Quantopian: Algorithmic Trading Platforms
Online platform for building and testing algorithmic trading strategies with Python-based IDE, historical market data, and backtesting engine
What is Quantopian?
Quantopian is an online platform designed specifically for developing and testing quantitative trading strategies. Some key features of Quantopian include:
- Python-based IDE - Quantopian provides an online IDE for writing trading algorithms in Python, including libraries for financial analysis and backtesting.
- Historical Market Data - Access historical price data, fundamentals data, alternative data and more on US equities for researching and backtesting strategy ideas.
- Research Environment - Quantopian's research environment allows you to prototype algo ideas, analyze datasets, develop indicators and filters before deploying a full strategy.
- Backtesting Engine - Backtest your trading strategy over historical data to estimate its performance if traded live in the markets.
- Algorithm Crowdsourcing - You can enter your strategy into Quantopian's contest to compete for allocation from their $100M+ fund.
Overall, Quantopian aims to provide quants, data scientists, and programmers a platform for efficiently ideating, backtesting, and potentially deploying quantitative trading strategies.