Exceptions

One of the design goals was to quit as early as possible and let the users have full transparency of what was happening with errors. With the goal to force oneself to have code that would break on exceptions and forced revisiting the affected part.

But the time has come and some exceptions may slowly get added to the platform.

Hierarchy

The base class for all exceptions is BacktraderError (which is a direct subclass of Exception)

Location

Inside the module errors which can be reached as in for example:

import backtrader as bt

class Strategy(bt.Strategy):

    def __init__(self):
        if something_goes_wrong():
            raise bt.errors.StrategySkipError

Directly from backtrader as in:

import backtrader as bt

class Strategy(bt.Strategy):

    def __init__(self):
        if something_goes_wrong():
            raise bt.StrategySkipError

Exceptions

`StrategySkipError`

Requests the platform to skip this strategy for backtesting. To be raised during the initialization (__init__) phase of the instance