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Lavine Epstein
posted Jun 30, 2017
Seeking Help

Quantopian is a beautiful service that allows the everyday people to test and deploy algorithmic trading. It is a hedge fund for the geniuses to test their trading algs. What's great is that you do not have to have capital (as most of us don't), it is a contest!

However, I have found a fundamental flaw in Quantopian at it's core. A flaw which can be exploited.
The exploit completely legal and does not violate terms or any policies, Quantopian should not even care. The exploit would not affect Quantopian or the users.

This can be used to take advantage of Quantopian, for profit.

It would be easier to work with more people.
However, first I would like just to see if we are the right people to do business with with each other, so reply if you are interested :)

3 responses
John F
Jun 30, 2017

This can be used to take advantage of Quantopian, for profit.

uh what?
Im sketched out but curious

Lavine Epstein
Jun 30, 2017

Yes, there is a fundamental flaw in Quantopian and how it works which can be exploited for profit.


Mad sketch? Sure lol, but isn't the stock market in general sketch? Stocks... Derivatives... Commodities...
It's just one big game, a casino.
Since it is just one big game, and the entire stock market is baloney, there exists opportunities. These opportunities are being capitalized on by speculative traders, namely algorithm traders including Quantopian (where they find a pattern in the stock market and capitalize on it).
If you think about it, trading stocks speculatively does no benefit humanity, it is not very productive.
...Quantopian is built upon this, it is built upon this game. Since it is built upon this game, it ironically is subject to the same exploits that it capitalizes on.

"Well, who am I to say that the entire stock market is one big game, that it's all fake? The speculative day traders provides liquidity to investors so it isn't that bad"
I am a big trader, I have made hundreds of thousands with my own personal wealth trading, and I'll be the first to admit that this all actually turns out to be one big game.

Anyway, I have found out how to exploit and capitalize on Quantopian, and it would be easier with help

John F
Jun 30, 2017

K pm me

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