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+# Quantopian notebook
+This jupyter notebook workshop is for IIT Stuart-Princeton Quant Trading Conference 2017 Chicago
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+Date: Monday, October 23, 2017 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (CDT)
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+Place: Illinois Institute of Technology, Stuart School of Business Downtown Campus
+       565 West Adams Street
+       Chicago, IL 60616
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+## Quantopian workshop Introduction
+- Quantopian is a crowd-sourced investment firm and provider of of the world's first browser-based algorithmic trading platform.
+The material presented has already been vetted and used by professors at top tier schools such as Havard, Princeton, Stanford and MIT.
+- There will be hands-on exercises using real financial data and all the concepts will be presented with take-home code to perform
+every analysis. 
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+## Quantopian workshop Agenda 
+- Introduction to Algorithm Trading
+- Overview of Quantopian Platform
+- Exercise: Introduction to Research Environment
+- Lecture: Introduction to Pairs Trading
+- Exercise: Find your own pairs
+- Lecture: Best Practices in Quantitative Research
+- Lecture: Overfitting
+- Exercise: Backtesting
+- Choice of Directed Exercises
+- Wrap-up