quantitative-finance Questions

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I'm using pyalgotrade for a trading strategy where I want to use multiple tickers in a list. The way it is set up now, it runs the strategy for each individual ticker in the list, but what I want ...
Hydrophobic asked 7/12, 2016 at 0:32

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Take the following code: import MySQLdb as mdb import pandas as pd con = mdb.connect(db_host, db_user, db_pass, db_name) query = """SELECT `TIME`.`BID-CLOSE` FROM `EUR-USD`.`tbl_EUR-USD_1-Day` ...
Grouper asked 10/10, 2016 at 20:50

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I am trying to plot two charts on one chartSeries in quantmod in R. I am having some difficulty doing this. library(quantmod) tickers <- c('GLD', 'GDX') data <- new.env() getSymbols(ticker...
Overeager asked 1/7, 2016 at 2:17

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I'm building a small proof-of-concept app that requires historical stock quotes. The UI in my app allows users to select a date range, and I've been using the YQL console to generate the REST calls...
Multinuclear asked 11/12, 2015 at 21:55

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Is there a way to create an efficient frontier in the PortfolioAnalytics package without specifying an xts object of asset returns? Instead I'd like to supply the vector of expected returns and the...
Femininity asked 4/11, 2014 at 22:7

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Is there any function/package that can compute year fraction (differences between two dates) with different day-counting convention, like yearfrac() in Matlab? I need to use Actual/365 convention. ...
Majunga asked 28/9, 2014 at 9:52

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A) I'm using the Highstock charting library for a finance project of mine. However, I'm getting bogged down in performance issues. My working implementation of Highstock has i) 5 graphs in a chart ...
Metachromatism asked 19/6, 2013 at 16:21

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Is there something in Python similar to quantstrat in R?
Sinkage asked 12/12, 2012 at 9:8

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Speaking to a number of quants / hedgies, I came to the conclusion that a large number of them seem to be using either a homebrew language or OCaml for many tasks. What many of them couldn't answer...
Cameraman asked 17/12, 2009 at 20:31

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Much of quantstrat and the accompanying examples seem to be set around entering and exiting trades by crossing some kind of technical indicator. However, let's say you have an arbitrary indicator ...
Aftertime asked 4/5, 2012 at 1:41

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For instance, let's say you have ~10 years of daily 1 min data for the volume of instrument x as follows (in xts format) from 9:30am to 4:30pm : Date.Time Volume 2001-01-01 09:30:00 1200 2001-...
Cynth asked 24/2, 2012 at 6:27

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reqMktData(tws,twsOPT("AAPL 110820C00390000")) or reqMktData(tws,twsOPT("AAPL110820C00390000")) result in: TWS Message: 2 1 200 No security definition has been found for the request Why? r...
Chur asked 17/8, 2011 at 3:57

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I'm writing some Machine Learning software for equity and would like to find some tick data or at least 3 or 5 minute data. I would like to have a year or two for testing. I don't really care ab...
Zaratite asked 3/6, 2011 at 10:29

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I can use quantmod to get historical data and close-to-realtime quotes for stocks. I can also use quantmod to get financials data from Google. Are there any existing R packages that would let...
Sulph asked 21/4, 2011 at 20:6

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How to show which list of all quotes / data series available for example with getSymbols from Yahoo?
Forevermore asked 18/11, 2010 at 20:35

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I work for a boutique specialized in finance. We thought about designing a language to describe financial entities related to financial markets. This would be mainly used as some kind of...

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