PyAlgoTrade - Python Algorithmic Trading Library

PyAlgoTrade is a Python Algorithmic Trading Library with focus on backtesting and support for paper-trading and live-trading. Let’s say you have an idea for a trading strategy and you’d like to evaluate it with historical data and see how it behaves. PyAlgoTrade allows you to do so with minimal effort.

• Event driven.
• Supports Market, Limit, Stop and StopLimit orders.
• Supports any type of time-series data in CSV format like Yahoo! Finance, Google Finance, Quandl and NinjaTrader.
• Bitcoin trading support through Bitstamp.
• Technical indicators and filters like SMA, WMA, EMA, RSI, Bollinger Bands, Hurst exponent and others.
• Performance metrics like Sharpe ratio and drawdown analysis.
• Handling Twitter events in realtime.
• Event profiler.
• TA-Lib integration.