How to install use zipline with conda on Windows 10 as of 12/2019

ziplineSetup.md

How to install use zipline with conda on Windows 10 as of 12/2019

Downgrade conda

• conda config --set allow_conda_downgrades true
• conda install conda=4.6.11

Create new environment with python 3.5 installing necessary modules

• conda create -n quant python=3.5
• conda activate env_quant
• conda install nb_conda jupyter ipykernel tornado=4.5.3 pywin32 matplotlib autopep8 scikit-learn joblib -y -n quant
• pip install mpl-finance

Install and setup zipline

• conda install -c Quantopian zipline -y -n quant
• set QUANDL_API_KEY=YOURAPIKEY
• zipline ingest -b quandl
• zipline ingest -b quantopian-quandl

Fix JSONDecodeError due to missing IEXTrading API key see here

• Sign-up for an API key at https://iexcloud.io/
• Edit benchmark.py at \Anaconda3\pkgs\zipline-1.3.0-np114py35_0\Lib\site-packages\zipline\data\benchmarks.py
• Changing the r = requests.get( 'https://api.iextrading.com/1.0/stock/{}/chart/5y'.format(symbol) ) part to

  IIEX_TOKEN = 'APIKEY'
  r = requests.get(
      'https://cloud.iexapis.com/stable/stock/{}/chart/5y?token={}'.format(
          symbol, IEX_TOKEN)
  )