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NYSE binary data, convert to ASCII
The data product "TAQ NYSE Order Imbalances" from the New York Stock Exchange is in a format that is described pretty well in sections 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, and 5 of the document "NYSE Order Imbalances ...
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Topological methods in finance
Recently a promising start-up (Ayasdi) has made headlines. They are a spin-off of the Applied and Computational Algebraic Topology group of Stanford University (ComTop). What they basically do is ...
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Overview of software companies in the industry
I am looking for overview references on software companies that develop applications in the following domains:
asset and portfolio management
risk management
derivatives pricing
trading
quant ...
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Help With Quant Modelling Software
Im a software developer (freelance) working in investment banking, and I'm looking to improve my CV by gaining a better understanding of the financial quant role and the software used by quants to ...
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What to ask for in a good prototyping framework?
Reading up on quantitative methods, model development, and back-testing, one obvious question springs to mind:
What should one ask of a prototyping (model testing) framework?
I know a lot of people ...
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Open source alternative to excel for investment and portfolio calculations [closed]
I am a Linux user, and taking an investment and portfolio management course that uses excel. I was wondering if there are open source alternatives to excel for optimal portfolio calculations? If yes, ...
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What tools exist for order book analysis and visualization?
What tools exist for order book analysis and visualization? In particular, if one wanted to examine a limit order book and understand how it changes throughout the day where would you turn for ...
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Rolling GARCH and higher moments
I m recently doing my dissertation and faced with problem in estimation basic rolling GARCh (1,1) process. I have 2500 observation and need to forecast 1 day ahead volatility in rolling form. I will ...
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robust portfolio optimization re-balancing with transaction costs
The optimal re-balancing strategy takes account of factors including i) objective function, ii) current portfolio weights, iii) expected return vector containing updated views/alpha forecasts, iv) ...
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Efficiently storing real-time intraday data in an application agnostic way
What would be the best approach to handle real-time intraday data storage?
For personal research I've always imported from flat files only into memory (historical EOD), so I don't have much ...
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Software for decomposing structured products into plain vanilla products
Nowadays structured products (or packages) with complex payoff diagrams are omnipresent.
Do you know of any software, add-ons, apps, code whatever, that enables you to enter a payoff diagram or a ...
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Trade station and infrastructure [closed]
I'm very curious to hear about the infrastructure and trading station behind the traders who trade professionally. (i.e., workstation, monitors, operating system, software for trading, etc.)
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On my way to becoming a Quant [closed]
I'm currently studying for my undergrad in CS, and considering to do a grad in both CS and Math. I would like to see what you guys would recommend to prepare myself for a field as a Quant. I am ...
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Main backtesting & trading solutions: QuantFactory, Deltix, etc.
What are the most used/mature/promising commercial solutions today which handle backtesting/ automated trading needs?
I'm talking about vertical product suites like QuantFactory or Deltix which ...
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What approaches are there to order handling in automated trading?
I am currently developing a commercial automated trading program in which users can write their own proprietary code and develop strategies, like in NinjaTrader, MetaTrader etc. Right now I am working ...
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How do I price OANDA box options?
How do I price OANDA box options without using their slow and
machine-unfriendly user interface?:
http://fxtrade.oanda.com (free demo account) sells "box options":
If you already know what a ...
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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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Are there any good tools for back testing options strategies?
There are all kinds of tools for backtesting linear instruments (like stocks or stock indices). It is a completely different story when it comes to option strategies. Most of the tools used are ...
