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Karen Rubin - Building a Quantitative Trading Strategy To Beat the S&P500

Karen Rubin - Building a Quantitative Trading Strategy To Beat the S&P500

Two years ago, Karen embarked on a project to learn how to research, write and trade algorithms to invest in the market. She re-learned python and explored what would happen if you invested in women-led companies over a 12-year period. In this talk, she will walk through the highs and lows of her journey from initial data gathering, through writing a strategy to validation and trading.

https://us.pycon.org/2016/schedule/presentation/1697/

PyCon 2016

May 29, 2016
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