Q&A Order book R package for ultimate historical backtesting simulation?

Q&A Order book R package for ultimate historical backtesting simulation? This was from an R blog visitor   Hi! Im trying to get access to the R package “orderbook” (which is not on CRAN), any idea how to get hold on this?   This is an old but look really good. I would refer to […]

Here is an R package to interface R and IQFeed together for market data and tick feed

Here is an R package to interface R and IQFeed together for market data and tick feed https://github.com/bwlewis/iqfeed I will try this out with a potential review. NOTE: This appears it does not run. There is an Python version ut I gave up as I don’t know it https://github.com/sobotklp/pyqfeed/blob/master/setup.py daily <- HDX(“XOM”,days=3) Warning message: In […]

Will Microsoft OpenTech put Redis into #1 status for in memory NOSQL database? For Linux, Window, and Mac OS X?

Wow! I almost crapped my pants when I read these links: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-makes-improvements-to-redis-on-windows-in-memory-database/12563 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6476945/how-do-i-run-redis-on-windows https://github.com/rgl/redis/downloads  <–best download http://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2012/04/26/here-s-to-the-first-release-from-ms-open-tech-redis-on-windows.aspx https://github.com/MSOpenTech/Redis The amazing thing is Microsoft Azure is now the #1 division within Microsoft thanks to their new adoption of the open source languages like Python, Java, Ruby, PHP, etc. Now they want to move into NOSQL databases […]

Anyone know R, RStudio, RBG package, or RBloomberg package to help out

  Anyone know R, RStudio, RBG package, or RBloomberg package to help out Get in touch me if you can help this guys out. I live in NYC area. I recently got interested in trying out R for some of quant-financial projects.  I have used Matlab before.   I don’t think I can make it to […]

Youtube video on using RCaller R package to call R from within Java application

Youtube video on using RCaller R package to call R from within Java application This seems to work o from within a Linux virtual machine: http://www.mhsatman.com/rcaller.php http://stdioe.blogspot.ca/2011/07/rcaller-20-calling-r-from-java.html Ensure to use RCaller 2..7 JAR for the above example to work. http://stdioe.blogspot.ca/2011/07/rcaller-20-calling-r-from-java.html [youtube_sc url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHt0cq-6BvM” playlist=”r java”]