backtrader

backtrader is a skill for Claude Code from agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills. It costs 25 tokens per session (2,535 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Python framework for event-driven backtesting, which tests trading strategies against historical market data one time bar at a time. It includes simulated order handling, positions, and analysis tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test complex trading strategies with market, limit, stop, stop-limit, bracket, OCO, and trailing-stop orders, multiple timeframes, and custom indicators.
Why use it?
Bar-by-bar simulation supports strategies whose next action depends on earlier fills, partial executions, order conditions, commissions, slippage, or margin.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the trading-skills plugin — 68 skills shipped together

not rated 354repo +12 8d ago A scan Socket: passSnyk: warnSkillSpector: pass 25 tokens original MIT

Good fit Use it to test complex trading strategies with market, limit, stop, stop-limit, bracket, OCO, and trailing-stop orders, multiple timeframes, and custom indicators.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills/backtrader
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills --skill backtrader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install trading-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 68 skills.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,535 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 21 Mar 2026
  • Snyk warn 21 Mar 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00025 $0.02535
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01267
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00507
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00253

Measured 11d ago against content hash e29655d92897, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backtrader scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/backtest_strategy.py, scripts/bracket_orders.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/backtrader/SKILL.md · 349 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 349 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backtrader

Backtrader is a Python event-driven backtesting framework that processes data bar-by-bar, simulating realistic execution with a built-in broker, order management, and position tracking. Unlike vectorized frameworks (vectorbt, pandas), backtrader walks through history one bar at a time, firing callbacks that let you implement complex order logic that depends on previous fills, partial executions, and conditional brackets.

Event-Driven vs Vectorized

Aspect Backtrader (event-driven) vectorbt (vectorized)
Execution model Bar-by-bar callbacks Whole-array operations
Speed Slower (Python loop) Fast (NumPy/Numba)
Order types Market, limit, stop, stop-limit, bracket, OCO Market only (native)
Realism Built-in broker with commission, slippage, margin Manual slippage modeling
Multi-timeframe Native resampledata Manual alignment
Best for Complex strategies, bracket orders, portfolio Fast parameter sweeps, simple signals

Use backtrader when you need:

  • Bracket orders (entry + stop loss + take profit as a unit)
  • Stop-limit or trailing stop orders
  • Order-dependent logic (scale in after first fill, cancel if not filled in N bars)
  • Multi-timeframe strategies (daily signals, hourly execution)
  • Realistic commission and slippage modeling

Use vectorbt when you need:

  • Fast parameter optimization over thousands of combinations
  • Simple long/short signals without complex order management
  • Quick prototyping and statistical analysis of results

Core Concepts

Backtrader has five core objects that interact through an event loop:

1. Cerebro (the engine)

The central orchestrator. You add strategies, data feeds, analyzers, and sizers to Cerebro, then call run().

import backtrader as bt

cerebro = bt.Cerebro()
cerebro.addstrategy(MyStrategy, fast_period=10, slow_period=30)
cerebro.adddata(data_feed)
cerebro.broker.setcash(100_000)
cerebro.broker.setcommission(commission=0.003)  # 0.3%
cerebro.addanalyzer(bt.analyzers.SharpeRatio, _name="sharpe")
cerebro.addanalyzer(bt.analyzers.DrawDown, _name="drawdown")
cerebro.run()

Read the full file on GitHub · 349 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 349 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A e29655d92897

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backtrader is a skill published in the GitHub repository agiprolabs/claude-trading-skills (354 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 2,535 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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