GoCryptoTrader Backtester: Backtest package

This backtest package is part of the GoCryptoTrader codebase.

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Backtest package overview

The backtest package is the most important package of the GoCryptoTrader backtester. It is the engine which combines all elements. It is responsible for the following functionality

• Loading settings from a provided config file
• Retrieving data
• Loading the data into assessable chunks
• Analysing the data via the handleEvent function
• Looping through all data
• Outputting results into a report

A flow of the application is as follows:

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Contribution

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• Code must adhere to the official Go formatting guidelines (i.e. uses gofmt).
• Code must be documented adhering to the official Go commentary guidelines.
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• Pull requests need to be based on and opened against the master branch.

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