What's The End Goal for Wealthfront and Betterment? (2016)
Since this is a community of programmers, you <i>might</i> be interested in doings things like this yourself instead. There are a couple of options:<p>- Quantopian (<a href="http://quantopian.com/" rel="nofollow">http://quantopian.com/</a>): Python based, kinda a little bit open source (backtesting only), live trades on Interactive Brokers or Robinhood. Has a big community for stocks.<p>- QuantConnect (<a href="http://quantconnect.com/" rel="nofollow">http://quantconnect.com/</a>): .NET based, more open source (includes live trading), live trades on Interactive Brokers, has a similarly sized community but the community's attention is spread to other asset types like Forex as well.<p>Both have numerous example algorithms you can clone and run without much trouble. An example vaguely suited to investing: <a href="https://www.quantopian.com/posts/modern-portfolio-theory-minimum-variance-portfolio" rel="nofollow">https://www.quantopian.com/posts/modern-portfolio-theory-min...</a>