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QuantCon Hackathon & Advanced Algo Trading Workshop on Sunday, April 10th
Kelly Elmstrom
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With QuantCon 2016 fast-approaching, we wanted to let you know about two more events we have planned for that weekend. We are running a free QuantCon hackathon, and separately, an advanced quant trading workshop, both on Sunday, April 10th. Read on to find out more.

The QuantCon Hackathon
The hackathon is a free, data-centric hackathon. You will learn how to build a trading algorithm with various data sets from Accern, EventVestor, PsychSignal, and StockTwits. Algos will be judged using a rigorous, quantitative judging process. Prizes to be announced soon!

If you would like to learn more and put your trading strategy to the test, click here.

Advanced Algorithmic Trading Workshop
Learn how to develop and deploy your own factor-driven strategy. We will discuss how arbitrage pricing theory sets the stage for factor driven price models, and walk through the entire quant workflow including: evaluating your model, writing a strategy based on the pricing model, and evaluating the strategy's performance.

The workflows presented in this workshop are the workflows used by professional quants to run large portfolios.

To learn more, click here.

Hope to see you in April!

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The material on this website is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell, a solicitation to buy, or a recommendation or endorsement for any security or strategy, nor does it constitute an offer to provide investment advisory services by Quantopian. In addition, the material offers no opinion with respect to the suitability of any security or specific investment. No information contained herein should be regarded as a suggestion to engage in or refrain from any investment-related course of action as none of Quantopian nor any of its affiliates is undertaking to provide investment advice, act as an adviser to any plan or entity subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, individual retirement account or individual retirement annuity, or give advice in a fiduciary capacity with respect to the materials presented herein. If you are an individual retirement or other investor, contact your financial advisor or other fiduciary unrelated to Quantopian about whether any given investment idea, strategy, product or service described herein may be appropriate for your circumstances. All investments involve risk, including loss of principal. Quantopian makes no guarantees as to the accuracy or completeness of the views expressed in the website. The views are subject to change, and may have become unreliable for various reasons, including changes in market conditions or economic circumstances.

7 responses
Himanshu Gupta

Thanks for organizing this.

Will the QuantCon Hackathon require knowledge of the Quantopian platform?

Kevin Johnson

It does. As mentioned in the link above.

Would love to make it, but I live in CA and unfortunately already busy that weekend.
Hopefully there will be some Handouts or something post event.

Thanks
KJ

Kelly Elmstrom

Himanshu - Thank you for your interest! We will have an overview on the Quantopian platform at the beginning of the Hackathon. We will also have several Quantopian team members on hand to assist folks. If you are interested, but haven't tried us out yet, you are welcome to come by!

Kevin - sorry you cannot join us! We are offering a live stream ticket for QuantCon. All recordings and slide decks will be shared with attendees and live stream folks after the event. Plus, your purchase goes to a great cause! We are donating all live stream sales to Code.org.

Hope this helps!

Kelly

Mark Segal

Hi Kelly,

Is there a discount to attending the workshop if you are already a QuantCon attendee?

Kelly Elmstrom

Hi Mark,

Yes, here is a code you (or anyone in the Q community) can use to get a 10% discount on the workshop:
QCommunityQuantCon2016.

Hope to see you there!

Kelly

Lieh W

Hi Kelly,

Any plans to stream the Advanced Quant Trading workshop for a fee the way you're doing for the main conference? I can't physically attend but would be interested in streaming the workshop.

Kelly Elmstrom

Hi Lieh,

I am sorry, we are not streaming the workshop. If we do this in the future, I will be sure to let you know! In the meantime, you can check out our lectures page which has a ton of great content, and videos that you can follow along with: https://www.quantopian.com/lectures.

Kelly

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The material on this website is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell, a solicitation to buy, or a recommendation or endorsement for any security or strategy, nor does it constitute an offer to provide investment advisory services by Quantopian.

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