Increased Research Licensing Opportunities
We are now offering the option to automatically make backtest meta-data available to Alpha Streams clients as a way to get your work more attention and early interest.
Rebalance Ep 20: Quotes & Alpaca Brokerage
Rebalance is a weekly flash briefing of new features and updates for you, our QC community. In our 20th episode we’re happy to share: Equity Quote Data Coming Soon! Our engineering team is working hard on adding equity quote data to the platform, allowing us to better model the spread of trades. This will be paired […]
Rebalance Ep 19: 2019 Year in Review
Rebalance is a weekly flash briefing of new features and updates for you, our QC community. In our special year-end episode we’ll be counting down our top 10 highlights: This year we’ve launched 10 new boot camps with topics covering the algorithm framework, pairs trading, parameter reduction, and overfitting. Try out one of the lessons here. […]
Rebalance Ep 18: Liquid Value Stocks
Rebalance is a weekly flash briefing of new features and updates for you, our QC community. In our 18th episode we’re happy to share: More time to submit competition alphas! We are extending our Liquid ETF Competition until January 20th as the new PSR filter criteria is proving tough to crack. You can use the liquid […]
New Sources for Alpha: A Different Way to Do Data
At QuantConnect, our goal is to provide you with the tools and data that will help you create high-performing algorithmic trading strategies. And with LEAN, our open-source trading engine, our community can conduct a robust research process and solely focus on what makes them unique: their alpha. With that in mind, we are excited to […]
Rebalance Ep 17: Search, Shortcuts, & Speed
Rebalance is a weekly flash briefing of new features and updates for you, our QC community. In our 17th episode we’re happy to share: A powerful new search system! The new search uses a smart service that handles misspellings and synonyms so you get better results when searching the documentation. You can find the search bar […]
Rebalance Ep 16: Hidden Markov Models
Rebalance is a weekly flash briefing of new features and updates for you, our QC community. In our 16th episode we’re happy to share: Documentation improvements! We added a table of contents for each page, allowing you to find topics you are looking for faster. We’re also installing new search technology which will help you find […]
Rebalance Ep 15: Principal Component Analysis
Rebalance is a weekly flash briefing of new features and updates for you, our QC community. In our 15th episode we’re happy to share: An increase in backtest speed when using tradebar type data! We’ve implemented a new way of parsing raw data into data points, avoiding in-between sub-strings and parsing. This improves performance and reduces […]
Rebalance Ep 14: Faster History & Pairs Trading
Rebalance is a weekly flash briefing of new features and updates for you, our QC community. In our 14th episode we’re happy to share: Faster history requests and documentation updates! We put several new features in production aimed at improving your user experience. Recently our team increased the speed of history requests, added “type-trees” to documentation […]
Rebalance Ep 13: Kalman Filter & New Competition
Rebalance is a weekly flash briefing of new features and updates for you, our QC community. In our 13th episode we’re happy to share: Our second Alpha Streams contest, the Liquid ETF Competition, is live and accepting submissions through mid-December! At the same time, we are working on enhancing our alpha streams submission review process. […]