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Portfolio Evaluation - PM

I am a Portfolio Manager for a Investment Management Firm and although I have no programming experience I do find the algo approach interesting to pursue as an added feature in my analysis. Not sure where to start. If anyone wants to provide some ideas please reach out to me. Also I can answer any questions anyone might on Portfolio construction, benchmarks, etc.

John

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Hi John,

There are great, free online classes available to learn Python. In particular take a look at these resources:
http://www.codecademy.com/en/tracks/python
https://www.coursera.org/course/interactivepython
http://www.learnpython.org/

We also have 2 no-code options to being live trading on Quantopian:

  • AlgoBuilder - Choose a pre-selected basket of securities or create your own custom basket from our database of over 8,000 stocks and ETFs. You can backtest to see the results and begin paper trading and live trading.
  • US Diversified Portfolio - Deploy a 9 sector ETF rebalancing strategy that we shared and are running against on our real money account. You can read more about the code here.

If you have any questions, feel free to post here or email us at [email protected].

Best wishes,
Alisa

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