24.12.20
Lexie
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, […]
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21.12.20 Lexie
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. […]
16.12.20 Lexie
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 […]
01.12.20 Lexie
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 […]
25.11.20
Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
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 […]
24.11.20 Lexie
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
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 […]
30.10.20 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Migrating to QuantConnect
As some may know, on October 29th, Quantopian users received notification the company would be terminating its free community platform on November 14th, leaving users with two weeks to download their code and find another home. We understand this closure has come suddenly, leaving many quants adrift. While we know not all will migrate to […]
26.10.20 Lexie
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
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 […]