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Quantopian Test Backfires Or Just Too Early To Make a Determination?

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Mark Melin
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Steven Cohen’s experiment at diving into quantitative investing may have hit a speed bump on his way to launching a new hedge fund with the widely hailed Quantopian platform. The Wall Street Journal reported that the experiment at unleashing a horde of mathematicians, engineers, and computer programmers onto the market panoply has been met with anemic initial returns. What could they do to improve performance? The lackluster performance was followed by Jonathan Larkin, the chief investment officer who put together the algorithmic strategy, leaving the firm.

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.