Open-source and closed-source coding both play major roles in online securities trading. Open-source software can be accessed by the public, so it is always changing. On the other hand, closed source ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Five years ago, the startup Quantopian envisioned a free online platform that would allow people from all over the world to create institutional-quality investment strategies.

The available futures data includes daily and minute-level detail on open, high, low, close, and volume data and is collected from electronic trade data dating back to 2002. Backtesting of algorithms ...