I was wondering whether there is some kind of roadmap regarding the inclusion of additional datasources and instruments and their pricing?
In particular:
- How much will the subscription to the reuters fundamental data cost once the free trial period (in june?) is over?
- Are there concrete plans to include other instruments (fx, bonds, etc.) and markets/exchanges (e.g. europe)?
cheers
Hi Ueli,
Thanks for your interest in Quantopian. To specifically address your questions, we don't yet have firm plans in place on when and how much to charge for fundamentals. We are primarily focused on improving and expanding the implementation right now. We want to keep it free for as long as we can and eventually we will find a reasonable price for individual community members.
With respect to new tradeable markets, we have decided that futures is the next instrument, and we've started development. We expect to be trading futures later this year.
Josh
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Hi Josh,
thank you for the quick response.
Regarding the fundamental data api: Do you consider to decouple the fundamental data api such that it can be used without paying for the dataprovider while developing the algorithm (e.g. by providing random dummy data) and paying for the provider data only when it is really needed (final stage of development/ backtesting/ live trading)?
thanks
Futures at the end of 2015?
I thought Quantopian was just about to release support to Futures.
What about Options?
Cheers
Ueli, pricing models such as those are definitely on the table for fundamentals and other data sources more generically, when accessed through Quantopian. Some type freemium model is likely to be implemented, but we'll need to think more about how to best set the restrictions on free.
Lucas, I suspect that there was miscommunication or misunderstanding in the past. We are in the early stages of the development of futures.
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I am really interested in the Options support, it would be really interesting if Quantopian could use more of the open-source community. I suspect the Data should not be the main problem right? but the development of the support for these products?.
If ZipLine was released with some teste-data say a couple of years of options date for spy and futures I would be very motivated into digging my hands further in ZipLine to implement some support for it.
Anyone know some free options historical data?
@Josh: thanks for the clarification
@Lucas: I doubt you will find good quality free historical options data somewhere and if you check out the vendor pages (like option metrics) they do not event specify prices.... which is usually an indication for "when you have to ask for the price, it's too expensive for you anyway"....
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