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 ...

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.