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🚀 Quick-Start

Pick one engine below, copy the install + deploy command, and you'll have live signals printing in your terminal in under five minutes—no broker keys required.

⚠️ One engine per environment — VectorBT depends on NumPy 1.x while Zipline requires NumPy ≥2.x. Create a fresh virtualenv for each engine to avoid conflicts.

1 · Install & Run

Stock Trading (backtesting.py)

python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate  # optional but recommended
pip install "stratequeue[backtesting]"

# Run the SMA crossover demo (signals-only)
stratequeue deploy \
  --strategy examples/strategies/backtestingpy/sma.py \
  --symbol AAPL \
  --timeframe 1m

Crypto Trading (CCXT)

python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate
pip install "stratequeue[backtesting]" ccxt

# Run crypto SMA demo on Binance (signals-only)
stratequeue deploy \
  --strategy examples/strategies/backtesting.py/sma.py \
  --symbol ETHUSDC \
  --timeframe 5m \
  --broker ccxt.binance

VectorBT

python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate
pip install "stratequeue[vectorbt]"

# Run the vectorbt SMA crossover demo (signals-only)
stratequeue deploy \
  --strategy examples/strategies/vectorbt/sma.py \
  --symbol AAPL \
  --timeframe 1m

Backtrader

python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate
pip install "stratequeue[backtrader]"

# Run the Backtrader SMA demo (signals-only)
stratequeue deploy \
  --strategy examples/strategies/backtrader/sma.py \
  --symbol AAPL \
  --timeframe 1m

Zipline-Reloaded

python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate
pip install "stratequeue[zipline]"

# Run the Zipline SMA demo (signals-only)
stratequeue deploy \
  --strategy examples/strategies/zipline-reloaded/sma.py \
  --symbol AAPL \
  --timeframe 1m

bt

python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate
pip install "stratequeue[bt]"

# Run the bt SMA demo (signals-only)
stratequeue deploy \
  --strategy examples/strategies/bt/sma.py \
  --symbol AAPL \
  --timeframe 1m

You should see output similar to:

🚀 StrateQueue – Single Strategy
📈 Symbol: AAPL   Engine: {'{engine}'}   Granularity: 1m
💡 Trading: Signals-only (safe)
──────────────────────────────────────────────
14:30:15   BUY   185.42   sma crossover

If the feed scrolls with new bars, your install is good to go.

Quick Start Demo Live demo of the quick-start process in action

2 · What happened?

  1. Strategy file was auto-detected as {'{engine}'} and wrapped in the StrateQueue runtime.
  2. Demo data source delivered 1-minute candles for AAPL.
  3. Signals were printed instead of executed (safe default).

3 · Next Steps

Goal Command Docs
Paper trading add --paper + finish setup Setup Deploy
Live trading add --live + finish setup Setup Deploy
Visual dashboard stratequeue webui Dashboard
Multi-strategy portfolio comma-separate --strategy & --allocation Deploy
Check system status stratequeue status Setup
List available options stratequeue list brokers Deploy
Background daemon stratequeue daemon Dashboard

4 · Common Issues

Error Fix
ModuleNotFoundError for your engine Ensure you installed the correct pip install "stratequeue[engine]" extra
NumPy version conflict New virtualenv, choose one engine per env
No scrolling output yfinance rate limit, try adding the flag: --data-provider demo

💡 Need help? Run stratequeue deploy --help or open an issue on GitHub.

🙌 You're all set!

Edit the strategy file, re-run the command and iterate. When you're ready to trade real money, proceed to the Setup guide.

Setup