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Quantopian’s Community Services Are Closing

47 points by jpn 6y ago

novaleaf 6y ago
Summary: Quantopian is closing. DL your stuff before Nov 14th.
goodfight 6y ago
RIP one of the only communities of independent researchers fighting wall st.
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TuringNYC 6y ago
I know this is disappointing, but I'm glad they open sourced the packages (see: https://github.com/quantopian https://github.com/quantopian) I could see it having been worse, e.g., where the entire ecosystem disappeared. Perhaps there is an opportunity for another player to mix and match the open source packages into an alternative community. However, if Quantopian is shutting this down, it is probably because the economics doesnt make sense (perhaps accounts dont convert well?) Anyone know what happened? Edit: Lectures seem to be gone too! https://www.quantopian.com/lectures https://www.quantopian.com/lectures
- chicagoquant3 6y ago
  Not exactly sure what happened, but I don't think their models were doing well — they had to return investor money earlier this year (https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2020/02/20/fintech-firm-quantopian-is-returning-investors.html https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2020/02/20/fintech-f...) I still think the economics works — QuantConnect seems to be doing really well — they've been running cash competitions lately. They have even more data which along with backtesting is free, and it also supports live trading for a monthly fee.
toomuchtodo 6y ago
If someone from Quantopian sees this, could you upload your lectures to the Internet Archive? Or put them back up for a day so someone else can?
- jbredeche 6y ago
  Hi, the lecture notebooks are in our research_public repo, at https://github.com/quantopian/research_public/tree/master/notebooks/lectures https://github.com/quantopian/research_public/tree/master/no... Hopefully that helps! We'll be keeping these OSS projects online. (I work at Quantopian)
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mkuklik 6y ago
Community is shutting down. Does it mean the entire company is closing? What other businesses or clients do they have?
- kgwgk 6y ago
  I imagine this continues: https://factset.quantopian.com https://factset.quantopian.com

47 points by jpn 6y ago

novaleaf 6y ago

Summary: Quantopian is closing. DL your stuff before Nov 14th.

goodfight 6y ago

RIP one of the only communities of independent researchers fighting wall st.

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TuringNYC 6y ago

I know this is disappointing, but I'm glad they open sourced the packages (see: https://github.com/quantopian https://github.com/quantopian) I could see it having been worse, e.g., where the entire ecosystem disappeared. Perhaps there is an opportunity for another player to mix and match the open source packages into an alternative community. However, if Quantopian is shutting this down, it is probably because the economics doesnt make sense (perhaps accounts dont convert well?) Anyone know what happened? Edit: Lectures seem to be gone too! https://www.quantopian.com/lectures https://www.quantopian.com/lectures

chicagoquant3 6y ago
Not exactly sure what happened, but I don't think their models were doing well — they had to return investor money earlier this year (https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2020/02/20/fintech-firm-quantopian-is-returning-investors.html https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2020/02/20/fintech-f...) I still think the economics works — QuantConnect seems to be doing really well — they've been running cash competitions lately. They have even more data which along with backtesting is free, and it also supports live trading for a monthly fee.

toomuchtodo 6y ago

If someone from Quantopian sees this, could you upload your lectures to the Internet Archive? Or put them back up for a day so someone else can?

jbredeche 6y ago
Hi, the lecture notebooks are in our research_public repo, at https://github.com/quantopian/research_public/tree/master/notebooks/lectures https://github.com/quantopian/research_public/tree/master/no... Hopefully that helps! We'll be keeping these OSS projects online. (I work at Quantopian)
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mkuklik 6y ago

Community is shutting down. Does it mean the entire company is closing? What other businesses or clients do they have?

kgwgk 6y ago
I imagine this continues: https://factset.quantopian.com https://factset.quantopian.com