08.04.2020
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 […]
07.04.2020
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 […]
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02.03.2020
From Research To Production Tutorials
Research to Production is a series of blog post tutorials that make use of QuantConnect’s deep integration with Jupyter Lab to give you a powerful new tool for your alpha research. With this series, you can see how to quickly take your ideas from the research notebook and implement them in an algorithm. You can […]
28.02.2020
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 […]
21.02.2020
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 […]
13.02.2020
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 […]
30.01.2020
Rebalance Ep 23: Alpha Sentiment
Rebalance is a weekly flash briefing of new features and updates for you, our QC community. In our 23rd episode we’re happy to share: A new feature was added to the FutureMarginModel to provide access to margin requirements that change with time. The feature exposes the current margin requirements that can be used to compute the […]
23.01.2020
Alpha Five Winners Announced
We are excited to announce the winners of our very first competition! View the full list of winners from Alpha Five here. Alpha Five gave quants the opportunity to submit their alphas for one of the following five universes pre-defined by the sponsoring fund: Energy, Precious Metals, Technology, US Treasuries, or Volatility ETFs. Quants submitted […]
22.01.2020
Rebalance Ep 22: Code Along Tutorial Videos
Rebalance is a weekly flash briefing of new features and updates for you, our QC community. In our 22nd episode we’re happy to share: The winners of the Alpha Five competition were selected and announced! Over a hundred developers from 21 countries participated for more than $27,000 in cash prizes. Read about the competition process in […]
16.01.2020
Rebalance Ep 21: Data Feed Work Scheduling
Rebalance is a weekly flash briefing of new features and updates for you, our QC community. In our 21st episode we’re happy to share: A new data feed work scheduling system! The implementation prioritizes the most recent work items by their size. CPU and RAM usage was reduced, leading to an improvement in backtesting speeds and […]