Engineering

Finance has always been an industry that stays up-to-date on the latest advances, from deep learning and quantum computing to the blockchain and beyond. This is why programming for finance has come to be so crucial.  Financial analysts and finance professionals long ago started adopting programming as an important part of their toolkit, as this […]

There are a lot of tools you need to successfully operate in markets, from solid mathematical skills to the ability to do extensive research into company fundamentals. Over the past few decades, programming has become increasingly important. Though not all traders are programmers, being able to write good code is the kind of thing that […]

Want to test a trading strategy before committing any of your or a client’s investment capital? Backtesting stocks and trading strategies is a smart move. Backtesting stocks is a method of simulating an investment strategy without risking any money. You’re only performing paper trades without risking any capital. Historical data is the only way to […]

If you’ve been following markets the past several decades, there is no doubt you’ve heard the term algorithmic trading. There are both staunch opponents and proponents of this method. Some argue algorithmic trading rips off normal investors, while proponents say it provides liquidity to markets and helps “lubricate” prices so there is always a machine […]

If you haven’t seen part one – read it here: Making the World’s Best Screener for Our Users As we’ve improved our screener- we also couldn’t stand idly by not updating our custom metrics creator. Tiingo was the first major financial tech company to allow any user to create their own stock screening metric. And as […]

It is over a year ago Tiingo launched it’s first screener. We were attempting to move forward the power of screeners, and we had a grandiose ideas of how to do it. We were the first to: Allow users to create their own metrics Created a new UI that challenged existing assumptions of screeners We’re […]