Catalyst is a data-driven crypto investment platform. It supports both backtesting and live-trading in a number of different crypto-exchanges. Catalyst empowers users to share and curate data and build profitable, data-driven investment strategies.
Features¶
- Ease of use: Catalyst tries to get out of your way so that you can focus on algorithm development. See examples of trading strategies provided.
- Support for several of the top crypto-exchanges by trading volume: Bitfinex, Bittrex, and Poloniex.
- Secure: You and only you have access to each exchange API keys for your accounts.
- Input of historical pricing data of all crypto-assets by exchange, with daily and minute resolution. See Catalyst Market Coverage Overview.
- Backtesting and live-trading functionality, with a seamless transition between the two modes.
- Output of performance statistics are based on Pandas DataFrames to integrate nicely into the existing PyData eco-system.
- Statistic and machine learning libraries like matplotlib, scipy, statsmodels, and sklearn support development, analysis, and visualization of state-of-the-art trading systems.