Hailed as the rocket scientists of Wall Street, quantitative analysts have come to replace gut instinct as the engines of investment decisions. Virtually anyone can learn the skills necessary to ...

High frequency trading has been scrutinized in recent years because of its links to financial scares like the Flash Crash. But the actual algorithms used to power much of high frequency trading are ...

Simply sign up to the US companies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Quantopian, a “crowdsourced” hedge fund, has begun allocating some of the money invested by industry tycoon Steven ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quantopian, the free online platform for education and creation of institutional-quality investment algorithms, announced today the addition of U.S. futures to their platform, ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quantopian, a free online platform where more than 85,000 members from 180 countries can create institutional-quality investment algorithms, announced today that it has hired ...

Open-source and closed-source coding both play major roles in online securities trading. Open-source software can be accessed by the public, so it is always changing. On the other hand, closed source ...

Those on The Street should be quaking in their Birkenstocks. Today, Quantopian was launched. It is the first browser-based algorithmic trading platform for…anyone really. Anyone with the math chops ...

About a year ago, I spoke to John Fawcett, the CEO of Quantopian, about his efforts to build an ecosystem of third party quants. These quants would use Quantopian’s platform to execute their trading ...

Boston-based company Quantopian has just closed a $25 million Series C funding to expand its crowdsourced investment algorithm platform. The round was led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, ...