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Welcome to the Icarus-bt wiki!
Icarus is a Python package designed to facilitate the backtesting of trading strategies. It provides a framework to simulate and evaluate trading decisions based on historical data.
Goes through the simple steps of installing Icarus-bt on your system with a virtual environment if wanted
Explains the different functionality and applications of each module
Explain the process of acquiring Historical Data to run your tests on
Goes step by step through what is needed to build your strategy class for Riley
Walk through the process of setting up the Riley engine for back testing
This page shows what sort of graphs you can build with the output from the back test
Template showing what information is needed for contributing
Shows most common issues when trying to run a back test with possible solutions