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Trust is essential (http://blog.quantopian.com/on-trust/). We see trust as something we earn over time with transparency and openness. We even open sourced our core intellectual property, the backtester itself: https://github.com/quantopian/zipline

We also believe setting our own incentives to match our members' needs is key to sustainable trust. That's why Quantopian doesn't invest its own capital - we want to be purely focused on and motivated by serving quants.

Being a successful quant takes many things - talent, mentorship, access to data, great systems, discipline. We started with backtesting because many aspiring quants end up skipping rigorous backtesting because of the time necessary to develop the test harness. We focused on community from the start to help connect new talent with mentors.

If you're not ready to trust us with your algorithms, I hope you'll trust us with a bit of your time. Come share some of what you've learned over the years with our community.




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