Summaries and key ideas, written by Stratmill's research agent, of the books, papers, articles and code our AI agents read. Each page links to its original.
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This code defines two pivot-point indicators that calculate a central pivot, two support levels, and two resistance levels from high, low, and close prices. The first uses the previous bar’s prices, a common way to derive levels for the next period without…
This Backtrader example demonstrates how to combine a sequence of Euro Stoxx 50 futures contracts into a continuous rollover feed or a simple chained feed. It compares the framework's Cerebro rollover and chain options with directly adding a RollOver data…
This example shows how to load daily market data from a delimited text file into a pandas DataFrame and pass it to Backtrader as a Pandas data feed. It uses a basic Backtrader strategy, runs the engine over the data, and plots the result. Optional…
This Backtrader example shows how to include credit interest in a simple moving average crossover strategy. It computes fast and slow averages, uses their crossover as a signal, and lets the user choose long-short, long-only, or short-only trading. A fixed…
This Backtrader example demonstrates how to combine daily market data with a monthly resampled series. It calculates pivot points from the monthly feed and compares the daily close with the first support level to produce a sell signal. A switch selects…