February 6th, 2013, 3:21 pm
I'm really interested in the back-testing aspect. I don't see the need to reinvent the wheel over and over. Given that most reasonable APIs require some form of adapters between badly designed Java classes and Python, I would rather spend my time there and be happy using other software for the algo development.That's not to say it shouldn't be thoroughly tested, however! But, the usual benefits of open source apply - over a long enough period, with a large enough active community, the bugs will be ironed out. I couldn't possibly hope to achieve the same level of testing with my own software, for instance.