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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...