IS IT WORTH IT BUILDING YOUR OWN SOLUTION?

Build vs Buy: Your Firm's Dream Quantitative Research Platform

Understand the true costs of designing your own professional caliber quantitative trading platform.

Build Cost

software Costs

Software Initial Cost

% FTE

Software Maintenance

% FTE

Data Costs

Initial Data Cost

$

Data Update Fees

$/mo

Data Live Fees

$/mo

Infrastructure Costs

Infrastructure Hardware Cost

$

Infrastructure Maintenance

% FTE

subtotal

Software

$ + $/year

Data

$ + $/year

Infrastructure

$ + $/year

total

Initial Build: $

Maintenance: $/year

Full-time-equivalent (FTE) salaries converted at current US market rates $170,000.

research

What style of research would you like to do

resolution

What resolution data would you like to use?

asset classes

What asset classes would you like to trade?

models

How accurate would you like your models to be?

data

What additional types of datasets do you need?

hosting

Where are you hosting your research and trading?