27.07.14
Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
‘Lean’ Backtesting Engine v2 Released
After 8 months development we’ve released a new backtesting engine powering QuantConnect called Lean. It is a complete rewrite of QuantConnect’s core technology that can take a generic time-series data source and run a backtest. We wanted QuantConnect to quickly and easily accept any data source and be able to trade on it as it […]
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26.07.14 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Using the QuantConnect Charting API
We’re pleased to announce the release of a new charting API which lets you create flexible, dynamic charts from your backtest. The charts stream to your browser as the backtest is running and can be configured in many different ways. It is a very simple API, allowing you to create custom charts with just 1 […]
08.07.14
Raul Pefaur
Harnessing the Twitter API for Sentiment Strategies
In this project we will be writing an application which downloads tweets from Twitter. We are continuing our journey leaning C#, as we started with our Yahoo Finance data downloader. Twitter has a REST API that allows us to search for tweets, users, timelines, or even post new messages. We will use an incredible C# Twitter Library […]
