by Dr. Michael Halls-Moore, founder of QuantStart.com. From QuantCon NYC 2016. The huge uptake of Python and R as first-class programming languages within quantitative trading has lead to an abundance of backtesting libraries becoming widely available. It can take months, if not years, to develop a robust backtesting and trading infrastructure from scratch and many of the vendors (both commercial and open source) have a huge head start. Given such prevalence and maturity of the available software, as well as the time investment needed for development, is there any benefit to building your own? In this talk, Mike will argue the advantages and disadvantages of building your own infrastructure, how to develop and improve your first backtesting system and how to make it robust to internal and external risk events. The talk will be of interest whether you are a retail quant trader managing your own capital or are forming a start-up quant fund with initial seed funding. Don’t forget to sign up for QuantCon NYC 2017 on April 29th. Use the discount code QCommunity2017 for 10% off any ticket. Can’t make it to NYC? Sign up for our live stream - tune in live and get first access to all of our recordings and presentations: https://www.quantcon.com/. ------- Quantopian provides this presentation to help people write trading algorithms - it is not intended to provide investment advice. More specifically, the material is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell, a solicitation to buy, or a recommendation or endorsement for any security or strategy, nor does it constitute an offer to provide investment advisory or other services by Quantopian. In addition, the content neither constitutes investment advice nor offers any opinion with respect to the suitability of any security or any specific investment. Quantopian makes no guarantees as to accuracy or completeness of the views expressed in the website. The views are subject to change, and may have become unreliable for various reasons, including changes in market conditions or economic circumstances.
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