Quant strategies from the Quantopian Community

Please join Quantopian at Founders Den in China Basin this coming Wednesday. This is a free event but you will be asked to register and wear a name tag, plan to arrive 15 minutes prior to the event start (at 6pm) to register at the door.

DIY Quant strategies from the Quantopian Community

Abstract:

This talk will cover a practical overview of the breadth and characteristics of quant strategies built, backtested and shared in an open source community on Quantopian. We will cover basics of mean reversion, price momentum, value, sentiment and seasonality strategies as they can be built in python using freely available tools and data. We will also cover a brief progress report on live trading, from backtest to forward test to putting real money on the line, all in a browser-based open-source framework.

Speaker:

John "Fawce" Fawcett is the founder and CEO of Quantopian. Prior to founding Quantopian in August of 2011, Fawce was founder and CTO of Tamale from 2002 through the company's sale to Advent Software in October of 2008. Fawce received a BA in Mechanics and Materials from Harvard University in 1999.