Simply sign up to the US companies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Quantopian, a “crowdsourced” hedge fund, has begun allocating some of the money invested by industry tycoon Steven ...

BOSTON, MA--(Marketwired - Apr 2, 2013) - Quantopian, which is building the world's first browser-based algorithmic trading platform, today announced the release of Fetcher, a new capability that ...

Those on The Street should be quaking in their Birkenstocks. Today, Quantopian was launched. It is the first browser-based algorithmic trading platform for…anyone really. Anyone with the math chops ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quantopian, a free online platform where more than 85,000 members from 180 countries can create institutional-quality investment algorithms, announced today that it has hired ...

Hailed as the rocket scientists of Wall Street, quantitative analysts have come to replace gut instinct as the engines of investment decisions. Virtually anyone can learn the skills necessary to ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Five years ago, the startup Quantopian envisioned a free online platform that would allow people from all over the world to create institutional-quality investment strategies.

High frequency trading has been scrutinized in recent years because of its links to financial scares like the Flash Crash. But the actual algorithms used to power much of high frequency trading are ...

Open-source and closed-source coding both play major roles in online securities trading. Open-source software can be accessed by the public, so it is always changing. On the other hand, closed source ...

Boston-based company Quantopian has just closed a $25 million Series C funding to expand its crowdsourced investment algorithm platform. The round was led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, ...

“QUANT” hedge funds have long been seen as the nerdy vanguard of finance. Firms such as Renaissance Technologies, Two Sigma and Man AHL, each of which manages tens of billions of dollars, hire ...