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Updates README to distinguish between backtesting and trading.

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Zipline
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Zipline is a financial backtester for trading algorithms written in
Python. The system is fundamentally event-driven and a close
Zipline is a Pythonic algorithmic trading library.
The system is fundamentally event-driven and a close
approximation of how live-trading systems operate.
Currently, backtesting is well supported, but the intent is
to develop the library for both paper and live trading,
so that the same logic used for backtesting can be applied
to the market.
Zipline is currently used in production as the backtesting engine
powering Quantopian (https://www.quantopian.com) -- a free, community-centered