How quickly should you be able to get your backtest results?
If you’re evaluating models across 20,000 securities and 30 years of history, most systems will leave you waiting. Long run times, system crashes, or pre-cached shortcuts are still the norm—especially for firms relying on legacy systems or internal tools. With My Data Outlet’s Snowflake Native App (MDO), you get a different experience altogether: Live backtests. […]
Python Without the Pain: How Snowflake Notebooks and MDO Empower Investment Analysts
Setting up a Python environment has never been easier for investment analysts—thanks to Snowflake Notebooks and MDO. Traditionally, configuring a stable Python environment is a job best left to developers. Even experienced programmers wrestle with keeping package versions and dependencies in sync. One small update to a library, and suddenly your entire environment breaks. Multiply […]
From Trial to Decision in a Week: Evaluating Investment Data at Lightning Speed with MDO
For most investment firms, the answer is “not fast enough.” By the time a new vendor’s dataset is provisioned, tested, curated, and validated, the trial period is nearly over—and you’re left deciding whether to buy based on incomplete analysis. Let’s look at why that happens and how My Data Outlet’s Snowflake Native App (MDO) completely […]
How MDO Can Save You Time and Money
Firms in the investment management industry are constantly faced with decisions of build vs. buy for the various tools that they use. This article includes insights from many years building quant solutions and discusses the tradeoffs between building custom solutions or using a software provider like MDO. See here for the full article. Contact us […]
Factor Performance Calculation Timings
How quickly can you run backtests on the MDO platform? Read this post. See here for Factor Performance Timings. Contact us today for more information!
