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Backtesting Trading Strategies
BlogIf you knew your trading strategy would work 50% of the time, would you commit your scarce savings to trade it? What if it worked 75% of the time? Backtesting gives one the confidence to know that your trading strategy will work.

Futures Radio Show interviews Morgan Slade December 12, 2017
CloudQuant Press, Industry NewsCloudQuant's CEO was interviewed by Anthony Crudele of Futures Radios show to discuss topic including Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning applied to algorithmic trading. Alternative datasets are a major topic of discussion. People are saying that data is being created faster than ever before. That really isn't true. What is really happening is that data is being captured and stored at a faster rate than ever before. Vendors are now making AltData available for traders to change the way that they interact with the markets. This applies to futures and stocks with the popularity of Deep Learning in algorithmic trading strategy development.

Industry News: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for December 18, 2017
Industry NewsCloudQuant Thoughts: We really like the following quote in this article: “A huge part of financial services built technology in-house or used a small number of vendors and that old model is dying,” Whitcroft added. ‘Financial services is being componentisized.” This gets to the heart of new business models that include innovation and crowdsourcing. We have found that innovators, with atypical backgrounds and education, when given access to institutional grade tools and datasets can create something unique. There is significant value that can be derived. Our business model is proving this out daily.

Industry News: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for December 11, 2017
Industry NewsAI & ML news covering Hedge Funds, Career, Fraud Detection, Vineyards/Winemaking, Quanthouse, Apple, Quantitative Brokers, and more

Newsweek Event: Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (December 5th to 7th, 2017)
CloudQuant Press, Industry NewsCloudQuant will be participating in the Newsweek conference on Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for the Capital Markets Industry on December 5th to December 7th, 2017 in New York.

The Rise of Quants in Trading and Financial Markets
CloudQuant Press, Industry NewsCloud computing and access to industrial grade investment and data science tools are changing the playing field for quantitative trading firms. CloudQuant's CEO Morgan Slade participated in a panel at Stocktoberfest West in October 2017. This has raised the discussion of quantamental investment and data science techniques. This is the merger of technology, investment management, and data science.

Futures Radio Show from FIA Expo 2017
CloudQuant Press, Industry NewsAn interview by Anthony Crudele of Futures Radio Show discussing the success of the Trading Strategy Incubator, crowd researching, and algorithmic trading.

CloudQuant at FIA Expo in Chicago: perfect storm for open source revolution in quant trading
CloudQuant Press, Industry NewsThe impact of machine learning and open source resources on quant trading could be described as explosive. At FIA Expo in Chicago, CloudQuant’s CEO Morgan Slade will be discussing how that’s translating into opportunity for a wider variety of participants.

Quant Trading and Superpowers: Morgan Slade speaks on Opportunity
CloudQuant Press, Industry News"You have a chance to try and change an industry" said Slade, CEO of CloudQuant at the MarketsWiki Education’s World of Opportunity event in New York.

CloudQuant Launches with Unprecedented $15 Million Allocation to Crowd Researcher
CloudQuant Press, Industry NewsCloudQuant, the trading strategy incubator, has launched its crowd research platform by licensing and allocating $15 Million (USD) to a trading algorithm. The algorithm licensor will receive a direct share of the strategy’s monthly net trading profits.