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CloudQuant rolls out Upgrades to Free Stock Market Backtesting System
CloudQuant Press, Industry NewsCloudQuant, the trading strategy incubator, announces upgrades to our free stock market backtesting system. The web application allows any market enthusiasts to develop a trading strategy using easy to learn Python programming. Anyone who has ever written a spreadsheet macro or a simple program can easily use the system.

Market Turmoil Generates Opportunity for Proprietary Traders
Blog, CareersIn these times of market turmoil and volatility, the Kershner Trading Group stands ready to provide traders with a firm built on a strong foundation of significant capital investment, innovation-focused trading technology and decades of experience in the active and proprietary trading space.
Kershner Trading is actively seeking experienced US Equities Traders

FXCM Machine Learning with Trevor Trinkino
BlogOn February 8th Trevor Trinkino presented Machine Learning with FXCM in a webinar.
During this presentation, he promised to make available his machine learning Python Notebook and the supporting data file. These are available on our Google drive at:

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.

Harami Sell Signal with Three Inside Down Demonstrated on $GOOG
Blog, KekstadtDecember 19, 2017 Monday Google pressed new highs, but Tuesday closed out the day with a Harami Sell signal. Watch out for today. A negative close today boosts the negative outlook with the emergence of a Three Inside Down pattern. In this event, it will most likely mean that there will be a “little coal in Google stockholders stockings for Christmas”.

Technical Analysis Library (TA-LIB) for Python Backtesting
BlogAnyone who has ever worked on developing a trading strategy from scratch knows the huge amount of difficulty that is required to get your logic right. ... TA-LIB Turbo-Charges Your Research Loop: TA-Lib is widely used by quantitative researchers and software engineers developing automated trading systems and charts. This freely available tool allows you to gather information on over 200 stock market indicators.

Understanding Candlestick Bars & Market Data for Beginning Algo Programmers
BlogIn this video, we introduce you to Candlestick Bars, a store of Historic Market Data, how to access that data via Pythons Lists and how pointers work in lists.

$GE – Short Term Buy Signal - Piercing the Line
Blog, KekstadtTechnical analysis shows a piercing the line trading signal. This post includes links to source code show how to capture this signal with TA-LIB

ZigZag Strategy Suggestion from Quora
BlogA suggested a Zig-Zag trading strategy that bounces back and forth on the stock market to make small profits. Testing shows the strategy wouldn't work.

Backtest Visualization on CloudQuant
Blog, Industry NewsThe Quantitative Strategy Backtest ScoreCard is saving time for crowd researchers who are able to visualize the results of multi-day backtests quickly, even as the backtest is running.