Quantopian has announced a new feature called Fetcher, which allows traders and algorithm builders to import their own data series into the platform. 

With Fetcher, algo builders will be able to expand their focus beyond the world of stocks to include almost any imaginable time-series information. Curious about the impact of unemployment among young professionals on the hospitality industry? How about the correlation between the price of gold bullion and the share values of gold mining companies? Quantopian’s Fetcher may be for you.

Quantopian offers programming-savvy traders (and trading-savvy programmers) a browser-based algorithmic trading platform. Along with a sophisticated backtester, the platform makes it possible for users to build the kind of quantitative trading algorithms often only available to hedge fund money managers and institutional investors.

The company raised more than $2 million in seed capital in January from Stark Capital and GETCO. According to Quantopian, the company’s users have completed more than 87,000 years worth of backtests.

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