08.02.21
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 […]
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24.11.20
Lexie Robinson
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) […]
20.11.20 Lexie Robinson
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 […]
26.10.20 Lexie Robinson
Providing University of Washington 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. Since 2016, Tim Leung has served as the Director of the […]
15.10.20 Lexie Robinson
Recognizing Community Excellence
Have you ever seen a Forum post that you found really insightful? One that makes you say, “I never thought of that!”? We definitely have, and with the QuantConnect community growing stronger than ever, we wanted to give members a way to recognize each other’s posts for the quality insights they provide. So we’re introducing […]
08.10.20 Lexie Robinson
Providing Queen’s University 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 diverse 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. Ali Masoumnia attends Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and is […]
05.10.20 Lexie Robinson
Autocomplete Python Stubs CI, Binance Exchange Integration, LEAN Speed Improvement – LEAN Release Notes v9194-v9449
In the last 2 weeks the QuantConnect team has been focused on stability and bug fixes. Diving deep into some of the long lingering issues and publishing fixes for the along with additional regression tests to lock in that stability. We also surpassed 10,000 unit tests giving the platform a rock solid foundation for expansion! […]
23.09.20 Lexie Robinson
Providing National University of Singapore 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 diverse 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. The National University of Singapore FinTech Lab is a program […]
01.09.20 Lexie Robinson
Python Auto-complete, and with Integrated Docker-Local IDE Support with VSCode, PyCharm and Visual Studio. Release notes v9842-v9185
In this release of updates, we have made substantial changes to improve our local development experience through deep integration of the LEAN Docker containers, along with publishing a research docker container for running your LEAN Research Notebooks locally. These docker containers are completely integrated into VSCode, PyCharm, and Visual Studio allowing you to run backtests […]
07.08.20 Lexie Robinson
Github Tagging Integration, Docker CI Setup, Upgraded Futures Margins, New Algorithms and Indicators, Update to .net 4.6.2 – LEAN Release Notes v8406-v8943
This release of updates to LEAN is among one of the biggest yet. With this update, we have been working hard to upgrade your user experience. We upgraded futures margins to improve futures backtesting modelling and behavior, and updated to a newer version of .net (4.6.2). Along with this, we have added LEAN docker files […]