If any wants to try their hand at quant trading, Quantopian is a great place to get started. Great data sources and you can get allocated capital and make a lit

If any wants to try their hand at quant trading, Quantopian is a great place to get started. Great data sources and you can get allocated capital and make a little bit of money. Also the competitions are fun and you get paid $50/day for having (essentially) the best Sharpe ratio. If you want to trade your own money, Alpaca is really awesome. Pretty easy to import an algorithm from Quantopian and use it on Alpaca. I’ve been managing about 15% of my portfolio through Alpaca and it’s been great. On my account, I can get 4x intraday leverage, which has been absolutely awesome. Also there’s no trading costs, so I don’t have any problem with daily rebalancing (I actually rebalance to 4x leverage in the morning and deleverage at the end of the day). Highly recommended! There’s a lot of alpha in the market for retail investors (with leverage, no transaction costs, and the ability to short).