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alpaca-trading-backtest

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By alpacahq/alpaca-skills (GitHub) · coding · 167 stars · scanned at commit 0e7c351

Execute deterministic, reproducible historical backtests from a start date, end date, and strategy concept using the Alpaca CLI plus agent-written workspace code. Use when the user wants to backtest a strategy, simulate historical trades, or return trades, diagnostics, and reproducibility artifacts.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

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Install

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if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'alpaca-trading-backtest' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'alpaca-trading-backtest' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named alpaca-trading-backtest already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '0e7c35163ae462730de1f4a0bfafceac82b7d59b' -- 'skills/trading-api/backtest' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/trading-api/backtest' ~/.agents/skills/'alpaca-trading-backtest' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'alpaca-trading-backtest' ~/.claude/skills/'alpaca-trading-backtest' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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