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small questions about the limitations of quantopian

Hi
I am new to this platform.
My questions is it looks like @ quantopian, u can only find equity data. So what if some strategies are built with a combination of equity data and future data. then u are stuck. As u just can't get the future data.

Maybe one solution's u can fetch to some server to get the future data?

Any ideas ?

1 response

Hello Eric,

At present Quantopian data comprises US stocks and ETFs. This will expand later although the scope and timeline has not been announced by Quantopian.

You can use 'fetcher' to import any CSV data that is available via HTTP. The example here https://www.quantopian.com/posts/visualizing-implied-vs-realized-volatility uses VIX Futures. (See: http://www.quandl.com/OFDP/FUTURE_VX1-CBOE-VIX-Futures-Continuous-Contract-1-VX1-Front-Month for the data source.)

P.