01.02.2021
Democratizing Finance Before It Was Cool: Opening Our Market For Alpha
Our mission at QuantConnect is to democratize quantitative finance and empower individuals: we do this by providing institutional-grade trading tools to all levels of quantitative traders. We have seen firsthand in the past few weeks — with r/WallStreetBets-inspired retail trading influx — that the retail trader is incredibly powerful, and we want to continue to […]
27.01.2021
Providing University College London Students With Real-Life Quantitative Trading Experience
At QuantConnect, we’re always interested in how our users are deploying our institutional-grade technology. 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. The University College London (UCL) Fintech Society is a student-run finance, technology, and entrepreneurship organization open […]
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20.01.2021
New Indicators, Speed and Performance Improvements – Release Notes v9993-v10335
We rounded out 2020 continuing our focus on speed, stability, and feature-completeness as we added more indicators and debugged some tricky option-universe selection edge cases. We sped up the regression test-suite and welcomed several new open-source contributors! Special thanks to Cnaccio, aarjaneiro, aricooperman,and mathpaquette. QuantConnect is an open-source platform. Join us as we break open […]
07.01.2021
Providing Boston College Students With Real-Life Quantitative Trading Experience
At QuantConnect, we’re always interested in how our users are deploying our institutional-grade technology. 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. At Boston College in Boston, Mass., Assistant Professor Tzuo Hann has recently begun teaching “Computational Investing,” […]
24.12.2020
Cloud Optimization and Futures Options Deployment – Release Notes v9766-v9972
Merry Christmas and a special thanks to our community contributors kazazes, jmerle, jKard1210, and IlshatGaripov. Months of intensive technology and engineering have gone into LEAN v9766-v9972. We’ve implemented cloud optimization; harness this powerful tool to test thousands of combinations for your strategy in record time! Identify hot spots in your charting to avoid costly overfitting, […]
21.12.2020
Cloud Optimization Now Available On QuantConnect
We’re proud to share after months of work and layers upon layers of engineering, we have officially deployed cloud optimization to parameter sensitivity test your strategies. The new systems allow you to test thousands of combinations of your strategy parameters to see areas of strength and weakness, to avoid strategies sensitive to narrowly defined parameters. […]
16.12.2020
Providing University At Buffalo Students With Real-Life Quantitative Trading Experience
At QuantConnect, we’re always interested in how our users are deploying our institutional-grade technology. 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. Dr. Zhen Liu is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Teaching (Computer Science and Engineering) and Adjunct […]
01.12.2020
Community Driven Tutoring: By the Community, For the Community
We are pleased to announce that tutoring for the community will be back by popular demand. While it will look slightly different than our previous program, we understand the need for skilled tutors to help the community learn LEAN and QuantConnect’s API. Previously QuantConnect staff members served as our tutors. This was a great way […]
25.11.2020
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 […]
24.11.2020
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) […]