Trust Finance

Inspiration

Our inspiration was to create a platform for people to approach investing, and specifically algorithmic trading in an easy way.

What it does

Our website shows users what a few options to invest and our backend work can allow users to create their own index fund based on user-inputted parameters and offers a hybrid of two quantitative strategies for them as well. We also back-tested our strategy separately to prove its effectiveness.

How we built it

We coded out our investing strategies in python and created the website with bootcamp. We use an API called IEX to pull market data to use. We used a separate website called trendspider to backtest the strategy with 120 companies over the past 2 years.

Challenges we ran into

Unfortunately, we didn't have to capability to actually connect our algorithm with a broker, so the algorithm cannot be completed without that step. This is also why we had to backtest on a separate site. We also had issues fully integrating our python code into the site. Given more time we would have liked to have our index fund solution completely run through the website and work with a broker to make both strategies work automatically.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud as first time hackers to have created a full-stack product. We are also proud to have a hybrid trading strategy that outperforms the market.

What we learned

We went into this with very little knowledge on our project. We had to completely learn everything about the API and coding trading algorithms with python.