Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Shopping Around: Sales Events’ Impact on AMZN, BABA, and XRT
While 2020 has seen plenty of unexpected market-moving events, we’re in the midst of one that at least has reliable calendar dates: the holiday shopping season. With COVID-19 having both impacting consumer spending expectations to the downside and accelerated the adoption of e-commerce platforms as people avoid in-person shopping, attention on listed companies operating in […]
Lexie
Interactive Brokers Currency Improvements, New Notebook API Support, Options Backtesting Enhancements – Release Notes v9464-v9760
LEAN v9464-v9760 unlocks key live trading functionality for accounts with non-USD base currencies, to better serve our global clients. We’ve streamlined harnessing the QuantConnect API in the Jupyter Research environment to analyze backtests and projects with ease. We made improved options backtesting for better out-of-the-money assignment messaging. Features OptionChain and OptionContract improvements (Github | Docker) […]
Lexie
Providing University of Chicago Students With Real-Life Quantitative Trading Experience
At QuantConnect, we’re always interested in how our users are deploying our institutional-grade technology across a variety of scenarios. With Organizations, QuantConnect is more flexible and customizable than ever before, allowing you to scale up and down your resource use as your team grows. University of Chicago Masters of Computer Science students can apply their […]