30.01.20
Sherry Yang
Rebalance Ep 23: Alpha Sentiment
Rebalance is a weekly flash briefing of new features and updates for you, our QC community. In our 23rd episode we’re happy to share: A new feature was added to the FutureMarginModel to provide access to margin requirements that change with time. The feature exposes the current margin requirements that can be used to compute the […]
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23.01.20
Alex Otsu
Alpha Five Winners Announced
We are excited to announce the winners of our very first competition! View the full list of winners from Alpha Five here. Alpha Five gave quants the opportunity to submit their alphas for one of the following five universes pre-defined by the sponsoring fund: Energy, Precious Metals, Technology, US Treasuries, or Volatility ETFs. Quants submitted […]
22.01.20 Sherry Yang
Rebalance Ep 22: Code Along Tutorial Videos
Rebalance is a weekly flash briefing of new features and updates for you, our QC community. In our 22nd episode we’re happy to share: The winners of the Alpha Five competition were selected and announced! Over a hundred developers from 21 countries participated for more than $27,000 in cash prizes. Read about the competition process in […]
16.01.20 Sherry Yang
Rebalance Ep 21: Data Feed Work Scheduling
Rebalance is a weekly flash briefing of new features and updates for you, our QC community. In our 21st episode we’re happy to share: A new data feed work scheduling system! The implementation prioritizes the most recent work items by their size. CPU and RAM usage was reduced, leading to an improvement in backtesting speeds and […]
14.01.20
Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Increased Research Licensing Opportunities
We are now offering the option to automatically make backtest meta-data available to Alpha Streams clients as a way to get your work more attention and early interest.
09.01.20 Sherry Yang
Rebalance Ep 20: Quotes & Alpaca Brokerage
Rebalance is a weekly flash briefing of new features and updates for you, our QC community. In our 20th episode we’re happy to share: Equity Quote Data Coming Soon! Our engineering team is working hard on adding equity quote data to the platform, allowing us to better model the spread of trades. This will be paired […]
23.12.19 Sherry Yang
Rebalance Ep 19: 2019 Year in Review
Rebalance is a weekly flash briefing of new features and updates for you, our QC community. In our special year-end episode we’ll be counting down our top 10 highlights: This year we’ve launched 10 new boot camps with topics covering the algorithm framework, pairs trading, parameter reduction, and overfitting. Try out one of the lessons here. […]
19.12.19 Sherry Yang
Rebalance Ep 18: Liquid Value Stocks
Rebalance is a weekly flash briefing of new features and updates for you, our QC community. In our 18th episode we’re happy to share: More time to submit competition alphas! We are extending our Liquid ETF Competition until January 20th as the new PSR filter criteria is proving tough to crack. You can use the liquid […]
09.12.19 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
New Sources for Alpha: A Different Way to Do Data
At QuantConnect, our goal is to provide you with the tools and data that will help you create high-performing algorithmic trading strategies. And with LEAN, our open-source trading engine, our community can conduct a robust research process and solely focus on what makes them unique: their alpha. With that in mind, we are excited to […]
04.12.19 Sherry Yang
Rebalance Ep 17: Search, Shortcuts, & Speed
Rebalance is a weekly flash briefing of new features and updates for you, our QC community. In our 17th episode we’re happy to share: A powerful new search system! The new search uses a smart service that handles misspellings and synonyms so you get better results when searching the documentation. You can find the search bar […]