@Tim Sergeev that's an excellent idea for creating a video on how to improve strategy. Although a written document/manual would go a long way as well because it will serve as a nice guideline

@Tim Sergeev yes, I would love to do a contest and see how we can improve our strategy, and then compare our results. Great idea. This is exactly what QuantConnect experience should be about: taking existing strategies from other sources and improving upon them, assuming there was a small edge to the strategy to begin with in the initial testing.

Also from what I understand, traditionally MCP also uses a lot more tokens. But for those who don't want to mess around with learning VS Code or want to have the ability to do this from anywhere on a cloud and not from their home computer only, then it's a reasonable alternative.

@Tim Sergeev Yes, I use my original kit. Plus, Claude integrated a lot of your kit elements into it for items that it didn't initially have. Also, a lot of the course material that you recently provided has been used as a source to ensure that my kit cover all angles in research and strategy analysis. So i feel like i have a pretty robust kit at the moment, my Claude.md file is close to 500 lines and it references to couple of supporting MD files and an addition 20 custom skills as it goes through the strategy phases. So once I feed it strategy details, it systematically goes through it and does its testing, and ensures all the necessary details are there in case I missed something. The problem is that, in the planning stage, it keeps asking me so many questions because it's designed to cover all the angles. I feel like I'm going back and forth for a long time before it starts to get to backtesting. I guess considering everything it's trying to cover, its no wonder. I just wanted to see if it had anything to do with the claude model im using so I didn't have to spend so much time reading its responses which at times I find confusing After that, its smooth sailing on each phase of testing as it guides itself basically to ensure all angles are covered. Perhaps with experience, I'll get better at this. It's just a matter of time

Also, im willing to share my kit if anyone is interested. It comes with a 40+ page guide ... Although it's very rough and customized to what I did and is not as easy to follow as Tim's course ... anyhow, DM me if interested

Very in-depth course and thoroughly thought out, covering multiple angles. I've done a few backtests myself prior to this course, but I haven't considered quite a lot of aspects during my backtesting clearly. I tend to let Claude guide me quite a bit instead of me steering it in the right direction and working together instead. I think with the amount of information this course has provided, the user can really engage more with Claude. But at the end of the day, the real trick is to actually put this all into practice so it becomes second nature. Hopefully, by the end of the year, we can be on a similar page that Tim is on.

Wow, 40% return. That's pretty impressive. I'm surprised more companies wouldn't jump on this bandwagon. I wonder what kind of platform they use, if it's QuantConnect as well or their own proprietary platform with a team of analysts and programmers doing all the backtesting work.

@Tim Sergeev yeah, we basically have the same tools, yet don't have the overhead they do. So even though they produced 40% annual returns after commissions, they still had to pay an army of PhD employees eating into their profits. 😄