In an Italian town about 120 miles northeast of Rome, Emiliano Fraticelli spends half his day teaching computer science at a local high school and the other half pursuing a dream he once considered lost to him forever: quantitative trading. He creates computer algorithms that scour market data and make trades based on the patterns they find. That's the kind of thing typically done by professionals working for hedge funds, with sophisticated computers and data feeds at their disposal. Fraticelli, 34, who still lives in his hometown in Teramo, Abruzzo, nestled between the Apennine Mountains and the Adriatic, decided he couldn't leave his elderly parents to pursue an investing career. "I wanted to have some exposure to this quant world, but I wanted it to be remote," he says. Then he discovered Quantopian, a Boston-based startup with a free online platform for developing and testing algorithmic strategies.
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