Zack: A Simple Backtesting Engine in Zig

📈 Zack: A Simple Backtesting Engine in Zig 📉 Welcome to Zack! This project is a lightweight yet powerful backtesting engine for trading strategies, written entirely in Zig ⚡. It allows you to test your trading ideas against historical market data to see how they might have performed. 🤔 What is it? Zack simulates the process of trading based on a predefined strategy using historical OHLCV (Open, High, Low, Close, Volume) data. It processes data bar-by-bar, generates trading signals, simulates order execution, manages a virtual portfolio, and reports the performance. ✨ Why Zig? Zig offers several advantages for this kind of application: Performance: Zig compiles to fast, efficient machine code, crucial for processing potentially large datasets quickly. Zig compiles to fast, efficient machine code, crucial for processing potentially large datasets quickly. Memory Control: Manual memory management allows for fine-tuned optimization and avoids hidden overhead. Manual memory manageme ... Read full article.