Questions about handling, obtaining, generating, or analyzing all types of financial or economic data.
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How to generate synthetic FX data for backtesting?
I want to generate synthetic forex data for the purpose of backtesting my trading algorithms. I have some rough ideas in mind on how to do this:
Start with a curve representing a trend, then randomly ...
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Where to download list of all common stocks traded on NYSE, NASDAQ and AMEX?
I have a very basic data question: how to get a list of all common stocks traded on NYSE, NASDAQ and AMEX? I would need to be able to get the approximate list of common stocks as is available in ...
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What time are Bloomberg Open Symbology Files updated daily?
Does anyone know what time the Bloomberg Open Symbology precanned files are updated every day? I am planning on upating my view of them at 9 AM EST every morning. Furthermore, will the files for ...
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Historical Hedge Fund Index Data
Can anyone point me to some Hedge Fund index data - daily levels of the HFRX or something similar, that is available for free and has history back to 2007? The data available through my broker seems ...
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How do I backtest a convertible bond arbitrage strategy in R/Matlab?
Since no one was able to answer my previous question, I am going to try to backtest a modern convertible bond arbitrage strategy myself (perhaps I'll report the results back here, if you're lucky :)). ...
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Market Data For Project
I'm looking to find a service that will allow me to download historical data on stocks, bonds, options, futures, indices, etc and also to pick up new files either on a daily or weekly basis. I've been ...
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Which data service to buy for redistributable data?
This is a follow-up to my previous question regarding anyone whom wanted to 'donate' data.
So far no one has stepped up (learning more about buying and selling data, I realize that I'm going to have ...
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Is there a standard / methodology to determine and grade the quality of OHLC data?
Inputs are most important to any decision making.
For strategy backtesting, the OHLC data is one of the most inputs.
So to ensure the correctness and integrity of OHLC data, we have checks on the ...
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Usage of NoSQL storage in Finance
I am wondering if anyone has used NoSQL (mongodb, cassandra, etc.) to store and analyze data.
I tried searching the web but was not able to see if the financial firms had gotten in to using nosql ...
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Hobbyist Quants [closed]
I'm interested in investing some money in the stock market, and I have the math background that will make following the math used in quantitative finance possible (with some work). What are the ...
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Do you have historical tick data you want to donate?
Do you have historical market/pricing ticket data that you would like to donate to the Open Source Trader project (OST)??
Please: upload your files! Once we gather some data, we'll do our best to ...
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1answer
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A generic limit order book: What are the most important queries it should be able to answer?
Assume a class LimitOrderBook which represents a limit order book in a trading system.
To be able to represent the limit order book a data handler reads a feed ...
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Monthly data for popular indices (constituents).
Trying to be concise:
I am interested in the most popular indices (SP500, FTSE100, DAX30, CAC40, SMI30, etc).
For each index I want to know its constituents in a monthly basis.
For each constituent ...
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Earnings and valuation data sources online
Are there any free/cheap sources for historical data on company earnings and valuations? I can get historical price data from Google and Yahoo, and it looks like I can get about five years of ...
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657 views
Mass Market Data Source
My current project requires large amounts of historical and real-time market data (1m or 5m bars for various products, mostly US futures for as far back as available). This data will be analyzed by ...
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1answer
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Reliable Economic Data on China
Trying to develop a new strategy, but I need to find reliable economic data on China. It's well known that the official figures there don't tell you everything (to put it nicely), so I was wondering ...
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Why is the ratio of Hi-Low range to Open-Close range close to 2?
I tried it in several symbols and timeframes with the same result:
$$\frac {mean(HIGH-LOW)}{mean(|CLOSE-OPEN|)}$$
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Effective Euro-USD (EURUSD) Exchange Rate Prior to Euro's Existence
Motivation: I am running a quantitative analysis that requires long-term, exchange rate data.
Problem: Does anyone have methods for dealing with the EURUSD exchange rate prior to the Euro's ...
