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Hi,
Is there a way to get backtest results into the research environment?
This is what I was using on Quantopian to run pyfolio from the research environment:
import pyfolio
bt = get_backtest('59ba65befb066a54cb82b031')
bt.create_full_tear_sheet()
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Felipe Palhares Hampshire
This will be very helpful.
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Alexandre Catarino
Hi Lexx7 ,
We have created a GitHub issue to implement this feature:
[Research] QuantBook Retrieves Backtest Results For Analysis #4580
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Bruce Vanstone
Hi,
any update on this feature, or an example of how to access the backtest results for an algorithm for further analysis?
Cheers,
Bruce
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Laurent Crouzet
Bruce Vanstone A lot was added to analyse backtests. See:
https://github.com/QuantConnect/Lean/pull/4898I still need to do additionnal research to check that every data is available from this method...
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Shile Wen
Hi Bruce,
This was answered in this thread.
Best,
Shile Wen
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Shile Wen
Hi Bruce,
Under the Console, you should see "Backtesting Project ID: ..." and "Algorithm Id: ..." for the Project and Backtest IDs respectively.
Best,
Shile Wen
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Tarquinius Superbus
Hi QC team,
I am fairly new to the platform and has a question on accessing backtest result from research notebook. I was able to import the backtest object by using the command mentioned above. However I am not sure how to access the contents/values in the backtest object. Specifically, I want to see daily return/daily portfolio position from the backtest.
I tried to go over detailed documentation here:
https://www.quantconnect.com/lean/docsHowever this doc seems outdated and incomplete. I'd really appreciate any help/pointer on this.
Best,
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Derek Melchin
Hi Tarquinius Superbus,
To get the backtest results into the Research environment, we can use
api.ReadBacktest(projectID, backtestID)See the attached notebook for reference.
A list of all the backtest attributes that are returned from this call are available here. Note daily return and daily portfolio positions are not included. A workaround is to save them in the ObjectStore while backtesting, then load them into the Research environment.
Best,
Derek Melchin
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Tarquinius Superbus
Hi Derek,
Thanks for the explanation.
For anyone who wonders into this thread in the future, note that you can extract portfolio NAV with this code snippet. It extracts NAV value from the strategy equity chart.
# To extract portfolio NAV from backtest results backtest = api.ReadBacktest(projectID, backtestID) chartpoint_ls = backtest.Charts["Strategy Equity"].Series["Equity"].Values nav = [x.y for x in chartpoint_ls] date = [datetime.fromtimestamp(x.x) for x in chartpoint_ls] nav = pd.Series(nav,index=date)Best,
Tarquinius Superbus
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