SmartQuant Discussion

About the company:

Portara is a trading technology application that wraps itself around the whole of CQG Datafactory databases and allows the extraction of continuous back-adjusted data down to the 1 minute resolution. Data output is homogenous ASCII/CSV/TXT is platform neutral and is guaranteed to operate through any database repository. Portara has the largest reach of data access globally covering all futures FX and cash market exchanges http://portara.org/databaseall.php.

Accessibility:

Portara infrastructure has been built in collaboration with CQG to solve the huge cost burden associated typically with institutional database modelling of this nature. Data is from inception 1968 for Daily - 1983 for 1 minute bar. Portara's $3m+ CQG Datafactory databases are available via flexible subscription at many 100x fold less in cost than conventional data purchases. Portara has many of the world's top CTA's, banks and hedge funds who have provided testimonials and have Portara integrated into their daily trading solutions.

Partnership with SmartQuant:

Portara has partnered with SmartQuant so that professional traders hedge funds and institutional trading groups can combine a verifiable world-class data source into the SmartQuant framework. Portara has developed an API for SmartQuant professionals to allow programmatic calls direct to CQG databases from within the framework itself. Watch the SmartQuant and PortaraAPI Video http://portara.org/smart-quant-open-quant-2014 . The API may also be used within SmartQuant for users wishing to research sell-side strategies.