Center for Innovative
Financial Technology
Resources
Alpha Lab Resources
CIFT plans to provide students with access to professional tools, and shared expertise in getting started to use them for trying “classic” quant strategies, and extending these as part of undergraduate, graduate, and professional education programs.
This is expected to include both hosted applications at Haas, links to web applications of interest, and “glue” programs developed by CIFT affiliates that facilitate interesting combinations of these resources without requiring students to reinvent these each time.
Web Resources
General
Berkeley Student Investment Club
Data
- Wharton Research Data (Berkeley affiliation required)
- OpenTick - Free real-time and historical market data for trading systems and trading platforms
- Fourteen research data sets provided by Yahoo relating to advertising bidding, music, movies, web connectivity, natural language, social computing and gaming.
Simulators and Trading
- Marketocracy - Professional-level portfolio performance and attribution analysis.
- Hedgestreet - Mock trading account on new binary options exchange
- Interactive Brokers - Annual computer trading contest. $400K in prizes
Extended Search and Semantic Web Tools
- Yahoo Pipes - A powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web
- Reuters Calais - Automatically annotates your content with rich semantic metadata. API and web interfaces.
Visualization
- Omniscope Visualization Interactive data visualization tools
Natural Language
- Lingpipe - Natural language processing tools
- General Inquirer - Giant language system developed over 25 years.
Collective Intelligence
- Quantnet Discussion group at Baruch
- Programming Collective Intelligence Source Code - From Toby Segaran’s book
- CIFT's very own Group Discussion - Go sign up to join the collective
- Aleri Complex Event Processing - Powerful and robust complex event processing platform for Linux and Windows
- Streambase Reuters Edition - Provides Hedge Funds with highly productive and simplified tools to develop and deploy ideas in a fraction of the time of traditional development practices
