Avoid paying twice
Keep your existing provider plan and entitlements. Backnest does not resell the data.
Bring Your Own Key
Bring your Twelve Data contract directly into your backtest.
Use your own Twelve Data API key to fetch OHLCV into a private dataset. No bundled-data markup and no sharing between users.
Available on Backnest Trial. Twelve Data plans and API charges are separate.
Why BYOK
No sharing between users
Credentials and imported datasets are scoped to the authenticated user, with no redistribution feature.
Move from data to review
Connect import to reproducible backtests, failure analysis by order/position ticket, and saved experiments.
Three-step workflow
1
Save your own API key
The key is encrypted at rest and never returned in plaintext through the UI or API.
2
Choose symbol, interval, and rows
Fetch time series available under your provider plan for stocks, ETFs, FX, crypto, commodities, and more.
3
Review in the existing dataset workflow
Store data in the same private dataset workflow used by CSV uploads, ready for indicators and backtesting.
How keys and Python code are handled
Encryption and logs
Keys are encrypted at rest, never redisplayed in plaintext, and never written to application logs. They are decrypted only for requests to Twelve Data.
User-controlled deletion
Remove the stored credential at any time from Market Data settings.
Strategy code stays local
Strategy code runs in your local Python process through hawk-bt; BYOK only adds the data-import path.
Current scope
| Area | Included | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Twelve Data | Coverage depends on the user's provider plan |
| Data | Historical OHLCV | Volume only when supplied for the instrument |
| Indicators | SMA / EMA / MACD / ADX / RSI | Calculated locally in Backnest |
| Privacy | Encrypted key and user-scoped storage | No sharing between users |
Explicit limits: Historical time series only in the first release. Live streaming, order-book depth, options chains, and fundamentals are not supported. Requests consume provider credits and rate limits; use and storage remain subject to your provider agreement. Twelve Data API docs →
How it differs
QuantConnect Local Platform, vectorbt, and NautilusTrader are broader, more mature alternatives. Backnest deliberately focuses on shortening the path from a user-owned data key to visual failure analysis while Python strategy code stays local.
Start with the data access you already own
Available on every plan. Validate the basic workflow on Trial, or ask about the Founding Customer Pilot for hands-on migration. No trading-performance outcome is promised.
Start BYOK on Trial