WIP Steamboat - trade and backtest stock market algorithms
Steamboat is a python framework for building financial algorithms for trading stocks on the market. It allows you to backtest strategies and trade both live and paper via the alpaca api. It comes prebuilt with two primary classes: AlpacaTrade and AlpacaBacktest. Create simple logic once, and run it through both the backtest and the live trading class. AlpacaTrade has built in support for paper trading, just specificy paper=True when initializing it. Before installing, head over to alpaca's website to get a paper account setup and grab the api keys generated.
Simply clone the repository to the root folder of your strategy.
git clone https://github.com/bryantbrock/steamboat.git
Then, access it via import, as if you had built the framework yourself.
from steamboat import AlpacaTrade, AlpacaBacktest