Quant finance is becoming the most common way to invest, yet most investors have no way to compete due to the massive barriers to entry.
The future of quant finance will be radically open-source; why should millions of engineers re-invent the same brokerage and data integrations over and over again?
These connectors should be done once and open-sourced. Like device drivers for your mouse or keyboard, you should simply plugin a brokerage/dataset, which will work to a standard interface.
Yet funds and vendors keep these locked up because they're a "competitive advantage" to prevent other funds/vendors from starting.
We're breaking that cycle.
QuantConnect has just open-sourced 15 brokerage integrations. It represents roughly seven years of work from a dozen engineers. The Interactive Brokers connector has executed $20B in notional volume across 200,000 live strategy deployments.
Our mission is to create a Linux for quantitative finance. You will never need to write another brokerage connection or data set integration because they'll all be open-source and free.
Let's make quant finance more transparent and accessible.