Crucial and many helpful R packages and research papers for finance and HFT with quant model, algo, and strategy example

Crucial and many helpful R packages and research papers for finance and HFT with quant  model, algo, and strategy example Note none of these have NOT been verified or validated yet but don’t mind me, I feel like a kid in a candy factory with these! With Interactive Brokers and R: http://blog.fosstrading.com/2010/05/introducing-ibrokers-and-jeff-ryan.html http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/IBrokers/vignettes/RealTime.pdf Implied volatility: […]

Rhadoop with R and Hadoop sort of works

Rhadoop with R and Hadoop sort of works Finally RHadoop running with R and Hadoop with rmr Map and Reduce bridged thanks to this tutorial These links made it happens to someone who commented on my last post on what started this whole journey. Thanks to them. <a href=”https://github.com/jeffreybreen/tutorial-201203-big-data”>https://github.com/jeffreybreen/tutorial-201203-big-data</a> <a href=”https://github.com/jeffreybreen/tutorial-201203-big-data/blob/master/README”>https://github.com/jeffreybreen/tutorial-201203-big-data/blob/master/README</a> http://jeffreybreen.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/big-data-step-by-step-slides/ [youtube_sc url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCgrUU02__Q” title=”r%20rhadoop%20hadoop”]

Cassandra looks like best NOSQL but too bad the connection through R is scant

No to MYSQL: How to use Cassandra with R and RCasandra versus Hadoop and HBase MYSQL looked good but can get pricey. Cassandra is true free open source and Twitter uses it! http://blog.milford.io/2010/06/installing-apache-cassandra-on-centos/ HBase vs Cassandra: why we moved No to MYSQL: How to use Cassandra with R and RCasandra versus Hadoop and HBase MYSQL looked […]