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Free market data (delayed or snapshot)
I know there are similar questions but I don't think there are any identical ones.
Basically, I'm looking for one of these two things.
Delayed market data feed. A tick by tick feed, but delayed by ...
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Any known bugs with Yahoo Finance adjusted close data ?
Yahoo Finance allows you to download tables of their daily historical stock price data.
The data includes an adjusted closing price that I thought I might use to calculate daily log returns as a ...
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FX Tick Data question
Anyone can tell me what the first column and the last column in this FX tick dataset mean? The first seems like some kind of ID, and what D in the last column mean?
368412956 AUD/CAD 12/30/2007 ...
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Availability of machine-readable OCC Infomemos?
Does anyone know of a source of machine-readable (XML,etc) OCC Infomemos? The PDF files available below contain all the information I want, but are a pain to parse.
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data on historical stock price of bankrupt companies
does anybody know a site where I can download historical data on stocks including companies that have gone bankrupt such as lehman brothers?
it appears that bankrupt companies no longer appear in the ...
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Are public historical time series available for ratings of sovereign debt?
The nice list of free online data sources Data sources online does not mention any data from ratings agencies.
Are historical time series available for sovereign credit ratings (other than as ...
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Seeking Historical Non-Finance Datapoints for Backtesting
I'm working on some financial analysis code which I'd like to test against a historical dataseries to analyze the correlations to my algorithm to some non-finance related data. Ideally, I'd like to ...
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What is the best data structure/implementation for representing a time series?
I was wondering what is best practice for representing elements in a time series, especially with large amounts of data. The focus/context is in a back testing engine and comparing multiple series.
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How to update an exponential moving average with missing values?
Say you have an Exponential Moving Average being continuously updated over a time series using 1-second-long time periods. What should happen if there is no value for the next second, e.g. there were ...
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What is a good broker for HFT?
Currently I trade trough IB. I run my HFT strategies (100 roundtrips per hour) but I think that latency is killing me and my profits are shrinking. I need the fastest possible brokers out there which ...
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Free/cheap source of structured historical quarterly filings?
What is a good place to acquire cheap/free historical quarterly filings data for US Companies? Specifically, I'm interested in the consolidated financial statements. The data should be well-structured ...
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Innovative ways of visualizing financial data
Finance is drowning in a deluge of data. Humans are not very good at comprehending large amounts of data. One way out may be visualization.
Traditional ways of visualizing patterns, complexities and ...
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How should I store tick data?
How should I store tick data? For example, if I have an IB trading account, how should I download and store the tick data directly to my computer? Which software should I use?
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Free intra-day equity data source
Are there any free data source for historical US equity data? Yahoo finance has daily prices but I'm looking for something more granular and goes back 2 or more years (doesn't have to be close to tick ...
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Free data on swap options
I am trying to analyze valuation methods for swaptions. Does anyone know of free example data for these OTC-traded securities?
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Training set of tick-by-tick data?
I'm looking to find a free source of tick by tick data (<1sec) for training purposes. It doesn't need to be longer than a day, and I don't care what instrument, or exchange, or time it is. I just ...
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Is there a technique for using xts or zoo objects with options data (i.e., many entries per date) in R?
I am starting to work with options data from optionmetrics. I use data frames, but it seems like xts or zoo objects are the way to go for features and speed. I can't figure out the best work-around to ...
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What data sources are available online?
What sources of financial and economic data are available online? Which ones are free or cheap? What has your experience been like with these data sources?
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What kind of basic framework or application do you use to run your trading algorithms?
I heard about MetaTrader from http://www.metaquotes.net. Is there any other framework or program available? Do you use different software for backtracking and running your trading algorithms?
Thank ...
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What broker/feed/APIsetup allows for recording the most accurate data (cheaply)?
I'm currently using IB's Java API and getting feeds through them. However the real-time feed is updated only every 250ms and the historical feed only every second.
I'm primarily looking for ES data ...
