17.07.19
Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Pioneering a Free Market for Alpha
The financial community espouses the benefits of an open, free market, yet when it comes to incentivizing alpha, the rewards are obfuscated and bonuses are often discretionary. Today, performance in quantitative finance is black and white — measured in hard numbers and deterministic. The pricing model must be better defined. Fast, open, and transparent markets […]
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11.06.19 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Meet Our QuantCommunity – Stefan Jacholke
Welcome to the second installment of our “Meet Our QuantCommunity” series. In the previous edition, we spoke with Cheng Peng, a software engineer who creates equity statistical arbitrage algorithms for our Alpha Streams marketplace. In this installment, learn about Stefan Jacholke, a QuantConnect community member with 13 public algorithms. Stefan, who lives in Switzerland but […]
08.05.19 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Meet Our QuantCommunity – Cheng Peng
QuantConnect has a diverse, skilled, global community of quants, computer scientists, engineers, students, and data scientists. We are proud to be able to gather so many great minds to work together on our platform and provide them with access to numerous traditional and alternative data sets to create the alpha-generating signals available in our Alpha […]
13.03.19 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Powered By LEAN: Ternary Intelligence
In the next edition of our Powered By LEAN blog series, we feature Pavel Paramonov, Ph.D., Chief Science and Technology Officer at computational finance company Ternary Intelligence. Pavel recently spoke with our CEO Jared Broad to help us learn more about his company and perspective on the market, how LEAN helps with backtesting and strategy […]
05.03.19 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
QuantConnect Users Can Now Trade on Bitfinex
We’re pleased to share you can now live-trade with Bitfinex from your QuantConnect account. This integration adds a second crypto brokerage to QuantConnect, giving the community more options for live trading! Since we launched crypto trading in 2017, we have seen a great deal of demand for Bitfinex from our international users who trade crypto […]
31.01.19 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Live Trading on QuantConnect Now Free for Students
Education has always been a core value for us at QuantConnect — with all of the intelligent and talented people in our quant community, there is great opportunity to learn from each other as both the platform and user base grow. Today, we’re excited to announce QuantConnect Live Trading is now free for students. All you need to do is simply register with your .edu email address, and you can start trading at no cost.
24.07.18 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Our New Quantpedia Strategy Library
When we launched our Algorithm Framework in May, it was an exciting update for our community to leverage “drag & drop” modules of code that can alleviate inefficiencies in algorithm development. In a parallel effort to provide quants with more strategy examples, we are pleased to announce our integration with Quantpedia and to showcase our […]
11.07.18 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Powered By LEAN: Abbington Investment Group
In the next edition of our Powered By LEAN blog series, we feature Charles (Chuck) Waite, Chief Technology Officer of boutique independent wealth management and investment management firm Abbington Investment Group. Chuck spent some time with our CEO Jared Broad to discuss his firm’s investing strategy, how QuantConnect simplifies their operations & much more! Broad: What’s […]
26.06.18 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
LEAN’s Tear Sheet – The LEAN Report Creator
We’re happy to share that we’ve created a new backtest tear sheet creation tool, which comes with LEAN. The LEAN Report Creator is generated from backtesting-result objects and allows you to quickly create polished, professional-grade reports for each backtest (see a full example report generated by LRC). Our hope is that you can use these […]
14.06.18 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Powered By LEAN: DropShot Capital
As an open-source community, we can stretch to the limits of where our members take us. That’s why we’re launching our newest blog series, Powered By LEAN, that tells the stories of the hedge funds that are using QuantConnect and running on LEAN, our proprietary trading engine. LEAN offers many benefits to funds, including it’s […]