Alex won one of the first Quantiacs contests, the Q2 competition, and got an initial investment of $1,000,000. After that he continued developing systems and he currently gets a monthly fee from Quantiacs. We met Alex and asked him a few questions about his background and how he got started with Quantiacs.

Q: How would you describe yourself: Are you more of a trader with coding skills or a coder with trading skills?

Definitely more a coder with trading skills. I didn’t come into this knowing much about trading things. Since then I learned that there...

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The new Quantiacs platform allows quants to download financial data for free. Predictions for markets can be performed offline, downloading locally the Quantiacs backtester, or online, using our cloud for free. In this article, we describe a supervised learning example based on Ridge regression.

When we built Quantiacs we focused on a platform that allows quants to perform realistic trading simulations without getting lost in more technical details. We believe that high-quality trading systems for gl...