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Also don't forget about Quantiacs (https://quantiacs.com/) -- Quantiacs supports both Python and Matlab, and is focused on managed futures -- not equities. It's open source, and unlike quantopian or quantconnect -- Quantiacs actually matches your algos with institutional investors and shares the profits with you....and you retain 100% of your own IP.

Comment · 9 years ago

I'd recommend that you get good at stochastic processes and time series analysis, machine learning, and neural networking on the tech side, and managed futures and commodities trading as opposed to stocks.

Quantiacs is the best place to learn. They are the world's 1st and only crowdsourced hedge fund actively trading with institutional capital, you can contribute your algo to their marketplace and get matched with millions in investment allocations and you keep 10% of the profits and retain 100% of your IP, and they also run the world's largest quantitative finance competitions -- giving out $2.2M in allocations per Quarter.

Unlike Quantopian, Quantiacs focuses on managed futures as opposed to equities. This is important because managed futures are uncorrelated with the stock market and are the most liquid markets in the world -- it's where the professional quants play. So if you want to be successful with quantitative finance and algorithmic trading -- you should focus on managed futures more than equities. So even though there are more users on Quantopian, the best quants in the world are on Quantiacs.

Also on Quantiacs you can use either Python or Matlab so it's more flexible, and the learning curve is not as steep as with Quantopian.

I'd recommend that you take a look here for tutorials: https://quantiacs.com/GetStarted

And see what others have said about it here: https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-think-about-Quantiacs-com-...