03.06.13
Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
QuantConnect Semi-Finalist In Innotribe Challenge
New York, June 3rd 2013 – QuantConnect is pleased to announce that we have been selected as a semi-finalist of the Innotribe Startup Challenge, honouring the company as one of the most promising financial technology and financial services start-ups. On June 13, QuantConnect will compete against 14 other start-ups at Innotribe Challenge Showcase in New […]
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25.05.13 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
US Equities And FX Tick Data Ready!
After months of work, and lots of coffee we’re proud to announce for the first time ever, tick data, a coveted asset of the financial industry is available through QuantConnect. We have every single trade on 16,000 stocks going back to 1998, along with 11 major currency FX pairs since 2007. The IDE is faster […]
18.04.13 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
First New Data Set! Estimize Crowd Sentiment Data!
In our aim to provide you with the best quality, institutional level data we’re now working with Estimize.com to bring you crowd-sourced earnings estimate data. Each financial quarter companies publish their earnings per share (EPS) and revenue figures to investors. When a company performs worse than expected, often the share price can fall dramatically, and […]
04.04.13 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Intersection Between Quant and Technology
Deutsche Bank Mention Deutsche Bank had a few nice words to say about QuantConnect in their recent news letter: “Recently we came across an interesting company called QuantConnect that perfectly embodies the intersection between quant and technology. QuantConnect is a startup that is trying to “democratize” quant investing. Most of us, who have spent too many […]
20.03.13 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Startup Offers Quant Trading for Little Guys
Originally on Hedge Fund Alert, By James W. Prado Roberts. A new technology shop wants to bring quantitative investing to the masses. QuantConnect is rolling out a cloud-based service that gives aspiring quant managers the tools to design and execute trading strategies and back-test their programs with historical market data. The offering promises to remove a […]
19.03.13 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
QuantConnect Offers Access to $20M Trading Capital – The Sharpe-Ratio Shootout
QuantConnect is live! The world’s most powerful back-testing platform, offering you free tick-data, with a C# coding environment so you can hack the best strategies together in minutes instead of weeks. Its fast, lightning fast. We can simulate five years of tick-data in less than 90 seconds, putting us on par with major financial institutions. And best of […]
24.09.12 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Focus
Our vision has always been the democratization of finance technology, to lower the formidable barriers so retail investors can invest using algorithmic trading. This is an inspiring vision and has kept us working hard bootstrapping for over a year. However; we’re geeks, building amazing algorithm development tools, so other geeks can design powerful trading strategies. […]
17.09.12 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Disrupt and Finovate
The last week we covered San Francisco TechCrunch Disrupt conference and then Finovate in New York City. There was some awesome technology at both of these conferences and we met incredible people. Engineers, Investors and fellow Entrepreneurs browse the stands looking for fun new ideas and technology. We met about 300 people, and gave 300 pitches […]
27.08.12 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
We’re Building…
Its been a quiet few weeks on the blog as we’ve had our heads down researching, sketching and building the engineer’s portion of QuantConnect – the Algorithm Lab. We’re hacking together an IDE financial algorithm designer based on your feedback. The current design will support almost any language, and is completely flexible so you can build […]
22.06.12 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
San Francisco to New York
We’ve had a busy few weeks! After diligently preparing, Danielle and I boarded a plane to San Francisco and set out to explore the US. After a long 22 hour flight, with stop overs in El Salvador and Lima, we touched down in San Francisco at 3am on Monday 4th. We spent the next week in […]