17.05.12
Danielle Jett
Graphic Designer
Will you pay $101 a share for Facebook?
The Wall Street Journal published an online interactive asking readers to set their own price for Facebook stock. Regardless of what happens during Facebook’s IPO tomorrow, or how badly it crashes after, I’m curious to see how accurate the crowd’s predictions will be. I don’t know the sample size for these data, but since the May 3 […]
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16.05.12 Danielle Jett
Graphic Designer
Is working in corporate banking that bad?
Is working in corporate banking that bad? Check out this New York Magazine exit interview infographic. 56% wished that they had started a quirky business like a gourmet food truck, or maybe like QuantConnect.
06.05.12
Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Iterate Quickly
Working in a start-up is incredibly rewarding. You’re constantly creating something from nothing and being forced to concentrate. We did a critical review of the website and realized there were gapping holes so spent the long weekend pruning the bad code, and rebuilding it based on the Twitter Bootstrap. Iterate quickly is a great mantra, […]
18.04.12 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Core Systems
Sorry its been a while since our last update, but we’ve been busy! We recently returned from a trip to New York, and although it was only 7 days, each one was kicked off at 7am and ran until 2am. It is an amazing city and definitely the future home of QuantConnect. The first two days […]
09.04.12 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Instilling Values
Something apparent from our week in NYC is a need to build the values of an organization into its every action from day-0. Integrity is so important in the modern world. QuantConnect is seeking to shine light onto an unknown financial sector, automated algorithmic trading. We want to empower people to compete on a level […]
25.03.12 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
New York, New York
We have a video! After many weeks of hard work we’ve finished the first draft of our video! Have a look and let us know what you think – QC Weekly Feature – Dashboard As promised every week we’re moving the QuantConnect platform closer to reality; this week we worked many long hours to […]
16.03.12 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Algorithm Market Place
We’ve just published the next part of QuantConnect: the Algorithm Market Place It is a listing of algorithms available on QuantConnect and allows you to search and invest in a system. It is just a placeholder for now, but we’ve been getting plenty of requests to list algorithms from all over the world. So watch […]
06.03.12 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Discussions, Feedback
We’re pushing forward this week with the release of the Discussion Forum! You can find this at quantconnect.com/forum. We want to start QuantConnect with a way for you to meet and discuss financial matters. To kick off talks we’ve made two forums: Please tell us; what are you looking for as…. • a potential investor, investing with algorithms through QuantConnect? […]
27.02.12 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
The Coming Months
Welcome to the first of many weekly updates from the trenches at QuantConnect! I know its been a while, so to remind you: QuantConnect is an online marketplace for sophisticated investment systems, providing access to “algorithmic trading”. We give engineers a powerful stock-market simulator, data and collaboration tools they need to design investment systems and earn […]
14.02.12 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Coming Soon!
Modern finance is a battlefield, pitching some of the brightest in the world against each other in a war of the minds. Powerful, secretive firms employ cutting edge technology, armies of PhD graduates and genius generals to battle on the open markets with sophisticated trading algorithms. The victors turn their billions into more billions, growing ever […]