📈 Backtest Visualization Tool — bt-visualizer

A lightweight, interactive charting tool to visualize your backtest results inside JupyterLab, with trade annotations, zoom support, tooltips, and more.

bt-visualizer.mp4

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✨ Features

• 🕵️ Hover to see trade information
• 🖱️ Click to zoom into a specific trade
• 🔍 Zoom / pan support
• 🖱️ Double click to zoom out
• 🔄 Reset chart and load new backtest results dynamically

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📦 Installation

You can install the Python package via pip:

pip install bt-visualizer

Make sure you have JupyterLab installed as well.

🛠️ Usage Example

Inside your JupyterLab notebook:

from bt_visualizer import show_bt_visualization

# Ensure the following files are present in the project directory
show_bt_visualization(
    equity="equity_curve.csv",
    stats="stats.csv",
    ohlc="ohlc.csv",
    trades="trades.csv"
)

📂 Input Data Format

The visualization expects CSV input following the structure from backtesting.py outputs.

You can find sample input files here to see the expected format.

Files expected:

• equity_curve.csv

• stats.csv

• ohlc.csv

• trades.csv

🌐 Online Demo

You can also try the standalone version of the app, deployed here:

👉 Deployed App

💻 Developer Setup (Optional)

If you want to run or modify the TypeScript frontend locally:

git clone https://github.com/Finance-Insight-Lab/bt-visualizer.git
cd bt-visualizer

npm install
npm run dev

This will start the development server.

📝 License

MIT License.

Created by Ali Gheshlaghi.