Blankly

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/blankly-finance/blankly/compare/v1.17.0-beta...v1.18.0-beta

Updates
* hotfix blankly logout by qmatias in https://github.com/blankly-finance/blankly/pull/153
* hotfix blankly deploy by qmatias in https://github.com/blankly-finance/blankly/pull/154
* v1.17.4-beta by EmersonDove in https://github.com/blankly-finance/blankly/pull/157

* add auto truncate option to settings.json by qmatias in https://github.com/blankly-finance/blankly/pull/155
* futures backtesting by qmatias in https://github.com/blankly-finance/blankly/pull/148
* add starter models by qmatias in https://github.com/blankly-finance/blankly/pull/163
* add take profit and stop loss orders to SPOT exchanges by qmatias in https://github.com/blankly-finance/blankly/pull/156
* make newtulipy even newer by qmatias in https://github.com/blankly-finance/blankly/pull/165
* make cli easier to run for users without pip scripts on PATH by qmatias in https://github.com/blankly-finance/blankly/pull/167
* fix keyless template in the CLI and add it as an example by qmatias in https://github.com/blankly-finance/blankly/pull/168
* spring cleaning by qmatias in https://github.com/blankly-finance/blankly/pull/169
* add parametrized testing for spot exchanges by qmatias in https://github.com/blankly-finance/blankly/pull/170
* add take-profit example by qmatias in https://github.com/blankly-finance/blankly/pull/172
* fix more bugs & continue deduplication efforts by qmatias in https://github.com/blankly-finance/blankly/pull/173

Updates

- Added full spot kucoin websockets
- Added full spot FTX websockets
- Added futures live trading
- Added full spot OKX integration
- Added FTX international support
- Added FTX sub account support
- Added new and improved CLI
- Added backtesting and exporting to the platform
- Added alpaca API v2 support
- Added arbitrage event
- Added scheduled event
- Added event driven backtesting
- Added tick event driven backtesting
- Added custom data backtesting
- Added new generic model class for incredibly flexible backtesting
- Fixes for Oanda & Binance
- Tons of other small fixes and stability improvements

Contributors:
mehta-avi
qmatias
jordibeen
jmoz
bfan1256
hawkinsjb1
EmersonDove

Updates
- Add valid FTX resolutions
- Format to using new db format in model creation workflow
- Add better Kucoin & ftx examples
- Add keyless exchanges for custom datasets during backtesting
- Rename signal to screener
- Add cron screener
- Add cron to deployment settings
- Quantstats integration from Aryan34
- Metrics fixes from qmatias
- Kraken & Kucoin development from mehta-avi
- Add order annotation for platform orders
- Remove use_sandbox from settings and make it entirely in keys.json

Updates
- Dramatically improve platform CLI
- Reporter headers update
- Add shorting to alpaca, 73 - experimental feature including simulated margin
- Upgrade tests to run as a matrix
- Slightly weakened tests to allow for a pandas windows bug
- Add feature request template
- Remove unnecessary dependencies
- Add order protection for backtest configurations
- Add strategy .start() protection for backtest configurations
- Fix binance websocket feeds
- Arguments can be passed to backtest metrics
- Add an option to enable/disable alpaca shorting
- Upgrade logging capabilities