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R: How feasible is it to store — and work with — tick data in a database connected to R?
I'm looking to convert some tickdata .csv files into a database on a local disk and then use R to call the data and do my various analytics and modelling.
What are some best practices / ...
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How to calculate historical intraday volatility?
Sorry for what must be a beginner question, but when I went to write code I realized I didn't understand exactly how historical volatility, or statistical volatility, is defined. Wikipedia tells me ...
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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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Mapping symbols between tickers, Reuters RICs and Bloomberg tickers
Is there any known solution (preferably open source) to map between ticker symbols, Reuters and Bloomberg symbols. For example:
Ticker: AAPL
Reuters: RSF.ANY.AAPL.OQ
Bloomberg: AAPL US Equity
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Recover full tick data from missing tick data
Due to some economics/regime problem, I can only have access to non full-tick data from an exchange.
To make the problem precise, a full tick data $X$ is a series of $(t_i,p_i,v_i)$ for $0 \leq i ...
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Analyzing tick data
What are some of the commonly used techniques to analyze tick data?
I am looking at tick data to see how the quotes/ mid-price evolves due to certain events in the market. Since tick data is ...
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Applying models with normality assumption on tick data?
Beginner question. Having read a couple of papers and book chapters on high-frequency data forecasting, I'm surprised (and confused) that the same time series techniques can be applied to ...
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Historical Level 2 Data (Market Depth)
I'm currently looking to hone a system using market depth however I am looking for a good source of historical level 2 data.
As of right now the best source of historical I have found is automated ...
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Entry and exit points for very short mean-reverting timeseries
I have a model specifying a cointegration relationship on a number of transaction-level timeseries.
I would like to specify entry and exit points for trades where these points ideally would be just ...
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Should I use SSAS to store Tick and bar data?
I have been looking for a low cost solution to effectively store and query tick and bar data.
Databases like kdb+ and Streambase are too expensive for me.
Building a custom solution with SSAS (Sql ...
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What are the advantages of knowing the bid and ask over the best bid and ask?
I am importing historical intraday tick data from Bloomberg and I noticed the Bloomberg API allows users to import best bid, best ask, bid, and ask prices
If I am backtesting a trading strategy, what ...
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Analyze raw tick data
I'd like to work with raw tick data and naturally this data is unevenly spaced (for example, a couple of quotes are at the same second etc.)
For example
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End of Day Market Data (One Minute Interval) for Commercial Purpose [closed]
I am developing a website and looking to use end-of-day data to calculate technical indicators and display them on it.
Please provide any financial data vendor that provides above mentioned data for ...
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Tutorial for working with tick data? [closed]
Can you recommend a good tutorial for working with tick data for the purpose of algorithmic trading?
Is the data normally stored in a database and only bits are read into memory at a time?
Is there ...
