feat: added loading bars centrally cuz file wise approach resulted in…

[Satvik-Singh192]

… pytest failing a lot

✨ Add tqdm-Based Progress Bars for Long-Running Operations

Closes #32

📝 Description

This PR introduces tqdm-based progress bars to improve user experience during long-running operations such as:

• Synthetic data generation
• Factor computation
• Backtest execution

Previously, these steps ran silently, making it difficult for users to estimate how long a process would take. This PR resolves that by adding lightweight progress indicators without altering existing workflows.

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✅ Changes Made

1. Synthetic Data Generation

• Added a tqdm progress bar that displays generation progress for each symbol.

2. Factor Computation

• Added tqdm progress bars for factor-wise averaging operations.

3. Backtest Execution

• Wrapped the internal backtest loop with tqdm to visualize iteration progress.

4. Minimal & Non-Intrusive Changes

• No refactoring or redesign of core functionality.
• Only small patches added where needed to integrate progress bars cleanly.

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[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This PR attempts to add progress bars using tqdm to various operations in the CLI, but introduces multiple critical bugs that break core functionality. The changes include adding tqdm import, modifying data generation to use a loop, attempting to add progress bars to factor computation, and monkey-patching the VectorizedBacktest.run method.

Key changes attempted:

• Addition of tqdm progress bars to data generation, factor computation, and backtesting
• Modified data generation to generate symbols one at a time instead of in batch
• Monkey-patched VectorizedBacktest.run method to show progress during backtesting

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 1 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 6 comments.

File	Description
src/quant_research_starter/cli.py	Adds tqdm import and attempts to integrate progress bars throughout CLI commands, but introduces multiple bugs including broken monkey-patching, incorrect tqdm usage, and performance regressions
.gitignore	Adds myenv/ to ignore virtual environment directory

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[ayushkrtiwari]

@Satvik-Singh192 please look into copilot's review and change wherever necessary

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Pull Request Overview

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