Ask HN: What are the data needed for quantitative trading? 4 points by socrateslee 7y ago ↗ HN What kinds and quality are of the data? How to get and organize those data?
[–] ry4n413 7y ago ↗ Type: Prices/Volume, Company Fundamental Data (EPS Growth, P/E Ratio, ROI), News (Earnings, New CEO, Divestiture, Weather), "Alternative Data" (Satellite Images, Transactions)Vendors: Bloomberg, Thomson (Refinitiv), Factset, Compustat, CapitalIQ, QuandlQuality: varies, you get what you pay for, cost anywhere from $100's to $100,000's/yrhttps://www.quantopian.com/^ probably good place to start
[–] lucaslee 7y ago ↗ Probably start with some api. Check out Quantopian https://www.quantopian.com/help or IEX https://iextrading.com/trading/market-data/.This subreddit has a lot of information https://www.reddit.com/r/algotrading
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[ 26.6 ms ] story [ 650 ms ] threadVendors: Bloomberg, Thomson (Refinitiv), Factset, Compustat, CapitalIQ, Quandl
Quality: varies, you get what you pay for, cost anywhere from $100's to $100,000's/yr
https://www.quantopian.com/
^ probably good place to start
This subreddit has a lot of information https://www.reddit.com/r/algotrading