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DOC: Docs & tutorial updates for ingesting, beginners, and csvdir #2073
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One observation unrelated to your changes, I would remove/reword the live-trading support sentence at the beginning of the README.rst file. |
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PyData eco-system. | ||
- Statistic and machine learning libraries like matplotlib, scipy, | ||
PyData ecosystem. | ||
- **Statistics and Machine Learning libraries:** matplotlib, scipy, |
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I would reword this to explain how Zipline uses or interacts with these libraries.
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You can then run this algorithm using the Zipline CLI. From the command | |||
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You can then run this algorithm using the Zipline CLI; you'll need a `Quandl <https://www.quandl.com/>`__ API key for default data bundle. |
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Might want to link instead to the "Getting an API key" section of Quandl's docs:
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"API key for default data bundle." -> "API key to download the default data bundle."
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You can then run this algorithm using the Zipline CLI. From the command | ||
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You can then run this algorithm using the Zipline CLI; you'll need a `Quandl <https://www.quandl.com/>`__ API key for default data bundle. | ||
Once you have you key, rom the command line, run: |
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"Once you have you key, rom the command line, run:" -> "Once you have your key, run the following from the command line:"
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Run a backtest for the given algorithm. | ||
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-f, --algofile FILENAME The file that contains the algorithm to run. |
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Looks like the indentation here got messed up.
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This will download the AAPL price data from `quantopian-quandl` in the | ||
This will download the AAPL price data from `quandl` in the |
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I would generalize this a bit:
"This will download asset pricing data from quandl
, and stream it through the algorithm over the specified time range. Then, the resulting performance DataFrame is saved in dma.pickle, which you can load and analyze from within Python.
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If you haven't ingested the data, run: | |||
If you haven't ingested the data, you'll need a `Quandl <https://www.quandl.com/>`__ API key to |
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Same comment as before, we might want to link to https://docs.quandl.com/docs#section-authentication instead.
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standard location that zipline can find. By default the location where ingested | |||
data will be written is ``$ZIPLINE_ROOT/data/<bundle>`` where by default | |||
``ZIPLINE_ROOT=~/.zipline``. The ingestion step may take some time as it could | |||
involve downloading and processing a lot of data. This can be run with: | |||
involve downloading and processing a lot of data. You'll need a | |||
`Quandl <https://www.quandl.com/>`__ API key to ingest the default bundle. This can be run with: |
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We might want to link to "Getting an API key" section of Quandl docs, https://docs.quandl.com/docs#section-authentication
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@ernestoeperez88 should be good for another review |
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Zipline is a Pythonic algorithmic trading library. It is an event-driven | |||
system that supports both backtesting and live-trading. Zipline is currently used in production as the backtesting and live-trading | |||
system that for backtesting. Zipline is currently used in production as the backtesting and live-trading |
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"It is an event-drive system that for" -> "It is an event driven system for backtesting"
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You can then run this algorithm using the Zipline CLI. From the command | ||
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You can then run this algorithm using the Zipline CLI; you'll need a `Quandl <https://docs.quandl.com/docs#section-authentication>`__ API key to ingest the default data bundle. | ||
Once you have you key, run the following from the command line: |
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"Once you have you key" -> "Once you have your key"
@freddiev4 left comments on a couple of typos, otherwise LGTM. |
@ernestoeperez88 ok sweet. Will update and then merge 🙂 |
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Added some much needed doc updates here and also a mini tutorial for using
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files for your bundles (x-ref #2060)