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Daily equity data is free in the cloud backtest environment. So apparently it's not a profit center; you're just required by your license to not let the data “escape” without being purchased.
What if I bring my own data? Can I drop it into the data tree and use it like QC-sourced data? I would like to experiment with offline backtesting and make sure I like QC before I commit to a year's subscription.
I see the docs that explain how to change your strategy code to import arbitrary data. That's not what I'm looking for. I want to use my own equity data exactly the same as I use QC equity data, just self.AddEquity &etc. The same code should work whether I'm doing local/offline backtests with my data or cloud backtests with QC data.
I constructed an OHLC file in the proper format, and put it in the right place. But I'm having trouble with the zip format. Neither gzip nor bzip2 works; Ionic.Zip says “Cannot read that as a Zipfile.” So what zip format does QC use?
Is there any additional magic required to make a symbol file work with QC, like connecting into map/factor files or suchlike? I'd like divs/splits to work properly, but I can accept a hacked approach that doesn't properly handle dividends/splits/etc; this is for evaluating the platform, not for doing research.
Varad Kabade
Hi Gary Fritz,
I constructed an OHLC file in the proper format, and put it in the right place. But I'm having trouble with the zip format. Neither gzip nor bzip2 works; Ionic.Zip says “Cannot read that as a Zipfile.” So what zip format does QC use?
We recommend trying to create a C# project to zip the data. For more information, refer to the following [1, 2].
Is there any additional magic required to make a symbol file work with QC, like connecting into map/factor files or suchlike? I'd like divs/splits to work properly, but I can accept a hacked approach that doesn't properly handle dividends/splits/etc; this is for evaluating the platform, not for doing research.
For examples on factor or map files, please go through the data folder for reference.
Best,
Varad Kabade
Gary Fritz
Hm. Thanks for the pointer, Varad. But I'm not sure I'm up for that. I haven't done any C++ work in many years, and I've never worked with C#. I don't know the build environment or anything. I don't have the bandwidth right now to spin up on an entire new development environment, on top of trying to learn QC. Maybe later…
Gary Fritz
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