Passive Investing Backtests

Development repo for finance fact checking (FinFacts?)

The goal is to create a parameterized model that can simulate certain (passive) investment strategies on historical data.

Virtual Env Setup

Note

"Python Virtual Environments: A Primer" by RealPython

Create venv with python3 -m venv venv, activate with source venv/bin/activate, deactivate with deactivate.

Install package in the venv with

python -m pip install <package-name>

Pin dependencies

python -m pip freeze > requirements.txt

Install dependencies in virtual environment

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt