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Jared Broad

Founder & CEO

The Importance of Benchmarking

There are two different techniques for measuring your strategy performance; relative and absolute performance. Before you design your strategy its important to define your metrics for success. As you iterate through strategy ideas this will help you know where you need to improve. An absolute return strategy aims to make a consistent steady return independent […]

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    Jared Broad

    Founder & CEO

    Three Common Implementation Mistakes

    In our work at QuantConnect we have helped with thousands of budding quants over the years. Our algorithm development terminal is a powerful backtesting platform that allows members to design strategies on 15 years of past equities data. We see several very common mistakes in even the most basic strategies. For our latest free video tutorial – […]