QuantConnect

QuantConnect is an open-source and community-focused algorithmic trading platform that lets you deploy strategies to maximize returns.

Design and trade strategies in the world’s leading algorithmic trading platform. With robust financial tools from research to production, you can easily design and execute a live trading strategy confidently.

QuantConnect boasts an impressive data library for backtesting, research, and live trading. Its research terminals attach to around 400 terabytes of trade data for equities, options, forex, crypto, futures, CFDs, indices, and alternative data.

View the data market from integrated data providers like US Equities, Tiingo, and Bitfinex. All institutional-grade datasets include the respective start dates, end dates, and resolutions. Receive each dataset to your strategy point-in-time to avoid selection bias.

There's also an option to import custom data.

Move from research to backtesting at the speed of light. Perform multi-asset backtesting on portfolios composed of thousands of securities with realistic margin-modeling. Run thousands of full backtests on QuantConnect’s scalable cloud compute and gain back hours of your time.

You can even visualize all iterations of your parameters to analyze your strategy’s sensitivity. Open each result to dig deeper into individual trades and backtest logs.

This algorithmic trading platform is also open-source, which means you can tweak it as you like to suit your needs. Code locally in your favorite development environment and sync all projects to work on the go with QuantConnect's IDE.

QuantConnect’s security is top-notch. Its engineers deploy daily software updates to keep the server up to date with the latest security patches. It also uses SSH key login to add an extra layer of security. Plus, only a selective group of people can access the database.

With a community of 212,000 members, QuantConnect is the largest quant research community in the world. Every month, users create 2,300 new algorithms on QuantConnect.

Create your free account to deploy algorithmic trading strategies in a co-located live-trading environment today.

Key features

• Open source
• Backtesting for multi assets
• Live trading through integrations or liquidity providers
• Data library of free and paid datasets
• Global quant research community