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    Anyone tried ActiveQuant?

    I am not familiar with any UI apps that uses this code. One of the founders works for a hedge fund in Europe and I believe they developed the code for their own uses and then made it open source. With AQ you don't get a canned trade system but it gives you most tools you need to automate any...
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    Anyone tried ActiveQuant?

    Hi, I have over the last year spent some time getting familiar with ActiveQuant (activequant.org). I am a software engineer by trade so programming is no problem, its the finance stuff I find challenging. Has anyone tried this software? You pretty much need to be a very proficient programmer...
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    What should I trade? Stocks, futures, options, commodities..?

    From the news, books and just general interest, stock invensting seems to be the most popular and is the first thing that comes to mind when we talk about "investing" or "trading". However, when I look at what investment banks, hedge funds, quants etc are doing, they seem to be looking much...
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