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Jared Broad

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$1 Per Trade, It’s a Quant Revolution

We’re proud to announce live trading with Tradier Brokerage is now public! In a special offer to QuantConnect users, Tradier Brokerage is offering a limited release of 100 accounts with a flat fee of $1 per trade* with the promo code Quant1. Fees this low on a retail-accessible platform are unparalleled. Robust Modern API In […]

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Live Trading with Interactive Brokers

We’re proud to announce the release of automated trading with QuantConnect and Interactive Brokers. Our technology breaks down all the barriers to deploying your own automated live trading strategy and allows you to focus on creating alpha.

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    Pioneering Tomorrow’s Trading

    QuantConnect provides a free algorithm backtesting tool and financial data so engineers can design algorithmic trading strategies.

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    Open Source Future of Algorithmic Trading

    The future of finance will be powered by open source algorithmic trading. LEAN algorithmic trading engine enables you to design and backtest a strategy in seconds, with virtually no setup required. LEAN is community supported and 100% open source.

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    Your Ideal Algorithmic Trading Platform

    Would you like a copy of the QuantConnect source code, so you can code, backtest and trade locally from your computer? You could design and debug strategies from your laptop in Visual Studio, using a local data-source, and then when you’re ready simply deploy it to the cloud to backtest on our entire tick-level data library? You could utilize cloud based optimization to backtest massively in parallel and test your strategy for parameter sensitivity, in minutes…

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    Raul Pefaur

    Rotating Inversely Correlated Assets – NIFTY and USDINR

    Over the last 15 years the economy of India has boomed and it has been reflected in the NIFTY index. The NIFTY has grown 7x since 1998 as the country has grown its exports. According to the UN the one of the primary exports of India are high value services which contributes 30% to their […]

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    Backtesting with a REST API

    We’re deprecating the GIT-API and replaced it with a powerful REST-API that allows you to create, update and backtest projects all via URL. To kick it off we are open sourcing new tools for visual studio that tap into this API and submit a backtest from Visual Studio.

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    ‘Lean’ Backtesting Engine v2 Released

    After 8 months development we’ve released a new backtesting engine powering QuantConnect called Lean. It is a complete rewrite of QuantConnect’s core technology that can take a generic time-series data source and run a backtest. We wanted QuantConnect to quickly and easily accept any data source and be able to trade on it as it […]

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    Using the QuantConnect Charting API

    We’re pleased to announce the release of a new charting API which lets you create flexible, dynamic charts from your backtest. The charts stream to your browser as the backtest is running and can be configured in many different ways. It is a very simple API, allowing you to create custom charts with just 1 […]

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    Raul Pefaur

    Harnessing the Twitter API for Sentiment Strategies

    In this project we will be writing an application which downloads tweets from Twitter. We are continuing our journey leaning C#, as we started with our Yahoo Finance data downloader. Twitter has a REST API that allows us to  search for tweets, users, timelines, or even post new messages. We will use an incredible C# Twitter Library […]

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    Raul Pefaur

    Downloading Yahoo Finance Data with C#

    The following post is the first in a series by Raul Pefaur on Learning C#. Over the last month Raul has taught himself C# with a variety of projects, tutorials and books which he will describe to help others on their journey to using C# for finance. Raul has a Master of Finance and lives in Santiago, […]