08.05.20
Sherry Yang
Measuring Hope vs. Fear in the S&P500 News
As the world continues to deal with the effects of COVID-19, the market has been filled with news of every emotion. We measured two of these emotions — “hope” and “fear” — in news specifically about the S&P500 companies in early 2020. Powerfully, we can see news of hope battling it out with fear over […]
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30.04.20 Sherry Yang
QC Top 5 Python Natural Language Processing Libraries
Natural language processing (NLP) techniques automate text-based analysis. There are many tasks NLP techniques can be applied to including search, translation, question answering, part-of-speech tagging, document parsing, and much more. QuantConnect supports several Python libraries for NLP tasks, the top five of which are Natural Language Toolkit(NLTK), Spacy, Gensim, Scikit-Learn, and Beautiful Soup. You can […]
27.04.20 Sherry Yang
Into the Belly of the Beast with Laur Aliste
Recently, QuantConnect user Laur Aliste made an incredible chart visualization in his local implementation of LEAN. We talked to him about his story. (Editor’s note: The answers below have been edited slightly for clarity and length.) QuantConnect: Could you share a bit about yourself? Laur: I got involved seven years ago in technology and I’ve […]
22.04.20 Sherry Yang
Tutoring Initiative
In response to requests from our community, we will be offering 1-1 remote educational sessions for you, our QuantConnect community members, to help master the QuantConnect API and LEAN. In each session, a QC staff member will work with you on foundational skills for developing with QuantConnect’s API. We know that users come to QuantConnect […]
20.04.20 Sherry Yang
Liquid ETF Competition Winners Spotlight
In November 2019, QuantConnect launched the Liquid ETF Competition. The challenge for participants was to look for alpha within a basket of 72 ETFs selected for their independence from the market, their variety of underlying assets, and other idiosyncratic variables. The competition was sponsored by an institutional client looking for alpha from this specific basket […]
08.04.20 Sherry Yang
A New Era For Desktop Algorithmic Trading
We’re excited to share Skylight, a new cross-platform desktop application for integration with QuantConnect. Skylight enables a new era in backtesting, combining the best capabilities of local development with the power and storage capacity of the cloud. Develop locally with your favorite coding tools, and then send your code for backtesting on a cluster of […]
07.04.20 Sherry Yang
Rebalance Ep 26: L1 Equities Data Deployed
Rebalance is a flash briefing of new features and updates for you, our QC community. In our 26th episode we’re happy to share: Quote equities data for backtesting has been deployed! This means your trades will be modeled with the true bid and ask spread back to 2007. With the new data, we’ve also adjusted our […]
28.02.20 Sherry Yang
Rebalance Ep 25: Alpha Streams Free Trial
Rebalance is a flash briefing of new features and updates for you, our QC community. In our 25th episode we’re happy to share: A free Alpha Streams trial period! Now you have the ability to set a free trial period for your live Alpha Streams. Setting an algorithm trial period helps to increase the adoption of […]
21.02.20 Sherry Yang
Get started with QuantConnect’s Boot Camp
QuantConnect’s Boot Camp is a coding lab designed to teach you the tools for quantitative trading. In Boot Camp, you can improve your skills in finance, statistics, and software development and learn the QuantConnect API in easily digestible portions. Using the same API, you can move from learning in the labs to testing out your […]
13.02.20 Sherry Yang
Rebalance Ep 24: Boot Camp Udemy Course
Rebalance is a flash briefing of new features and updates for you, our QC community. In our 24th episode we’re happy to share: New learning content! All boot camp tutorials are now available as a Udemy course along with brand new quiz questions for each lesson that help solidify concepts. Updates for futures margin models! Future […]