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    magenta.grimer

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    bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-16/quant-trading-platform-quantopian-closes-down

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    Best posts made by magenta.grimer

    • IP Protection and the ongoing sustainability of the business model

      I wish this post can be a starting point for debating about some fundamental aspects of a business area like the one in which Quantiacs operates.

      1. How do you protect the IP of a strategy's author? How can a quant who spent hours and hours developing a good strategy be sure that you won't look at its code?

      2. Is the 10% on the net profits just for 1 year? What happens if you use more than 1 year?

      I fear that issues like the ones above(expecially the IP related one) could prevent top notch authors from participating in the competition.

      I also have the feat that the business could not be sustainable in the long term. Quantopian, which seemed to have a business model really similar to Quantiacs, has closed down and from rumors, opinions I gathered here and there I.P. protection was the main issue for talented authors.

      I think you will have to give ground on this front, maybe by accepting somehow signals generated by cloud systems set up by authors or other systems that can 100% safeguard the I.P.

      And the fact that you end paying royalties after one year is also crucial. If I designed a very good, long term strategy why shouldn't I get rewarded long time?

      posted in General Discussion
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      magenta.grimer
    • RE: IP Protection and the ongoing sustainability of the business model

      Great reply @support ! It really addresses many of my concerns in a good way.

      Thanks

      Mine's is just an idea, but maybe for IP protection one can think about putting in charge a third entity, such as Amazon or Google or similar firms with cloud activities and upload the source code there, such an "escrow" system....

      posted in General Discussion
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      magenta.grimer
    • Importing external data

      Hi!
      I'm wondering if it's possible to import external datasets, like for instance datasets in .CSV we can find on Quandl or something like it.

      Or if it's even possible to stream them "live", update them day by day with the latest day 's data, so even in the live trading phase (in the case a strategy is selected and wins the contest), it can trade consistently.

      Thanks

      posted in General Discussion
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      magenta.grimer
    • RE: More color on contest rules

      @support ok, now things are more clean

      posted in General Discussion
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      magenta.grimer
    • RE: Help in developing a strategy

      @support fantastic answers! Really on target and appropriate! I couldn't be more satisfied!

      posted in Strategy help
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      magenta.grimer
    • RE: Trend following strategy BUG

      @magenta-grimer trend following strategy created on 27 nov 2020

      posted in Strategy help
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      magenta.grimer
    • RE: The Q17 Contest is running!

      how many strategies can a participant submit for q17 live trading phase?
      15 or 50?

      posted in News and Feature Releases
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      magenta.grimer
    • RE: Logging out and leaving code running

      @jeppe_and use reserve!

      posted in Support
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      magenta.grimer
    • In Sample Leaderboard for Q16

      Hi!

      I think it would be useful to have a leaderboard with the current strategies for Q16, just as we had for Q15 back in April or May or March 2021....

      Thx

      posted in Request New Features
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    Latest posts made by magenta.grimer

    • Example strategy for Q23

      Can you please post a simple, "standard" strategy for Q23, maybe even of just 1 single Jupyter cell. It's a lot of time that I don't code here and it can be helpful, thanks!
      Nothing complicated with ML, NN or anything else, just a simple strategy that maybe goes long when 30 days SMA is greater than 15 days SMA. Thanks

      posted in Support
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    • RE: The Q20 Contest Started

      Thank you @support, maybe you can be so kind to post a complete strategy using this "trick" ? A strategy based on this fundamental dataset?

      Thanks

      posted in News and Feature Releases
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      magenta.grimer
    • RE: The Q20 Contest Started

      @support honestly I don't understand what you need...

      I would like to use fundamental data for Q20, but its quality before 2012 seems not good enough.
      I was thinking about creating an hybrid strategy that maybe uses technical indicators before 2012 and fundamental data after that, but I've struggled to create such a strategy. Maybe you could help in this regard.

      Or maybe another solution could be fill the dataset before 2012 with artificially created data...

      posted in News and Feature Releases
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    • RE: The Q20 Contest Started

      yes, I've also tried using the fundamental data but it's impossible since before a certain date its quality is not enough.....
      can @support give any help about it?

      posted in News and Feature Releases
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      magenta.grimer
    • RE: Some clarifications

      @support ok, I understand.

      So basically if I win the first prize and my strategy "only" generates linearly 1% per quarter, I have guaranteed payouts for one year ( four quarters).
      But after one year you might say "Look, your returns even if positive are too low, we don't want to renew your strategy and so we won't run it anymore".
      And so even if I won the contest and generated positive returns, after one year the fees you are rewarding me with are over.

      Okay..now I understand and it makes sense.

      If It's possible and it's not something secret and under NDA, how many strategies of past Quantiacs competitions are you still running?

      Let's say of Q3...after so many years, are there still strategies running ? Are the authors still collecting fees?

      What's the average returns of these old strategies over the years? On average, how many years are strategies in the top 3 running?

      Can you provide some statistics?

      Thanks

      posted in General Discussion
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      magenta.grimer
    • Some clarifications

      hi!

      In the email announcing Q18 there's written :

      "About the Q18 Contest
      Quantiacs allocates 2M USD to this contest. The capital will be allocated to the seven quants whose strategies achieved the highest Sharpe ratio during the Live Contest Period which will run from October 1, 2022 to January 31, 2023.

      The quants will earn 10% of the profits generated by their systems for 1 year without any downside risk for them. The earnings for the previous contests can be viewed in the leaderboard. Take a look also at the interviews with the winners which we published in the forum."

      Can you explain a little more the 1 year thing?

      Let's say I win the first prize, let's say that it generates constantly every 3 months 5% return FOREVER linearly. Does it mean that I will get payed 10% of the returns minus trading expenses and so on for just 1 year, and then I receive no more royalties? Like, on 1 M USD, 4000$ per quarter ( let's say as above 10% on 5% minus trading expenses) for one year and then nothing?
      So like 16000$ and then nothing?

      Thanks

      posted in General Discussion
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      magenta.grimer
    • RE: The Q17 Contest is running!

      how many strategies can a participant submit for q17 live trading phase?
      15 or 50?

      posted in News and Feature Releases
      magenta.grimer
      magenta.grimer
    • RE: More color on contest rules

      @support what you say is really interesting..it means that one can expect to receive an allocation even outside the contest, if the performance is interesting...
      How much capital do you have to allocate?
      So far you seem to be running like 34 M USD in strategies since Quantiacs started....is that correct?
      will you be able to allocate 5M USD if you find the "correct" strategy?

      posted in General Discussion
      magenta.grimer
      magenta.grimer
    • RE: More color on contest rules

      @magenta-grimer It means that if I really write a good strategy, I can receive fees for many years, too

      posted in General Discussion
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      magenta.grimer
    • RE: More color on contest rules

      @support ok, now things are more clean

      posted in General Discussion
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      magenta.grimer
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