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I've been on QC for a couple years now. Even with all our new features, i still don't see any futures, forex, or options Alpha Streams for sale. I also don't see many people pubishing their ideas on the community hear. As QC grows, it may be beneficial to encourage the user base to branch out into other asset classes.
In addition, your annual returns are capped at a certain level with stocks. There is zero leverage. Leverage is how you make money. The most you can find is 3x Leveraged ETFs.
Forex 25 to 50x
Futures 100x
Options 25-50x
I realize the education may be lacking , since its so easy to pick up stocks (buy and hold).
The simplist explanation of leverage is a $1 move in an asset would generate a $10 or even $100 profit or loss in your holding of that asset.
My personal goal is to have an algo running with at least 4 asset classes. crypto, stock/options, forex, futures.
I did create a futures algo but ran into issues with Interactive Brokers API. Because of this i never created the AlphaStream. i just started forex so i haven't seen any real gains. My stock/options i trade manually on my brokerage because i haven't found a good options algo strategy.
Jared Broad
We could only offer alphas on the data streams QC has licensed for live trading. OPRA and CME live streams are very expensive so we could not offer them. We just added the CME live feed (not published, in beta) and soon we'll be able to offer futures alphas.
FX however is just really hard to meet the goals we set for Alphas. It does not have a positive bias like stocks so the alphas are harder to come across. We could lower the barrier for FX-only strategies but have resisted that, for now, to keep the market quality high.
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PS: I think there will be a lot of demand for crypto alphas now. It has a positive bias, is relatively liquid, and has many tech-savvy investors.
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Henry apaw
Hi Apollos
Really interested in future's and options trading myself also - Not sure if you have a discord? but any tips, advice or groups to follow would really be appricated.
Cheers Henry
Apollos Hill
hey henry apaw i use tastytrade
.ekz.
Yup there is a slack channel and a discord.
I actively trade options and have shared some example strategies here in the past. Working on some fairly complicated ones at the moment, with spread management, option pricing optimization, and (soon) adjustments.
Find me on the slack with the same user name: ‘ekz’
Join here: https://www.quantconnect.com/slack
Apollos Hill
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