If you use their library/SDK/Framework.... how do you actually trade, do you sti...

owyn · on Nov 6, 2012

Yep, almost any of them have an API these days. Your software would make the list of trades which is uploaded and executed...

Oh, I forgot about another backtesting framework for python. It has a built in IDE as well.

fawce · on Nov 7, 2012

I work at quantopian. We are working on broker integration, so you will be able to trade algos you develop live.

Our backtesting engine, Zipline, is opensource - https://github.com/quantopian/zipline

Zipline was unveiled at PyData NYC, and the presentation materials are here: https://app.quantopian.com/posts/hello-from-pydata