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“It’s exciting to see the growing number of women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM); my advice is to not be afraid to jump in headfirst,” said Sarah Leonard, graduate student at the University of Chicago. “It is a difficult field but also lucrative and rapidly growing.” Leonard sat down with CloudQuant to talk about her experiences in data science, her insight as a female in a male dominated world, and the intensive process it took to find her dream job.

On February 8th Trevor Trinkino presented Machine Learning with FXCM in a webinar. During this presentation, he promised to make available his machine learning Python Notebook and the supporting data file. These are available on our Google drive at:

If you knew your trading strategy would work 50% of the time, would you commit your scarce savings to trade it? What if it worked 75% of the time? Backtesting gives one the confidence to know that your trading strategy will work.

Thank you for the amazing year. This holiday season we want to thank all of you crowd researchers for your amazing accomplishments. Since our official launch in August, we have allocated multiple times to crowd researcher created algorithms. We are excited about what you have accomplished.