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. […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
08.10.20 Lexie
Providing Queen’s University 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 diverse 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. Ali Masoumnia attends Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and is […]
05.10.20 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
QuantConnect’s Quant League Winner’s Circle: Laurent Crouzet
We started an Alpha Streams Quant League competition with $1,000 prize pools in March. The challenge for quants is to create algorithms that perform well over a 5-year backtest period, perform well in out-of-sample trading, and reconcile well with their backtests. You can trade any asset class or strategy. As there are funds with many […]
05.10.20 Lexie
Autocomplete Python Stubs CI, Binance Exchange Integration, LEAN Speed Improvement – LEAN Release Notes v9194-v9449
In the last 2 weeks the QuantConnect team has been focused on stability and bug fixes. Diving deep into some of the long lingering issues and publishing fixes for the along with additional regression tests to lock in that stability. We also surpassed 10,000 unit tests giving the platform a rock solid foundation for expansion! […]
23.09.20 Lexie
Providing National University of Singapore 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 diverse 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. The National University of Singapore FinTech Lab is a program […]
01.09.20 Lexie
Python Auto-complete, and with Integrated Docker-Local IDE Support with VSCode, PyCharm and Visual Studio. Release notes v9842-v9185
In this release of updates, we have made substantial changes to improve our local development experience through deep integration of the LEAN Docker containers, along with publishing a research docker container for running your LEAN Research Notebooks locally. These docker containers are completely integrated into VSCode, PyCharm, and Visual Studio allowing you to run backtests […]
13.08.20 Jared Broad
Founder & CEO
Values, Security, and Intellectual Property
Over the years, we have occasionally encountered questions regarding our internal security protocols and access to users’ intellectual property (IP). We recognize that users trust us with their time, money, and oftentimes their financial future when they use our platform. So for both current users and for future ones, I’d like to go into more […]