Stock Algorithm Tester

Inspiration

We wanted to learn about trading algorithms and the stock market.

What it does

Essentially it takes a viable trading strategy and back test it against historical stock data. Once the tester is down it returns the stats about the strategy like the ROI and the amount of money in your account.

How we built it

We built our project using python for the logic that handled data mainly from Yahoo finance.

Challenges we ran into

Creating strategies that actually make money. Figuring out complex strategies.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Creating the different strategies and also implementing a way to retrieve the data from Yahoo.

What we learned

We learned trading algorithms are very complicated and that stock trading is very hard to keep track of, even the most efficient algorithms had mediocre returns at times.