diff --git a/scripts/run_algo.py b/scripts/run_algo.py
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+import argparse
+
+import os
+
+import sys
+sys.path.append('qexec')
+
+import pandas as pd
+
+import cProfile
+from line_profiler import LineProfiler
+import datetime
+
+from functools import partial
+
+from mem_util import get_memusage_mb
+
+
+def profile_qexec(algo_text, results_file_name, start_date, end_date,
+                  capital_base, granularity, profiler_type=None,
+                  names_to_profile=None,
+                  live_algo=False,
+                  session_start_date=None,
+                  inception_date=None,
+                  data_delay=None):
+    # Import inside profile function, so that modules that take a while
+    # to import, e.g. tradingcalendar, don't trigger when there are
+    # invalid parameters, which should be a quick fail.
+    # TODO: Fix load time of tradingcalendar.
+    from algo_profile import run_algo
+    from qexec.algo.validation import unittest
+
+    results, ok = unittest(algo_text, granularity)
+
+    if not ok:
+        for res in results:
+            if not res['passed']:
+                print res._data
+        sys.exit('Did not pass validation.')
+
+    algo_runner = partial(
+        run_algo,
+        algo_text,
+        start_date,
+        end_date,
+        capital_base,
+        granularity,
+        session_start=session_start_date,
+        inception_date=inception_date,
+        data_delay=data_delay,
+        live_algo=live_algo
+    )
+    if profiler_type == 'cProfile':
+        results_dir = os.path.join('results', 'cprofile')
+        if not os.path.exists(results_dir):
+            os.makedirs(results_dir)
+        results_file = os.path.join(results_dir, results_file_name)
+        cProfile.runctx('algo_runner()',
+                        globals(),
+                        locals(),
+                        results_file)
+        print ("Wrote results to: {0}".format(results_file))
+
+    elif profiler_type == 'line_profiler':
+        results_dir = os.path.join('results', 'line_profiler')
+        if not os.path.exists(results_dir):
+            os.makedirs(results_dir)
+        results_file = os.path.join(results_dir, results_file_name)
+        profiler = LineProfiler()
+        for name_to_profile in names_to_profile:
+            name_parts = name_to_profile.split('.')
+            obj = __import__(name_parts[0])
+            for name in name_parts[1:]:
+                obj = getattr(obj, name)
+            profiler.add_function(obj)
+        profiler.runctx('algo_runner()',
+                        globals(),
+                        locals())
+        with open(results_file, 'w') as f:
+            profiler.print_stats(stream=f)
+        print ("Wrote results to: {0}".format(results_file))
+
+    elif not profiler_type:
+        algo_runner()
+
+
+def create_parser():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument('--algofile', '-f', type=argparse.FileType('r'),
+                        required=True)
+    parser.add_argument('--data-frequency', default='minute',
+                        choices=('minute', 'daily'))
+    parser.add_argument('--start-date', default='2012-01-01')
+    parser.add_argument('--end-date', default='2012-12-31')
+    parser.add_argument('--start-epoch', type=int)
+    parser.add_argument('--end-epoch', type=int)
+    parser.add_argument('--capital-base', default='10e6')
+    parser.add_argument('--live-algo', action='store_true', default=False)
+    parser.add_argument('--session-start-date', default='2014-01-03')
+    parser.add_argument('--inception-date', default='2013-12-03')
+    parser.add_argument('--data-delay', type=int, default=15 * 60)
+    parser.add_argument('--is-inception', action='store_true', default=False)
+    parser.add_argument('--profiler-type', choices=('cProfile',
+                                                    'line_profiler')),
+    parser.add_argument(
+        '--name-to-profile',
+        action='append',
+        default=[
+            # Good proxy for overall performance/main gen
+            'zipline.gens.tradesimulation.AlgorithmSimulator.transform',
+            # Proxy for network time, will eventually have to change if
+            # we change data access style.
+            'pymongo.cursor.Cursor.next'
+        ])
+
+    return parser
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+
+    parser = create_parser()
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    start_date = pd.Timestamp(args.start_date, tz='UTC')
+    end_date = pd.Timestamp(args.end_date, tz='UTC')
+
+    if args.start_epoch:
+        start_date = pd.Timestamp(args.start_epoch, tz='UTC')
+    if args.end_epoch:
+        end_date = pd.Timestamp(args.end_epoch, tz='UTC')
+
+    algo_text = args.algofile.read()
+    # Remove the extension
+    algo_name_base = os.path.splitext(args.algofile.name)[0]
+    algo_name = os.path.basename(algo_name_base)
+
+    results_file_name = \
+        'qexec-prof-{algo_name}-{commitish}-{granularity}-{time}'.format(
+            algo_name=algo_name.replace('.', '_'),
+            commitish='local',
+            granularity=args.data_frequency,
+            time=str(datetime.datetime.now()).replace(' ', '-').
+            replace(':', '-'))
+
+    if args.live_algo:
+        session_start_date = pd.Timestamp(args.session_start_date, tz='UTC')
+        inception_date = pd.Timestamp(args.inception_date, tz='UTC')
+
+    else:
+        session_start_date = None
+        inception_date = None
+
+    profile_qexec(
+        algo_text,
+        results_file_name,
+        start_date,
+        end_date,
+        float(args.capital_base),
+        args.data_frequency,
+        args.profiler_type,
+        args.name_to_profile,
+        live_algo=args.live_algo,
+        session_start_date=session_start_date,
+        inception_date=inception_date,
+        data_delay=args.data_delay
+    )
+
+    import objgraph
+    print 'finished running algo, now doing memory inspection'
+    maxrss_in_mb = get_memusage_mb()
+    print "Max memory consumption={maxrss_in_mb}MB".format(
+        maxrss_in_mb=maxrss_in_mb)
+    print objgraph.show_growth(limit=20)
+    print objgraph.show_most_common_types(limit=35)