https://www.wsj.com/articles/steven-a-cohen-andreessen-backed-diy-quant-fund-struggles-1510095947
Nov 7, 2017:
"A quant-trading firm backed by hedge-fund investor Steven A. Cohen and venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has run into early problems. Quantopian gained attention by creating a network of 160,000 users who developed more than 600,000 trading algorithms, grabbing the early lead in an emerging area of do-it-yourself quant trading. But in the four months since it
began trading on June 1,
Quantopian’s traders have lost about 3%, according to people close to the matter. The S&P 500 rose 6.6% in that period. Given that Quantopian has earned little revenue, it likely will need to raise more cash from investors, something executives hadn’t expected, the people say.About two months ago, Quantopian’s chief investment officer, industry veteran Jonathan Larkin, left the firm, the people say."
jutaxpose with:
"Billionaire Jones, a pioneer in the industry, has turned to more computer-driven trading and hired scientists and mathematicians to help revamp the firm. Tudor
raised about $300 million for a new macro fund, which
started trading in October, that uses machine-learning algorithms to help its manager make trades."