11.06.2019
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 […]
28.05.2019
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 […]
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08.05.2019
Meet Our QuantCommunity – Cheng Peng
QuantConnect has a diverse, skilled, global community of quants, computer scientists, engineers, students, and data scientists. We are proud to be able to gather so many great minds to work together on our platform and provide them with access to numerous traditional and alternative data sets to create the alpha-generating signals available in our Alpha […]
22.04.2019
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” […]
13.03.2019
Powered By LEAN: Ternary Intelligence
In the next edition of our Powered By LEAN blog series, we feature Pavel Paramonov, Ph.D., Chief Science and Technology Officer at computational finance company Ternary Intelligence. Pavel recently spoke with our CEO Jared Broad to help us learn more about his company and perspective on the market, how LEAN helps with backtesting and strategy […]
05.03.2019
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 […]
31.01.2019
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.
24.07.2018
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 […]
11.07.2018
Powered By LEAN: Abbington Investment Group
In the next edition of our Powered By LEAN blog series, we feature Charles (Chuck) Waite, Chief Technology Officer of boutique independent wealth management and investment management firm Abbington Investment Group. Chuck spent some time with our CEO Jared Broad to discuss his firm’s investing strategy, how QuantConnect simplifies their operations & much more! Broad: What’s […]
26.06.2018
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 […]