29.03.17
Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Scheduled Events
Scheduled events allow you to trigger code blocks for execution at specific times according to rules you set. This feature helps coordinate your algorithm activities and perform analysis at regular intervals; while letting the trading engine take care of market holidays. The scheduling is set with two rules: the DateRules and TimeRules classes. The schedule […]
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24.03.17 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Collaborating in QuantConnect
Collaborating is a powerful feature of QuantConnect which allows up to 10 team members to work on a project at the same time. This can be useful when a team of specialists collaborates to build a great strategy. The project creator holds the master copy of the project and can add team members and control […]
22.03.17 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Introducing The Co-Pilot: Your Coding Companion
We’re happy to announce the release of the Co-Pilot (C# only); a rich automated documentation generator built to give you relevant hints while you’re building your strategy. With deep API’s it is impossible to memorize all the methods available; and time consuming to constantly search the documentation. As a coding companion, the co-pilot can inspect […]
31.01.17 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Options and Futures Trading on QuantConnect
We are very excited to announce the beta launch of options and futures trading on QuantConnect! Through the open-source platform LEAN, algorithmic trading has never been so accessible to investors. The new asset classes tie into our existing offering of Equities, FOREX and CFD products bringing us to a total of five asset classes. We […]
13.06.16 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Free Live Trading with FXCM
We’re excited to officially announce the integration of QuantConnect with FXCM Brokerage. This integration allows QuantConnect to offer free live trading to FXCM clients, giving tens of thousands of traders access to powerful algorithmic trading technology entirely for free. Free Live Trading Combining the our powerful open source algorithmic trading platform LEAN with the experience […]
20.11.15 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Our Answer to NYSE Eliminating Stop Orders
From February 26th investors will no longer be able to use Stop or Good Till Cancelled order types on the NYSE, according to a recent press release from Reuters. Typically Stop Market orders are used to place a market order when the stock exceeds a trigger price. On August 24th, 2015 many investors had their […]
11.06.15 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Thank you for supporting $1 trading
Were incredibly grateful to have the loyal support and attention of so many highly intelligent and passionate users. Every day we met incredible new people from all over the world, designing sophisticated strategies and it humbles us. Thank you for making QuantConnect awesome!
We have been blown away by the response in the last few weeks.Since launching the $1 Per Trade offer weve seen a 300% increase in all our user engagement signals: traffic, coding and backtesting.
Thank you for your trust and time, wewillcontinue working day and night to make QuantConnect better and make your strategy a success!
07.06.15 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
The Future of Quant Trading
QuantConnect believes algorithmic, quantitative trading will be the primary investment vehicle of the future, and we plan to be the open source, community driven vehicle which makes this future a reality.
We’re often asked what the differences are between QuantConnect and Quantopian and so we decided to address this question here transparently in a blog. We believe QuantConnect is the only company with the vision and technical ability to execute on the quantitative trading future!
27.05.15 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
$1 Per Trade, It’s a Quant Revolution
We’re proud to announce live trading with Tradier Brokerage is now public! In a special offer to QuantConnect users, Tradier Brokerage is offering a limited release of 100 accounts with a flat fee of $1 per trade* with the promo code Quant1. Fees this low on a retail-accessible platform are unparalleled. Robust Modern API In […]
14.05.15 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Live Trading with Interactive Brokers
We’re proud to announce the release of automated trading with QuantConnect and Interactive Brokers. Our technology breaks down all the barriers to deploying your own automated live trading strategy and allows you to focus on creating alpha.