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How Long Until Global Equities Are Available?

It's great to see the recent addition of fundamental data. I think this goes a long way to making Quantopian a genuine "investment" tool.

That said, I'm quite interested to know when Quantopian will be integrating international equities into their system?

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What specific global equities would you like to see on the platform? We don't have a timeline for this yet, but I'd be curious to hear about what markets you're interested in.

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I personally am interested in Australian equities.

However ideally I'd like to be able to build a balanced portfolio that could rotate through many of the major international markets.

So forex might be nice as well.

When you say you don't have a timeline yet for this? Do you think this will be something you guys will at least aspire to? Or what are the chances of international equities being able to be traded (even if they aren't able to be backtested) sometime in 2015?

There isn't a timeline for this kind of work, but I can see us adding more tradable assets as we continue to grow. Currently, you can simulate global equities by using US ETFs that model those markets. These ETFs are available for backtesting and live trading. Here are some examples from State Street and Vanguard:

http://statestreetspdrs.com/precise/?c=365&uid=SSGA5491bf4ae2975&category=international
https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/etf/all?assetclass=intl&assetclass=intl