07.08.19
Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Now Available on QuantConnect: Improved Crypto Data from CoinAPI.io
We are excited to share with the community that we’re now working with CoinAPI.io to bring comprehensive cryptocurrency data to our platform. Starting now, our users can access reliable, high-resolution data that will be updated at the end of each day, every day. The crypto markets have continued to mature, which increases the opportunities for […]
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01.08.19
Sherry Yang
Rebalance Ep 1: Boot Camp, Reports, & Data
Welcome to the first episode of QuantConnect’s Rebalance! In this first episode we’re happy to share: A new boot camp! The Buy and Hold with a Trailing Stop lesson shows you how to implement a trailing stop in QuantConnect. Learn how to create a Stop Loss to manage risk in our orders and plot the […]
11.06.19 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Meet Our QuantCommunity – Stefan Jacholke
Welcome to the second installment of our “Meet Our QuantCommunity” series. In the previous edition, we spoke with Cheng Peng, a software engineer who creates equity statistical arbitrage algorithms for our Alpha Streams marketplace. In this installment, learn about Stefan Jacholke, a QuantConnect community member with 13 public algorithms. Stefan, who lives in Switzerland but […]
28.05.19
Alex Otsu
IB Gateway Automation
Last week, we released IBAutomater, a tool that allows you to automate many actions while connecting to Interactive Brokers via the IB Gateway. It is best used with LEAN to fully manage your algorithm portfolio but can be plugged into your own trading system. We created it as a standalone, event-based, version-controlled package for handling […]
22.04.19 Alex Otsu
Algorithm Wizard 2.0
The Algorithm Lab is now more powerful than ever. We have added baked-in features to promote best practices in hypothesis design and enable more intuitive algorithm development. The layout changes, along with what they mean for your development process, are outlined below. “Create New Algorithm” The options to “Create Framework Algorithm” and “Create Classic Algorithm” […]
05.03.19 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
QuantConnect Users Can Now Trade on Bitfinex
We’re pleased to share you can now live-trade with Bitfinex from your QuantConnect account. This integration adds a second crypto brokerage to QuantConnect, giving the community more options for live trading! Since we launched crypto trading in 2017, we have seen a great deal of demand for Bitfinex from our international users who trade crypto […]
31.01.19 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Live Trading on QuantConnect Now Free for Students
Education has always been a core value for us at QuantConnect — with all of the intelligent and talented people in our quant community, there is great opportunity to learn from each other as both the platform and user base grow. Today, we’re excited to announce QuantConnect Live Trading is now free for students. All you need to do is simply register with your .edu email address, and you can start trading at no cost.
24.07.18 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Our New Quantpedia Strategy Library
When we launched our Algorithm Framework in May, it was an exciting update for our community to leverage “drag & drop” modules of code that can alleviate inefficiencies in algorithm development. In a parallel effort to provide quants with more strategy examples, we are pleased to announce our integration with Quantpedia and to showcase our […]
26.06.18 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
LEAN’s Tear Sheet – The LEAN Report Creator
We’re happy to share that we’ve created a new backtest tear sheet creation tool, which comes with LEAN. The LEAN Report Creator is generated from backtesting-result objects and allows you to quickly create polished, professional-grade reports for each backtest (see a full example report generated by LRC). Our hope is that you can use these […]
22.08.17 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Democratizing Finance, Empowering Individuals
Since we were founded in 2011, QuantConnect has strived to empower individuals. It has been built into our core motto “Democratizing Finance, Empowering Individuals”. We are motivated to provide powerful investment opportunities for investors and the best technology possible available for quants. It is a difficult challenge but one we push through every day. Some […]