30.04.20
Sherry Yang
QC Top 5 Python Natural Language Processing Libraries
Natural language processing (NLP) techniques automate text-based analysis. There are many tasks NLP techniques can be applied to including search, translation, question answering, part-of-speech tagging, document parsing, and much more. QuantConnect supports several Python libraries for NLP tasks, the top five of which are Natural Language Toolkit(NLTK), Spacy, Gensim, Scikit-Learn, and Beautiful Soup. You can […]
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27.04.20 Sherry Yang
Into the Belly of the Beast with Laur Aliste
Recently, QuantConnect user Laur Aliste made an incredible chart visualization in his local implementation of LEAN. We talked to him about his story. (Editor’s note: The answers below have been edited slightly for clarity and length.) QuantConnect: Could you share a bit about yourself? Laur: I got involved seven years ago in technology and I’ve […]
22.04.20 Sherry Yang
Tutoring Initiative
In response to requests from our community, we will be offering 1-1 remote educational sessions for you, our QuantConnect community members, to help master the QuantConnect API and LEAN. In each session, a QC staff member will work with you on foundational skills for developing with QuantConnect’s API. We know that users come to QuantConnect […]
20.04.20 Sherry Yang
Alternative Data’s Rise in Fintech
Alternative data is not a new tool for alpha generation, but the availability of it is. For more than a decade, the sell-side and funds have used nontraditional data to augment their ability to capture alpha. In the last few years, the amount of alternative data collated in raw data sets has grown significantly and […]
20.04.20 Sherry Yang
Liquid ETF Competition Winners Spotlight
In November 2019, QuantConnect launched the Liquid ETF Competition. The challenge for participants was to look for alpha within a basket of 72 ETFs selected for their independence from the market, their variety of underlying assets, and other idiosyncratic variables. The competition was sponsored by an institutional client looking for alpha from this specific basket […]
08.04.20 Sherry Yang
A New Era For Desktop Algorithmic Trading
We’re excited to share Skylight, a new cross-platform desktop application for integration with QuantConnect. Skylight enables a new era in backtesting, combining the best capabilities of local development with the power and storage capacity of the cloud. Develop locally with your favorite coding tools, and then send your code for backtesting on a cluster of […]
07.04.20 Sherry Yang
Rebalance Ep 26: L1 Equities Data Deployed
Rebalance is a flash briefing of new features and updates for you, our QC community. In our 26th episode we’re happy to share: Quote equities data for backtesting has been deployed! This means your trades will be modeled with the true bid and ask spread back to 2007. With the new data, we’ve also adjusted our […]