Backtesting Cloud

Queue a governed historical strategy backtest and poll the durable compute job for results.

Version: v2

Stability: stable

Sandbox: Available

Production: Entitlement required

Target latency: ≤ 250 ms

POST/api/v2/quant/compute/backtests

Backtests are hypothetical research calculations and never submit orders or execute trades.

Required scope: quant:compute:run

Try it in the FinanceGPT sandbox

The playground uses deterministic isolated sandbox fixtures. It never queries production workspace data and does not require you to paste an API secret into the browser.

Example response

{
    "data": {
        "job_uid": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000021",
        "job_type": "backtest",
        "status": "queued"
    }
}

Code examples

curl

curl -X POST \
  https://equitygpt.app/api/v2/quant/compute/backtests \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FINANCEGPT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"input":{"strategy":"moving_average_crossover","prices":[100,101,102,99,103,106,108,111,110,114],"short_window":3,"long_window":5,"initial_capital":100000,"transaction_cost_bps":5}}'

python

import os, requests

url = "https://equitygpt.app/api/v2/quant/compute/backtests"
headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['FINANCEGPT_API_KEY']}"}
payload = {
    "input": {
        "strategy": "moving_average_crossover",
        "prices": [
            100,
            101,
            102,
            99,
            103,
            106,
            108,
            111,
            110,
            114
        ],
        "short_window": 3,
        "long_window": 5,
        "initial_capital": 100000,
        "transaction_cost_bps": 5
    }
}
response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, json=payload)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json())

javascript

const response = await fetch('https://equitygpt.app/api/v2/quant/compute/backtests', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.FINANCEGPT_API_KEY}`, 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
  body: JSON.stringify({"input":{"strategy":"moving_average_crossover","prices":[100,101,102,99,103,106,108,111,110,114],"short_window":3,"long_window":5,"initial_capital":100000,"transaction_cost_bps":5}})
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`FinanceGPT ${response.status}`);
console.log(await response.json());

php

<?php
$ch = curl_init('https://equitygpt.app/api/v2/quant/compute/backtests');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST', CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['Authorization: Bearer '.getenv('FINANCEGPT_API_KEY'), 'Content-Type: application/json'], CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => '{\"input\":{\"strategy\":\"moving_average_crossover\",\"prices\":[100,101,102,99,103,106,108,111,110,114],\"short_window\":3,\"long_window\":5,\"initial_capital\":100000,\"transaction_cost_bps\":5}}']);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE) >= 400) throw new RuntimeException($response);
echo $response;

Versions & changelog

v2 published

M21 publication of this governed FinanceGPT API operation.

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