Someone, not so long time ago, turned my attention from Matlab coding towards Python programming. He used a strong argument on the enormous flexibility of the language and equally dynamic capabilities as contrasted with Matlab...
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21 October 2014, 17:24 #AlgoTrading, quants
Programming in Python requires a decent text editor. A decent is a powerful word here...
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21 October 2014, 17:20 #AlgoTrading, quants
Python does miracles. Really. The more I’m diving into the abilities of this programming language the more I’m left speechless. This is this sort of feeling when you can swim among the sharks in the ocean and one day you jump off the plane and discover skydiving for the very first time...
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21 October 2014, 17:16 #AlgoTrading, quants
Financial Risk Management, Modeling, and Algorithmic Trading for Quants There are number of ways on observing any problem, As for the First, you need to define it well, meaning Quantify it by mathematical models, so you have not lost yourself within the data observed, Second...
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21 October 2014, 17:11 #quants
(BY JOHN CASSIDY) In general, I’m not a fan of the economics Nobel. Too often, since it was first given, in 1969, it has been used to reward free-market orthodoxy, as evidenced by the plethora of prizes awarded to scholars at the University of Chicago...
Events
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21 October 2014, 16:57
There are two fundamentally different ways of thinking about complex social systems: the economic approach and the engineering approach. The thinking about Ebola at the Centers for Disease Control reflects the engineering approach. The behavior of everyone else reflects the economic approach...
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21 October 2014, 16:51
Last month, Ryan Dochuk told me about his company’s new privacy policy. Companies change their privacy policies all the time, of course, but Dochuk doesn’t just work for any company. He co-founded and operates the VPN service TunnelBear...
Market News
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21 October 2014, 16:45
Trade automation is a tale of two bond markets NEW YORK (MarketWatch) Trading in the bond market may be starting to catch up to the times, but we’re far from a world where all bond prices are quoted by R2-D2. The New York Times on Monday profiled J.P. Morgan’s JPM, +1...
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21 October 2014, 16:26 #AlgoTrading, quants
"THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CORRELATION AND REGRESSION Correlation analysis compares how two random variables vary together. In regression we assume the values taken by the dependent variable are influenced or caused by the independent variables...
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21 October 2014, 16:19 #quants
Let’s leave the fascinating world of algebra and Matlab for a while and let’s see what exciting we can do from the Excel level. Microsoft Excel has this ‘thanks God’ programming toolkit known as VBA (Visual Basic for Application) that adds a soul of coding into a mortal body of spreadsheets...
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21 October 2014, 15:46