diff --git a/catalyst/examples/buy_btc.py b/catalyst/examples/buy_btc.py
deleted file mode 100644
index e23b79b0..00000000
--- a/catalyst/examples/buy_btc.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-from catalyst.api import order, record, symbol
-
-
-def initialize(context):
-    context.asset = symbol('btc_usd')
-
-
-def handle_data(context, data):
-    order(context.asset, 1)
-    record(btc=data.current(context.asset, 'price'))
diff --git a/catalyst/examples/buy_btc_simple.py b/catalyst/examples/buy_btc_simple.py
index 78888715..ef64513b 100644
--- a/catalyst/examples/buy_btc_simple.py
+++ b/catalyst/examples/buy_btc_simple.py
@@ -1,3 +1,24 @@
+'''
+	This is a very simple example referenced in the beginner's tutorial:
+	https://enigmampc.github.io/catalyst/beginner-tutorial.html
+
+	Run this example, by executing the following from your terminal:
+	catalyst run -f buy_btc_simple.py -x bitfinex --start 2016-1-1 --end 2017-9-30 -o buy_btc_simple_out.pickle
+
+	If you want to run this code using another exchange, make sure that 
+	the asset is available on that exchange. For example, if you were to run 
+	it for exchange Poloniex, you would need to edit the following line:
+
+		context.asset = symbol('btc_usdt')     # note 'usdt' instead of 'usd'
+
+	and specify exchange poloniex as follows:
+
+	catalyst run -f buy_btc_simple.py -x poloniex --start 2016-1-1 --end 2017-9-30 -o buy_btc_simple_out.pickle
+
+	To see which assets are available on each exchange, visit:
+	https://www.enigma.co/catalyst/status
+'''
+
 from catalyst.api import order, record, symbol
 
 def initialize(context):
diff --git a/docs/source/beginner-tutorial.rst b/docs/source/beginner-tutorial.rst
index a54e4922..c4b516b2 100644
--- a/docs/source/beginner-tutorial.rst
+++ b/docs/source/beginner-tutorial.rst
@@ -429,6 +429,10 @@ and allows us to plot the price of bitcoin. For example, we could easily
 examine now how our portfolio value changed over time compared to the
 bitcoin price.
 
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    %load_ext catalyst
+
 .. code-block:: python
 
     %pylab inline
@@ -484,7 +488,8 @@ a function we use in the ``handle_data()`` section:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-    %%catalyst --start 2016-1-1 --end 2017-9-30 -x bitfinex -o dma.pickle
+    %%catalyst --start 2016-4-1 --end 2017-9-30 -x bitfinex
+
     from catalyst.api import order, record, symbol, order_target
 
     def initialize(context):
@@ -492,16 +497,16 @@ a function we use in the ``handle_data()`` section:
        context.asset = symbol('btc_usd')
 
     def handle_data(context, data):
-       # Skip first 300 days to get full windows
+       # Skip first 150 days to get full windows
        context.i += 1
-       if context.i < 300:
+       if context.i < 150:
            return
 
        # Compute averages
        # data.history() has to be called with the same params
        # from above and returns a pandas dataframe.
-       short_mavg = data.history(context.asset, 'price', bar_count=100, frequency="1d").mean()
-       long_mavg = data.history(context.asset, 'price', bar_count=300, frequency="1d").mean()
+       short_mavg = data.history(context.asset, 'price', bar_count=50, frequency="1d").mean()
+       long_mavg = data.history(context.asset, 'price', bar_count=150, frequency="1d").mean()
 
        # Trading logic
        if short_mavg > long_mavg:
@@ -518,7 +523,7 @@ a function we use in the ``handle_data()`` section:
 
     def analyze(context, perf):
        import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
-       fig = plt.figure()
+       fig = plt.figure(figsize=(12,12))
        ax1 = fig.add_subplot(211)
        perf.portfolio_value.plot(ax=ax1)
        ax1.set_ylabel('portfolio value in $')
diff --git a/docs/source/install.rst b/docs/source/install.rst
index d47590e9..3db00966 100644
--- a/docs/source/install.rst
+++ b/docs/source/install.rst
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ version:
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
+   $ pip install virtualenv
    $ virtualenv catalyst-venv
    $ source ./catalyst-venv/bin/activate
    $ pip install enigma-catalyst
@@ -132,6 +133,15 @@ it and install it before proceeding to the next step.
 For windows, the easiest and best supported way to install Catalyst is to use
 :ref:`Conda <conda>`.
 
