The most popular part of trading:

Backtesting.

But most beginners get backtesting wrong.

How to get up and running with Backtrader.

Step by step:

Start with the imports.

Create a helper function to return the last day of the month.

Build your trading strategy.

Run it.

Analyze the results with QuantStats.

You can get all the step-by-step details for free in a recent newsletter issue.

• Get data

• Build a backtest

• Analyze the results

Follow along step-by-step here: