphalens, Pyfolio, FactSet data, and more.
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Features
- Ease of Use: Zipline tries to get out of your way so that you can focus on algorithm development. See below for a code example.
- "Batteries Included": many common statistics like moving average and linear regression can be readily accessed from within a user-written algorithm.
- PyData Integration: Input of historical data and output of performance statistics are based on Pandas DataFrames to integrate nicely into the existing