Hacking 8 Algos

My code-free experience learning how to clone, test and trade eight extremely profitable quant finance algos on the Quantopian platform.

With only wannabe coding skills, and just a simple background in philosophy, but (hopefully) a knack for calling myself on my own bullshit, I set out to crib from the best Algos being discussed in Quantopian forums, run the backtests, understand the strengths and weaknesses of each, learn all the required ‘Quant’ concepts (Sortino, Sharpe, Alpha, Beta, MaxDD etc.), and ideally set each Algo alive into ‘paper trading’ (ie. pretend money) all with plenty of time before QuantCon 2017 (April 28–30 in NYC), where Quantopian plans to release their much anticipated Futures API, to be used by anyone that joins their open quant finance community.

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