Quantiacs

Quantiacs
Company type
Privately held company
Founded2014; 12 years ago (2014)
Headquarters
United States
ServicesWeb Platforms
Websitewww.quantiacs.com

Quantiacs is a crowd-sourced quant platform hosting algorithmic trading contests and a marketplace serving investors and quants.

History

Quantiacs was founded in 2014.[1]

The company has grown from a base of users of 6,500 quants in April 2017[2] to over 10,000 quants in January 2018.[3][4]

Business model

The company invests some of its own money in the competition winners and aims to become a marketplace for automated trading systems. Quantiacs does not charge management fees to investors and assigns performance fees of 10% of the strategy net new profits to the quants who developed the systems.[5][6][7]

The performance of the algorithms can be controlled on the Quantiacs website as their charts are publicly displayed.[8]

The company focuses on quantitative strategies with long term performance horizons, highly scalable and with multiple years of backtested data.[9] Algorithms are tested for at least 6 months to ensure their statistical robustness before being eligible for trading.[3]

In December 2020 a study has used public data from Quantiacs to show how investors respond to the availability of new predictive signals.[10]

Technology

Quantiacs provides an open-source backtester and it supported Matlab and Python until 2021.[11][12][13] In 2021 it released a new version of its backtesting engine focused on Python.[14] Users can work online or use a local version of the backtester for own design and testing of systems.[14]

References

  1. ^ "Trading places: the rise of the DIY hedge fund". Wired. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
  2. ^ "The quants take on fintech". Futures. Archived from the original on January 21, 2021. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Quantiacs Is A Crowdsourced Solution To The Quant Talent Drought". Benzinga. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
  4. ^ "AI and Bitcoin Are Driving the Next Big Hedge Fund Wave". Wired. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
  5. ^ "Investment: Rise of the DIY algo traders". Financial Times. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
  6. ^ "Crowdsourced hedge funds using 'algo' traders raise more money". Financial Times. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
  7. ^ "Embracing the future: How algo trading is going to reshape your stock market?". The Economic Times. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
  8. ^ "Quantiacs is high-stakes fantasy football for quants". TechCrunch. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
  9. ^ "Coming Soon: The Hedge Fund Quant Marketplace from Quantiacs". Finance Magnates. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
  10. ^ Guecioueur, Ahmed (11 May 2022). "How do investors learn as data becomes bigger? Evidence from a FinTech platform". SSRN 3708476. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
  11. ^ "Quantiacs Legacy Code". GitHub. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
  12. ^ "A Sneak Peek at New Investing Apps". Barron's. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
  13. ^ "Democratising Algorithmic Trading Through a Cloud Strategy Based on Business Requirements". Intel. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
  14. ^ a b "Quantiacs GitHub repository". GitHub. Retrieved March 8, 2021.

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