What is EHorus?
eHorus is an open-source quantitative trading and algorithmic trading platform developed in Brazil. It provides traders, quants, and developers with tools to design, backtest, optimize, and automate trading strategies for stocks, futures, forex, and options.
Key features of eHorus include:
- Backtesting engine to test and evaluate trading strategy performance on historical data
- Automated trading to execute strategies in live markets via broker and exchange APIs
- Python strategy coding for developing trading algorithms and technical indicators
- Financial data analysis tools including visualizations and statistical analytics
- Portfolio optimization, risk management, and trade execution tools
- Free and open-source for maximum transparency and community development
eHorus runs on Windows, Linux and macOS. It supports connectivity to a range of brokers and data sources. The platform uses Python for strategy development, which allows quants and developers to easily build upon existing trading libraries and tools.
With its combination of open-source access, backtesting capabilities, automated executions and Python-based strategy coding, eHorus provides a full-featured quantitative trading platform for traders looking to evaluate, build and execute trading strategies programmatically.