Forbes: Quants-R-Us; interesting new tools

[freedinner]

just reading this article

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremyb...rading-trickles-down-to-individual-investors/

especially this platform seems to be quite promising to me:

http://equametrics.com/index.html

Quantopian also mentioned. Quantconnect is another one, not mentioned here.

 

[mcgene4xpro]

What about protecting the intellectual property?

 

[Satan's Helper]

Are there any other systems out there that are comparable in features?

 

[goodgoing]

Nothing these systems do you cannot do with tradestation, ninjatarder or amibroker, to name a few platforms. Actually they seem to be for starters and sound like they just discovered backtesting at a time when it is losing value amongst traders....

 

[Ash1972]

So now your taxi driver won't just tell you which stocks are hot, he'll recommend a good algorithm to trade them.

Nice progress from 1999.

 

[goodgoing]

Quote from Ash1972:

So now your taxi driver won't just tell you which stocks are hot, he'll recommend a good algorithm to trade them.

Nice progress from 1999.

and optimized to perfection....

These people are rediscovering the wheel.

 

[slickpick]

This is just another way for wannabe retail traders to feel like they're trading within institution plain and simple.