I started using the product when it was AlgoTerminal. With the QuantTerminal rebrand, the price point was dramatically lowered for retail traders. The product definitely has a cult following, but at this point they need to start aggressively marketing the product which I hope to see soon.
QuantTerminal formerly known as AlgoTerminal - one of the world's most sophisticated algorithmic trading systems for buy side firms.
Designed to empower professional quants, QuantTerminal’s features include:
- Strategy Development: An architecture that supports 18 different types of scripts that control every aspect of quantitative trading, all of which can be written in Python or C#.
- API: A robust API that offers more than 600 well organized and easy-to-use functions.
- Backtesting: A sophisticated backtesting engine that can backtest an entire portfolio of multi-asset trading strategies in a single integrated environment.
- Optimization: A multi-core optimization engine that can optimize or walk-forward optimize a portfolio of sophisticated trading strategies.
- Risk Management: An automated risk management module that can be used to monitor multiple trading strategies and manage risk for the entire portfolio.
- Charting and Visualization: A rich charting package that offers an extensive selection of bar types, chart styles and customizations, all of which can be accessed from the API.
- Live Trading: A broker-neutral trading platform that can trade dozens of strategies and thousands of symbols at the same time.
- Intellectual Property: A desktop solution that keeps strategies private and secure on the user’s workstation.
“QuantTerminal's technology has been in development since 2006 and is currently one of the most mature solutions in the industry for professional quants. The platform covers the full life cycle of quantitative trading, including strategy development, backtesting, optimization and live trading,” said Daniel Tochner, the founder of QuantTerminal.
“In addition to our cutting-edge quantitative trading platform our solution includes terabytes of historical market data that quants can download and use for both backtesting and research,” he added.
About QuantTerminal LLC
QuantTerminal LLC is a privately owned company registered in the state of Delaware and headquartered in the U.S. The company develops state-of-the-art technologies for quantitative research and trading.
Looks like the same guy behind IQBroker:
Daniel Tochner
Founder & CEO, IQBroker
Software Architect Daniel Tochner wanted a way to backtest, optimize, and execute multiple algorithmic trading strategies at a portfolio level. When he was unable to find a platform that was capable of the heavy lifting required to meet his needs, he set out to design and build it himself, and IQBroker was born.
Daniel founded IQBroker with the purpose of developing the ultimate algorithmic trading platform. He is an experienced algorithmic trader and software architect with over 15 years of accumulated experience in professional software development, capital markets and business administration. Daniel handles both the vision and the day-to-day operations of the company to ensure that it stays on the cutting edge of technology.
Daniel holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a resident of the beautiful city of Las Vegas and is often in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City.
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Fair play to him/them - looks like he's trying to cobble something together people might actually like/find useful - at a price of course... With decent trading venue support (FIX, broker APIs), Java language integration and an intuitive way to utilise Machine Learning techniques this may well end up being the platform to watch.
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More on IQ Broker:
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- IQBroker LLC announced the launch of IQBroker, its unique algorithmic trading platform for equities, futures and forex traders.
A decade in development, IQBroker allows retail and institutional traders to take advantage of the same powerful algorithmic trading technologies previously available only to the largest financial firms.
Automated Trading with IQBroker
Discretionary Trading with IQBroker
"We are excited to introduce IQBroker's new trading platform after so many years in development," says Daniel Tochner, the founder and CEO of IQBroker LLC. "The platform takes algorithmic trading to a whole new level by enabling traders to fully test and automate their entire investment portfolio."
IQBroker's advanced features include:
- Algorithmic Trading: A fully automated portfolio that is capable of backtesting, optimizing and executing multiple trading strategies in a single integrated environment. Each trading strategy in the automated portfolio can simultaneously trade multiple symbols from multiple exchanges based on multiple bar types and currencies.
- Discretionary Trading: A polished, feature-rich platform for discretionary trading, including cutting edge charts, flexible workspaces, DOM, T&S and more.
- Extensibility: An extensible platform architecture that features 18 different types of scripts to control every aspect of both discretionary and algorithmic trading, all of which can be written in C#, VB.NET, F# and R.NET.
- Broker Neutrality: A broker-neutral solution that supports multiple leading brokerage and data providers.
During beta testing IQBroker will be available for free to everyone. After the beta testing period IQBroker will offer a free Community Edition for advanced charting, portfolio backtesting and trade simulation, as well as several paid editions for live trading.
- Modern User Interface: A modern desktop UI that is both skinnable and highly configurable.
About IQBroker LLC
Established in 2010, IQBroker LLC is a leading provider of high performance trading solutions for professional and individual traders. The company develops a sophisticated broker-neutral trading platform that offers a unique set of powerful features specifically tailored for backtesting, optimizing and executing a portfolio of algorithmic trading strategies. IQBroker also features an advanced discretionary trading solution which includes state-of-the-art charts and other high-end trading tools.
Contact
Daniel Tochner
Founder and CEO
IQBroker, LLC
https://www.iqbroker.com
QuantTerminal - anyone familiar with this platform? Thoughts good or bad?
- Thread starter bluelou
- Start date
capitalmarkets,
Thx for posting all of this. I hadn't heard of IQBroker. I don't use ML so that part isn't important to me. I don't have any issues with the demo version so far. Next step is a call with the company. FWIW, I've also tried reaching out to AlgoTrader but they seem to be discouraging active traders.
Cheers,
bluelou
If anyone here is using QuantTerminal, feedback ? is it often updated and well maintained? does it have a large userbase ? it seems there is a forum for users to share and discuss.
Any experience finding freelancers/developers for getting tasks done setting up QuantTerminal and translating strategies from EL to QuantTerminal ?
Comparing Quant Terminal to SmartQuant and Zorro at the moment, need a better solution than Multichart that i have been using for the past years live trading.
Any experience finding freelancers/developers for getting tasks done setting up QuantTerminal and translating strategies from EL to QuantTerminal ?
Comparing Quant Terminal to SmartQuant and Zorro at the moment, need a better solution than Multichart that i have been using for the past years live trading.
I use it for my own trading and do consulting for the platform in terms of coding strategies, building integrations, etc. You can see other comments I have in this thread.
See p.m.
Update: I spoke with the owner of QuantTerminal (QT) yesterday after testing a demo version of the product. I liked what Daniel had to say and I plan on signing up for a license. He's a small business owner like many of us. I found him to be forthright and generous with his time. The business doesn't require external financing and there are no plans to raise outside capital. A pitfall of a small company is business continuity planning. It wasn't something I asked about but Daniel mentioned it and said he was taking steps to address the issue. QT appears to be a mature product (first launched around 2006 IIRC). This is only my gut read at this point but it seems to be a profitable, stable business and trading platform. I'll post more on this as I port my strategies onto QT and start live trading.