+Troubleshooting Visual C++ Compiler Install
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+We run into two different errors when trying to install the the `Microsoft Visual C++ 
+Compiler for Python 2.7` mentioned above:
+
+-  
+
+
 Amazon Linux AMI
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/etc/python2.7-environment.yml b/etc/python2.7-environment.yml
index 34fabcbb..d59c36ae 100644
--- a/etc/python2.7-environment.yml
+++ b/etc/python2.7-environment.yml
@@ -1,30 +1,22 @@
 name: catalyst
 channels:
-- statiskit
 - defaults
 dependencies:
 - certifi=2016.2.28=py27_0
-- coverage=4.4.1=py27_0
-- nose=1.3.7=py27_1
-- openssl=1.0.2l=0
-- path.py=10.3.1=py27_0
+- mkl=2017.0.3
+- numpy=1.13.1=py27_0
+- openssl=1.0.2l
 - pip=9.0.1=py27_1
-- python=2.7.13=0
-- pyyaml=3.12=py27_0
-- readline=6.2=2
-- setuptools=36.4.0=py27_0
-- six=1.10.0=py27_0
-- sqlite=3.13.0=0
-- tk=8.5.18=0
+- python=2.7.13
+- scipy=0.19.1=np113py27_0
+- setuptools=36.4.0=py27_1
+- sqlite=3.13.0
+- tk=8.5.18
 - wheel=0.29.0=py27_0
-- yaml=0.1.6=0
-- zlib=1.2.11=0
-- libdev=1.0.0=py27_0
-- python-dev=1.0.0=py27_0
-- python-scons=3.0.0=py27_0
+- zlib=1.2.11
 - pip:
-  - alembic==0.9.5
-  - backports.shutil-get-terminal-size==1.0.0
+  - alembic==0.9.6
+  - backports.functools-lru-cache==1.4
   - bcolz==0.12.1
   - bottleneck==1.2.1
   - chardet==3.0.4
@@ -32,36 +24,22 @@ dependencies:
   - contextlib2==0.5.5
   - cycler==0.10.0
   - cyordereddict==1.0.0
-  - cython==0.26.1
+  - cython==0.27.1
   - decorator==4.1.2
   - empyrical==0.2.1
-  - enigma-catalyst>=0.2.dev2
-  - enum34==1.1.6
-  - functools32==3.2.3.post2
   - idna==2.6
   - intervaltree==2.1.0
-  - ipdb==0.10.3
-  - ipdbplugin==1.4.5
-  - ipython==5.5.0
-  - ipython-genutils==0.2.0
   - logbook==1.1.0
   - lru-dict==1.1.6
   - mako==1.0.7
   - markupsafe==1.0
-  - matplotlib==2.0.2
+  - matplotlib==2.1.0
   - multipledispatch==0.4.9
-  - networkx==1.11
+  - networkx==2.0
   - numexpr==2.6.4
-  - numpy==1.13.1
   - pandas==0.19.2
   - pandas-datareader==0.5.0
-  - pathlib2==2.3.0
   - patsy==0.4.1
-  - pexpect==4.2.1
-  - pickleshare==0.7.4
-  - prompt-toolkit==1.0.15
-  - ptyprocess==0.5.2
-  - pygments==2.2.0
   - pyparsing==2.2.0
   - python-dateutil==2.6.1
   - python-editor==1.0.3
@@ -69,16 +47,12 @@ dependencies:
   - requests==2.18.4
   - requests-file==1.4.2
   - requests-ftp==0.3.1
-  - scandir==1.5
-  - scipy==0.19.1
-  - scons==3.0.0a20170821
-  - simplegeneric==0.8.1
+  - six==1.11.0
   - sortedcontainers==1.5.7
   - sqlalchemy==1.1.14
   - statsmodels==0.8.0
   - subprocess32==3.2.7
   - tables==3.4.2
   - toolz==0.8.2
-  - traitlets==4.3.2
   - urllib3==1.22
-  - wcwidth==0.1.7
+  - enigma-catalyst>=0.3