What happened to Quantopian?

What happened to Quantopian?

Quantopian aimed to create a crowd-sourced hedge fund by letting freelance quantitative analysts develop, test, and use trading algorithms to buy and sell securities. In November 2020, Quantopian announced it will shut down after 9 years.

How does Quantopian work?

Simply put, Quantopian is the Uber of the investing industry. It matches algorithm developers with individual investors to create a mutually beneficial relationship. This Boston-based company creates crowd-sourced hedge funds by recruiting freelance quantitative analysts to develop algorithms to trade securities.

Does Quantopian exist?

Quantopian announced that it is shutting down its community platform. Quantopian returned money to investors earlier this year after its investment strategy underperformed. It shut down paper trading in 2019 (having already ended live trading in 2017), then terminated its daily contests in May of this year.

What can I use instead of Quantopian?

Exchange Data International, QUICK, Ziggma, and Graviton are the top competitors and alternatives to Quantopian.

Can you still use Quantopian?

Unfortunately, Quantopian was shut down on November 14th, 2020. The good news is that its open-source software still remains available for use and the community is starting to drive it forward.

Does Quantopian work in India?

You can trade using Quantopian from India.

Where can I find Quantopian lectures?

This lecture series can be found on the Quantopian website, and is free for anyone to follow (though you may have to sign up). The lectures are in the form of jupyter notebooks, but most are accompanied by youtube videos.

Is Quantopian closed?

Quantopian, backed by hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, was trying to crowdsource great investing ideas. But now he and his fellow Quantopian users are hunting for an alternative to keep their ambitions alive. In late October, the company announced it was shutting down.

What is Alphalens?

Alphalens is a Python Library for performance analysis of predictive (alpha) stock factors. Alphalens works great with the Zipline open source backtesting library, and Pyfolio which provides performance and risk analysis of financial portfolios.

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