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 ##Development Quickstart
 Navigate to your mongodb installation and start your db server:
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 	./bin/mongodb 
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 Install the necessary python libraries:
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 	easy_install tornado pymongo
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 Create a development database with sample data, will create one qbt user:
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 	python qbt_data_bootstrap.py --user_email=... --password=...
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 To run the qbt against a local mongodb instance, navigate to the source dir and run
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 	python qbt_server.py --mongodb_dbname=qbt 
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 To see all the available options:
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 	python qbt_server.py --help
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 or
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 	python qbt_data_bootstrap.py --help
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 qbt uses tornado to accept synchronous requests for backtesting sessions.