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Hello all. I am new to Quantopian and have limited to no programming experience. I am a professional trader for 18+ years running a book of Family Office assets. I have a strategy I have been using over a decade as part of a larger trading portfolio management that I want to break apart to a stand alone system and I want to automate it and I am looking for either a partner or an experienced programmer looking to help with the coding in exchange for some kind of compensation which we can discuss.

The entry parameters will be set up in an Excel spread sheet as follows:

Date Symbol Direction Price
08/08/14 IBM Long 123.80

The coded system (initially to be used as a backtest) will have Quantopians Fetcher algo read the symbol and check Quantopian's data for when the price posted in the spread sheet is traded at, at which time it will enter a trade in the direction listed said the spread sheet. Trade management (entry, exits and stops) will be managed by the Quantopian code and are all straight, mathematical .

I welcome all questions and inquiries and look forward to finding that right fit for my needs.

UPDATE: The last system I created has been running since 2006 and has averaged approx 37% net of fees (50% gross approx) with a sub 6% draw down and has not had 2 consecutive losing months.

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I want to thank everyone for the amazing response. As I am managing assets professionally, I have a responsibility to my clients to make sure the product I put forward is the best of the best. That said, I am ONLY interested in hearing from those with experience programming successful, automated trading systems and that are expert programmers. Although I appreciate an expert programmer brings a lot to the table, there are to many variables in this business to risk clients assets with an unproven entity and the learning curve is too great to restart this project with someone who doesn't know how to navigate the pitfalls we are sure to face. Thank you.

I'll take you up on that offer, let me know your contact info.

Jason Swearingen

As you are a professional trader, I encourage you to have your development partner attempt to utilize my framework: https://github.com/Novaleaf/QuantShim It provides functionality useful for complex strategies, that is not provided by quantopian's default implementation. I have not updated it recently, but will be merging over my new private features sometime in the next few weeks (mostly focused on logging transactions for thinly traded securities).

Sorry I can not offer my assistance: I have an ongoing commitment (for the foreseeable future)

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Great to see this kind of collaboration!

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Thank you Jason. I will look at your framework once I review all of the requests I have received. I do appreciate your offer.

Jef

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