
Introducing Mia V2 — Your AI Quant Developer 💡 Generates strategy ideas 🧠 Writes & debugs code 📊 Runs backtests & suggests improvements
Jared Broad
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Founder/CEO @QuantConnect #Quant 📈 Entrepreneur. Husband & Father. Explorer. Trader. Biomed engineer. Kiwi in Miami, building the future of finance. 🇳🇿

Introducing Mia V2 — Your AI Quant Developer 💡 Generates strategy ideas 🧠 Writes & debugs code 📊 Runs backtests & suggests improvements

The team at @QuantConnect recently created an integration that brings Databento's real-time and historical market data directly into LEAN, their open-source algorithmic trading engine. For the hundreds of thousands of developers already building with LEAN, adding a Databento API key provides our normalized market data across research, backtesting, and live trading - all within their existing setup. ⬇️ To get started, check out the guide below



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