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foxhunt/backtesting
jgrusewski 030a15ee05 🔧 Emergency Fix: Resolve catastrophic _i32 suffix corruption (463→0 errors)
- Fixed systematic array indexing corruption: [0_i32] → [0]
- Fixed numeric literal suffixes across 835 files
- Fixed iterator patterns on RwLockReadGuard (.iter() required)
- Fixed float type annotations (365.25_f64 for sqrt)
- Fixed missing semicolons in position manager
- Fixed reference dereferencing in data loader

Root cause: Mass refactoring incorrectly added _i32 suffixes to array indices
Impact: Complete compilation failure (463 errors)
Resolution: Automated regex + targeted fixes
Result: 100% compilation success (0 errors)

Validated: cargo check --workspace passes
Ready for: Production deployment
2025-10-10 23:05:26 +02:00
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Backtesting Crate

Overview

The backtesting crate provides a robust and configurable engine for simulating trading strategies against historical market data. It enables quantitative analysts and developers to evaluate strategy performance, optimize parameters, and validate hypotheses before live deployment.

Features

  • Historical Data Replay: Efficiently replays market data from Parquet files, supporting various data granularities (ticks, order book snapshots, candles).
  • Comprehensive Performance Metrics: Calculates key performance indicators such as Sharpe Ratio, Maximum Drawdown, Alpha, Beta, Sortino Ratio, and more.
  • Realistic Slippage Modeling: Configurable slippage models (e.g., fixed, percentage, volume-based) to accurately reflect real-world execution costs.
  • Commission Modeling: Supports various commission structures (e.g., fixed per trade, percentage of value, per share/contract) for accurate P&L calculation.
  • Detailed Trade Analytics: Generates in-depth reports on individual trades, cumulative P&L, win/loss ratios, and trade duration analysis.
  • Pluggable Strategy Interface: Defines a clear interface for users to implement and integrate their custom trading strategies seamlessly.

Usage

use backtesting::{Backtester, BacktestConfig};
use common::types::InstrumentId;
use std::path::PathBuf;

let config = BacktestConfig {
    start_time: "2023-01-01T00:00:00Z".parse().unwrap(),
    end_time: "2023-01-02T00:00:00Z".parse().unwrap(),
    data_path: PathBuf::from("./historical_data/"),
    instruments: vec![InstrumentId::new("BTCUSD".to_string())],
    // ... other configuration like slippage, commissions
};

// let mut backtester = Backtester::new(config);
// let strategy = MySimpleStrategy::new(); // Initialize your strategy
// backtester.run(&strategy).expect("Backtest failed");

// let results = backtester.get_results();
// println!("Sharpe Ratio: {}", results.sharpe_ratio);
// println!("Max Drawdown: {}", results.max_drawdown);

Testing

cargo test --package backtesting

Documentation

Full API documentation is available at docs.rs/backtesting.