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backtesting

🔎 📈 🐍 💰 Backtest trading strategies in Python.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

backtesting has 193K monthly downloads and 9K GitHub stars. Version 0.6.5 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2025.

It is minimally maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Jul 2025.

It is built on top of bokeh, numpy and pandas. It is used by 9 tracked packages, including quanttraderlib, stockula and pyttrading.

GitHub topics include trading, trading-strategies and trading-algorithms.

Downloads
Day
5.8K
Week
35.6K
Month
192.5K
Stars
8.6K
Forks
1.5K
Issues
58
Version
0.6.5

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
85
Adoption
52
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
199 days ago
Monthly downloads
192,539
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
• Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
192,539
Stars
8,640
Stars per 1k downloads
44.87
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
• Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
5,086
Month daily avg
6,418
Momentum
-20.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
AGPL-3.0
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
• Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
343 days ago
Total releases
6
Releases/year
4.2
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
41
Monthly downloads
192,539
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
85
 
Issue Burden
6.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
54.6
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
2.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
143d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 3.5K
Windows 442
macOS 187

Python Versions

3.12
40.9% 1.7K
3.11
25.3% 1.0K
3.14
14.5% 586
3.13
13.9% 563
3.10
5.3% 216

Top Countries

1. US US
3.3K
2. IN IN
156
3. JP JP
92
4. SG SG
58
5. GB GB
55
6. NL NL
54
7. TW TW
47
8. CN CN
46
9. ID ID
41
10. DE DE
38

Dependencies

3
13 optional dependencies

Used By

9

Package Information

License
AGPL-3.0
First Release
February 4, 2025
Last Release
11 months ago
Last Commit
6 months ago
Latest Version
0.6.5
Total Releases
6
Contributors
41
Open PRs
21
Archived
No
Author
Zach Lûster
Wheels
py3
Keywords
algo algorithmic ashi backtest backtesting bitcoin bokeh bonds candle candlestick cboe chart cme commodities crash crypto currency doji drawdown equity etf ethereum exchange finance financial forecast forex fund futures fx fxpro gold
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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