intuition 0.4.3
A trading system building blocks
License: Apache 2.0

Intuition
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> Quantitative trading kit, for hackers


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> The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful
> servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten
> the gift.

<i align=right>Albert Einstein</i>


Overview
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**Intuition** is an engine, some building bricks and a set of tools meant to
let you efficiently and intuitively make your own **automated quantitative trading
system**. It is designed to let developers, traders and scientists explore,
improve and deploy market technical hacks.

While the project is still at an early stage, you can already write, use, combine
**signal detection algorithms, portfolio allocation strategies, data sources
and contexts configurators**. Just plug your strategies and analyze
**backtests** or monitor **live trading sessions**.

In addition I work on facilities to build a distributed system and
21st century application (big data, fat computations, d3.js and other html5
stuff), tools to mix languages like Python, node.js and R and a financial
library. You will find some goodies like machine learning forecast, markowitz
portfolio optimization, genetic optimization, sentiment analysis from twitter, ...


Features
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* Highly configurable trading environment, powered by [zipline][9]
* From instant kickstart to full control
* Made to let you tweak algorithms, portfolio manager, data sources, contexts and plugins
* [Plugin friendly][8]. Enjoy mail reports, mobile notifications, redis messaging, ...
* Already includes [many][2]
* Experimental live trading on different markets (Nyse, Nasdaq, CAC40 and Forex for now)
* Experimental R integration in your algorithms
* Results analyser
* Financial library, with common used trading functions, data fetchers, ... used for example to solve Coursera econometrics assignments
* Modular design : reuse *intuition* blocks to build your own financial application
* Easy to use data management, powered by [rethinkdb][6]
* [Docker][4] support for development workflow and deployment
* Kind of a CI showcase as I am testing [travis](https://travis-ci.org),
  [wercker](http://wercker.com), [shippable](http://shippable.com),
  [drone.io](https://drone.io), [coveralls](https://coveralls.io) and
  [landscape](https://landscape.io)


Getting started
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Learn more and find the (in progress) documentation at http://doc.intuition.io.

You can follow the development on this [trello board][1] and chat about the
project on [Gitter][3].

A webapp built on top of Intuition is also in development, get your early
ticket at http://intuition.io !


Contributing
------------

Contributors are happily welcome, [here is a place to start][10].


License
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Copyright 2014 Xavier Bruhiere.

Intuition is available under the [Apache License, Version 2.0][5].


[1]: https://trello.com/b/WvJDlynt/intuition
[2]: https://github.com/intuition-io/insights
[3]: https://gitter.im/intuition-io
[4]: http://docker.io
[5]: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
[6]: http://rethinkdb.com
[8]: https://github.com/intuition-io/insights/tree/develop/insights/plugins
[9]: https://github.com/quantopian/zipline
[10]: http://doc.intuition.io/articles/contributors.html