The first international R/Finance 2009 conference in Chicago, IL was a huge success! David Smith from REvolution Computing has written a great summary of the entire event. I'll take the lazy route and point you to his blog post. :)The first internati...
After a year of "we plan to accept new subscribers shortly", opentick has shut its doors completely. As of March 20th, the opentick service is no longer available.From opentick.com:3/16/2009To opentick subscribers, friends, supporters, contributors an...
This is the first of a series of posts that will demonstrate how to build, test, and implement a trading strategy using my favorite FOSS, R. I chose the RSI(2) strategy because it has gotten considerable attention on trading blogs over the past 6 mont...
The conference website has details on:the agenda and speakers,travel accommodations,registration, andsponsors, who made the conference possible.Hope to see you there!
I am happy to announce a long-overdue update to the TTR package (version 0.2) is now on CRAN.This update represents a major milestone, as TTR useRs are no longer restricted to using matrix objects. TTR 0.2 uses xts internally, so all major time series...
Jeff Ryan's IBrokers package was mentioned on Ernie Chan's blog, Quantitative Trading. Though the package is still in pre-alpha stage, it is generating quite a bit of interest.Source:Ernie ChanFriday, January 16, 2009Quantitative Trading: Algorithmic ...
Call for PapersThe Finance Department of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC),the International Center for Futures and Derivatives at UIC, andmembers of the R finance community are pleased to announceR/Finance 2009: Applied Finance with Ron Apri...
Krishna Kumar, Jan Vecer and the great folks at REvolution computing put on a great event at the beautiful Columbia University campus on the Upper West Side of New York.Presentations by Whit Armstrong, Anthony Brockwell, Bryan Lewis, Scott Payseur, Pet...
This blog will highlight the development and use of free open-source software to research, test, and trade financial markets.Meet the authors:Joshua Ulrich is currently the author and maintainer of four R packages:TTR - Technical Trading Rules - a suit...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
