The Blankly Blog

KuCoin and FTX Integrations, 500 Stars, Discord AMA Event

Good morning! We hope everyone has had a great weekend. With $1.17 trillion wiped from the crypto market, maybe there were some algorithms out there that predicted the major sell-off. Over on our side, many things have begun to pick up speed, as we just wrapped up an amazing week with Z Fellows.

Blankly is Now Integrated with KuCoin

We're excited to announce the availability of the KuCoin exchange integration with the Blankly Framework, making it easier for our users to use a wide range of exchanges in conjunction with our services.

How to Build a Crypto Price Monitoring Discord Bot

This article is a continuation of a previous piece on using Blankly Connect to help create community trading bots. So, if you haven't had a chance to read that yet, I'd highly recommend doing so as it will help you in catching up to speed with what will be discussed in this article.

Why You Shouldn’t Use a No-Code Trading Platform - 3 Reasons

There’s a huge buzz in the market nowadays that “anyone can make money” in the markets. True, it’s gotten so much easier, and with the advent of technologies of all alike, it sure has hell has made investing and opportunities in the market so much more formidable

Blankly Platform Early Demo, New Blog Page, Youtube Channel Launch

2022 is getting started underway, and it’s an exciting start for us here at Blankly. Development has been steady on both the package and platform, everyone is working hard on writing helpful articles and blog posts, and things are in line with our plans moving forward into the new year. Thank you for all your support, and enjoy!

Trading Algos - 5 Key Backtesting Metrics and How to Implement Them

Performance metrics are key to building better strategies and screeners. Whether it's analyzing a single strategy or a portfolio of strategies, fundamentally you are making trades, assuming costs and risks, and making a return on your investment. Let's see how some of these metrics and how to implement them in practice.

Using Blankly with Jupyter Notebooks — Golden Cross

By allowing users to easily pick and select which cells to run, users can modularize their code development and easily focus on the parts that need more attention. That's why Blankly easily supports jupyter notebooks out of the box.

An Honest Comparison of VS Code vs JetBrains - 5 Points

After coding in VS Code for over five years, it might seem strange as to why I decided to switch my primary (and honestly only IDE) I had been using up to this point. Here are some of the reasons that helped influence my decision to switch

How I Like to Forecast Stock Price

I used to value stocks with a discounted cash flow model. I stopped doing so because slight changes in the discount rate can completely change the valuation of a stock. These days, I try to value stocks based on their earnings growth with some sort of end multiple.

Build Better Algorithms: Three Backtesting Pitfalls to Avoid

In order to understand how well our algorithms will perform in the future, we need to look at how they would have performed in the past. This is backtesting. The process seems easy, but there are many ways it could go wrong.

Keep Transaction Costs In Mind!

Every time your trading strategy buys or shorts a security, it incurs a cost. This cost could be a brokerage fee, driving the bid-ask spread, or even delays in the time your program takes to send an order to your brokerage and the time the order is executed...

The Terms of Quants

There are so many terms that go around when describing the quant world that it often makes it difficult to fully understand what’s going on or what quants really do. Here’s a couple we’ve found to better understand positions in the quant industry.

Build Better Algorithms: Backtesting 101

For all quantitative traders, whether you are just starting out or have years of industry experience, backtesting can make or break your strategy’s profits. In this article, we will go over some of the key pitfalls of backtesting, as well as the metrics to keep an eye out for when you backtest your own models.

Blankly’s New Year's Resolutions

Hey there Blankly Community. It’s Brandon here to talk a little bit more about what we have in store for Blankly and some of the resolutions that we are making as a company. It’s been a wild 2021. With everyone battling COVID-19 in the workplace, life has been full of its ups and downs...

Marketing to Developers is Difficult, but Rewarding

How do we reach out to the everyday developer? If you have a great idea for a developer focused product, where would you go to find people who are interested?

How To Add A Community Trading Bot on Discord

At Blankly, we pride ourselves not just for the product that we are building, but also towards cultivating a community of quant enthusiasts which no one else is doing in this field right now. We identified a critical void that many Discord servers currently suffer from: low member engagement.

My First Week as a Blankly Developer

Just a little blog post detailing what I've learned about the team since joining from week 1. It's been a lot of fun, a lot of grinding, but super exciting stuff. I can't wait to see where Blankly goes.

Blankly 2021 Year in Review

Founded in March this year, Blankly was nothing more than just a personal frustration. It was an attempt to improve and connect several API’s between crypto exchanges to trade on.

The Rise of Crypto Hedge Funds

As the crypto becomes more regulated and investment-grade infrastructure is developed, hedge funds are starting to get in on the cryptocurrency boom.

Meet the Founders: Brandon Fan, Cofounder and CEO

Discover more about our founder Brandon, and how he decided to work on Blankly and where he thinks it's heading

$1B Valuation, Blankly Platform Early Access

Happy December! As 2021 is coming to a close, we hope that everyone has had a great year. It has been an amazing journey for us as well.

We Got into Z Fellows!

We're excited to announce that we have gotten into Z Fellows! With an early-stage funding round of $10,000 and an amazing mentorship team, it'll enable us to pour into our Blankly community even more.

Reddit Success, New Website, OANDA Support

Hello! Welcome to our first newsletter. If you’re reading this, we really appreciate you being a part of Blankly’s growth within the developer community.