Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
New Machine Learning Package: MlFinLab
Integration with Hudson & Thames MlFinLab via the QuantConnect Environment’s feature.
Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Living Our Mission 🚀
We’re happy to share that today we published the code for 15 brokerage integrations to our open-source platform, LEAN. One step toward the future we’re building. LEAN handles all of the data and brokerage infrastructure for you so you can focus on what matters most: creating brilliant strategies. Giving independent quant investors the tools needed to compete. In […]
Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Own a Part of QuantConnect
Today we’re launching the next step of our journey. We’re proud to be opening ownership of QuantConnect to our community. We want to align our investors and users to continue pioneering as the world’s leading cloud quantitative analytics platform. With more than 210,000 engineers, quants, traders, and scientists in the community we believe you are our best […]
Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Docs V2 Released
We’re proud to share our new documentation has been moved to a public beta. This represents a significant leap in the quantity and quality of the documentation for how to build your strategy. The documentation took roughly 1.5 man-years of work to write! It was the full time effort of Derek Melchin and part-time for […]
Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Plug and Play Alt Data
Today, we announced the launch of Datasets, and the end of data onboarding as you know it. QuantConnect Datasets is a true end-to-end integration that allows alternative vendor datasets to be spun up and applied effortlessly, enabling quants to harness a data feed with a single line of code. With Datasets, quants can now go […]
Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
LEAN CLI for Streamlining Cloud and Local Workflows
At QuantConnect, we are always looking for ways to improve quants’ experience across all aspects of our platform through timely updates, new features, and responsive quant-support. To the shared end of making quants lives easier with the best tools, we’ve released LEAN CLI for those quants using, or looking to use, LEAN, the standard-bearer for […]
Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Living Out Our Ideals: How We Continue to Put the Quant First
Over the course of the past year, QuantConnect welcomed significant growth. Our Quant Community grew by 45% in 2020 alone, and we opened our Alpha Streams marketplace to everyone. This, along with our recently launched Organizations layer, has allowed us to continue to address new users as well as helping current ones scale and grow […]
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 […]
Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Migrating to QuantConnect
As some may know, on October 29th, Quantopian users received notification the company would be terminating its free community platform on November 14th, leaving users with two weeks to download their code and find another home. We understand this closure has come suddenly, leaving many quants adrift. While we know not all will migrate to […]
Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
QuantConnect’s Quant League Winner’s Circle: Laurent Crouzet
We started an Alpha Streams Quant League competition with $1,000 prize pools in March. The challenge for quants is to create algorithms that perform well over a 5-year backtest period, perform well in out-of-sample trading, and reconcile well with their backtests. You can trade any asset class or strategy. As there are funds with many […]