Any interest in a Quantopian like website for Indian markets ?

#1
Hi Everyone,

I am currently developing a web interface for Zipline to develop a quantopian like website for Indian Market. At this point I have built a simple web interface to build and test algorithms using Zipline as a backend and Yahoo finance as a data source for Indian tickers.

Eventually I will be building out an entire frontend, similar to Quantopian, for you to build, test and live trade your strategies. I wanted to see how much interest there is in such a service and if there are others working on something similar and want to colloborate.

If you are already using algo trading in any form please let me know, as I would love to speak with you and offer beta access to the platform.

Thanks,
Shiva
 
#3
Interesting. Can you share more details.


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Sure! So it is a python based web platform, where you can write your algo. Once you write your algorithm, you will be able to backtest your algorithm with historical data and see how it performs.

The platform would show your different risk metrics (sharpe ratio, sortino, max. dropdown, beta, and others). Eventually the plan is to make it so that you can paper trade and implement your algo live using a brokerage acccount (IB/Sharekhan etc).

The advantage of using zipline as a backend is that you can use quantopian's resource and already developed algorithms and adapt them to the Indian markets.
 
#5
Right now is there a way to load Indian stock data into quantopian to run tests. I tried using quandl but didnt work. (Non it guy here)
 
#6
Right now is there a way to load Indian stock data into quantopian to run tests. I tried using quandl but didnt work. (Non it guy here)
Not in quantopian. But with zipline there is a way to load 3rd party data. I have already tested with Yahoo Finance day (daily) with some Indian tickers and it works well. I will PM you a link to the development sandbox where you can see how it works with a test algo.
 
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Hi Everyone,

I am currently developing a web interface for Zipline to develop a quantopian like website for Indian Market. At this point I have built a simple web interface to build and test algorithms using Zipline as a backend and Yahoo finance as a data source for Indian tickers.

Eventually I will be building out an entire frontend, similar to Quantopian, for you to build, test and live trade your strategies. I wanted to see how much interest there is in such a service and if there are others working on something similar and want to colloborate.

If you are already using algo trading in any form please let me know, as I would love to speak with you and offer beta access to the platform.

Thanks,
Shiva
I am interested but these are my questions
a)is it just for building backtesting and live trading or is their any competition like in quantopian. In quantopian they rank the algorithm and the winning algorithm will get a couple of millions of dollars for trading and the profit goes to the algorithm creater
b)who should get the copyright of the created codes ;you as a system provider or the system developer
c)Like quantopian are you gonna open source the modified zipline libraries
d)I myself will not use any unrecognized sites but I really am looking for a intra day paper trading API(like REST) with data
 
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I am interested but these are my questions
a)is it just for building backtesting and live trading or is their any competition like in quantopian. In quantopian they rank the algorithm and the winning algorithm will get a couple of millions of dollars for trading and the profit goes to the algorithm creater
b)who should get the copyright of the created codes ;you as a system provider or the system developer
c)Like quantopian are you gonna open source the modified zipline libraries
d)I myself will not use any unrecognized sites but I really am looking for a intra day paper trading API(like REST) with data
The goal right now is to build a backtesting and live trading platform. The copyright for the code will be wholly owned by the creator/developer. It would be a policy to keep these codes completely confidential. Not even we would be looking at them.

About the contests, I think this will take some time to implement but should everything go as planned, we will have monthly contests.

We will likely open source the modified zipline libraries but not the web platform that we are building on top of it.
 
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#10
I am not familiar with Quantopian but familiar with Tradingview. In trading view we can build algo share the analysis chat.....an awesome one stop website
 

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