* codebase: Rid base64/hex to string common funcs * codebase: Rid local scope variable usage and other improvements * codebase: Refactor currency pair usage across multiple exchanges - Updated HitBTC tests to use the new currency pair format. - Modified Kraken futures types to use currency.Pair instead of string for Symbol. - Adjusted Kraken wrapper methods to handle currency pairs correctly. - Refined OKX tests and types to utilize currency.Pair for instrument IDs. - Enhanced Poloniex tests to consistently use predefined currency pairs. - Streamlined order and orderbook tests to replace string pairs with currency.NewBTCUSD(). - Improved Yobit tests to utilize a standardized currency pair format. - Updated validator wrapper to use currency pairs directly instead of string conversions. * codebase: Use types.Number where possible * refactor: update PayoutFee type to types.Number for consistency * Refactor: Remove crypto functions to use standard library and other minor changes - Removed custom crypto functions for SHA256, SHA512, and MD5 from the common/crypto package. - Replaced usages of removed functions with standard library implementations in various files including: - cmd/websocket_client/main.go - engine/apiserver.go - exchanges/kraken/kraken.go - exchanges/lbank/lbank.go - exchanges/okx/okx_business_websocket.go - exchanges/kucoin/kucoin_websocket.go - gctscript/vm/vm.go - Updated tests to reflect changes in the crypto functions. - Renamed several functions for clarity, particularly in the context of order book updates across multiple exchanges. * refactor: replace assert with require for consistency in test assertions * refactor: Improve Binance futures candlestick test, standardise orderbook update function names and improve test parallelism * refactor: Replace require.Len with require.Equal for better output in TestGetFuturesKlineData
GoCryptoTrader Backtester: Engine package
This engine package is part of the GoCryptoTrader codebase.
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Engine package overview
The engine package is the most important package of the GoCryptoTrader backtester. It is the engine which combines all elements. It is responsible for the following functionality
- Loading settings from a provided config file
- Retrieving data
- Loading the data into assessable chunks
- Analysing the data via the
handleEventfunction - Looping through all data
- Outputting results into a report
A flow of the application is as follows:

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