Error while running buy_and_hold_backtest.py

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Closed RakeshPoluri closed 5 years ago

RakeshPoluri commented 5 years ago

I am trying to run python buy_and_hold_backtest.py but I am getting the following error:

File "buy_and_hold_backtest.py", line 7 < !DOCTYPE html > ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I have installed and followed all the relevant steps including creating the qstrader.yml file.

I am using Windows 10 and Anaconda with Python 3.7.

briancappello commented 5 years ago

Not sure what you did, but that error means you've got HTML in your Python. The file in master looks fine, so I suspect this is on your end?

RakeshPoluri commented 5 years ago

Not sure what you did, but that error means you've got HTML in your Python. The file in master looks fine, so I suspect this is on your end?

I downloaded the files again and this seems to have solved this particular issue, though it raised a new one. Thanks for your help!