Hands-On Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading

Quantopian

Quantopian is an investment firm that offers a research platform to crowd-source trading algorithms. Upon free registration, it enables members to research trading ideas using a broad variety of data sources. It also offers an environment to backtest the algorithm against historical data, as well forward-test it out-of-sample with live data. It awards investment allocations for top-performing algorithms whose authors are entitled to a 10% (at time of writing) profit share.

The Quantopian research platform consists of a Jupyter Notebook environment for research and development for alpha factor research and performance analysis. There is also an Interactive Development Environment (IDE) for coding algorithmic strategies and backtesting ...