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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Boston-based Quantopian, it provides software and an online community for people who build algorithms to trade securities, just raised $6.7 million in venture capital. But I was struggling to ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Five years ago, the startup Quantopian envisioned a free online platform that would allow people from all over the world to create institutional-quality investment strategies.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - May 14, 2013) - FINOVATESPRING 2013 --Quantopian, the world's first browser-based algorithmic trading platform, today announced the introduction of paper trading and ...

Simon Thornington was the winner of the March edition of the Quantopian Open. (Photo courtesy of Quantopian.) For a couple years now, Boston startup <a href="https ...

BOSTON, MA--(Marketwired - Apr 2, 2013) - Quantopian, which is building the world's first browser-based algorithmic trading platform, today announced the release of Fetcher, a new capability that ...

Steve Cohen is tapping all four corners of the globe to find top investing ideas. Point72 Ventures, an affiliate of Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management, has made a $2 million investment in Quantopian, a ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quantopian, the free online platform for education and creation of institutional-quality investment algorithms, has hired Leslie Baccini as Director of Investor Relations.