I don't know enough about Galaxy to say that we want to be the Galaxy of finance, but I can tell you where we want to go.
There are several key steps in the process of creating quant investment strategies: research, development/testing, backtesting, paper-trading, and finally, live trading. We want to cover all of it.
I think Galaxy is most like the 'research' phase - you want to get your data assembled and in something like a pandas datapanel, which you can then adhoc plot. You're looking for patterns, very quickly testing hypotheses about the data.
We made the decision to build live trading next, and we're full tilt on that, but we will keep expanding the product and it will include the research phase.
drop me a line and we can talk :) -- fawce at quantopian dot com
There are several key steps in the process of creating quant investment strategies: research, development/testing, backtesting, paper-trading, and finally, live trading. We want to cover all of it.
I think Galaxy is most like the 'research' phase - you want to get your data assembled and in something like a pandas datapanel, which you can then adhoc plot. You're looking for patterns, very quickly testing hypotheses about the data.
We made the decision to build live trading next, and we're full tilt on that, but we will keep expanding the product and it will include the research phase.
drop me a line and we can talk :) -- fawce at quantopian dot com