I ran a backtest on 100 crypto currencies and only 15 seemed to be available on blueshift currently. Is there any list i can refer on what is supported currently ? And also is there any plans of expanding the current list as it looks very narrow.
Hi, you can find the list of available cryptos here. These are with quote against USDT and INR.
On the issue of expanding universe, feel free to give us a shout at blueshift-support@quantinsti.com if have any suggestions. The issue with crypto is that there is no defined universe - new coins and flavours are launched pretty often. So the choice is covering the full universe (which is almost impossible) or track a liquidity based basket of leaders. Otherwise you may get significant survivorship bias in your backtest. We have picked a set of relatively liquid cryptos based on our initial research and we are happy to add more. However, any new addition must show sustained liquidity - i.e. not a recent launch and has considerable traded volume over a period of time. For e.g. dogecoin is not a candidate.