What is the difference between the Blueshift platform and IBridgePy?
Hi Soumaneel,
To put it simply, IBridgePy is an API package that acts as the connection between your strategy code, and the brokers trading application - such as Interactive Brokers, etc. It is often used when following a desktop-based integration, wherein you set up and run the quant environment on your local system.
On the other hand, Blueshift is an entirely cloud-based platform, that can be used for investment research, backtesting and algorithmic trading. To use Blueshift, you don't need to download or install anything on your local system.
To learn more about desktop-based integration or cloud-based integration, you can check out the videos that have been linked.
I hope this helped!