White Bumblebee is a trade system based on a simple moving average crossover, but with a special twist. Imagine your thermostat triggering your furnace to shut off or turn on every time a temperature crossed a threshold. If the thermostat didn't have a...
Algorithms are curious creatures. They behave in a very predictable way. They do as they are told and do it the same way every time. What they lack in imagination, they make up in reliability. You cannot talk an algorithm into saying something it's not...
Long time ago I stumbled across interesting volatility measurement at quantifiableedges.blogspot.com. The idea is following: take 3-day historical volatility of S&P 500 index and divide that by 10-day historical volatility. Then mark all points which are less that 0.25 and measure the volatility of 3 following days. On average, the volatility of following 3 days
Recently, Trading the odds posted one of many flavors of mean reverting strategies and I decided to get my hands dirty by writing R code and testing it. You can find full description of the strategy by following latter link above. Long story short – if SPY shows lower open, high and close 3 days in
I've been a bit busy lately with a few big things, however, I wanted to stop by and mention a fantastic book for those who have been following along the R examples. Anyone who's followed my blog knows that I'm big on practical books with examples...
RapidMiner + R is an advanced tool that can be used to analyze trading strategies, In order to check its power I made a simple example using an algorithm based on a support vector machine for predicting the next day's price and based on it I generated ...
RapidMiner + R is an advanced tool that can be used to analyze trading strategies, In order to check its power I made a simple example using an algorithm based on a support vector machine for predicting the next day's price and based on it I generated ...
I'm currently working on seasonal studies for various markets and have decided it's high time I got an organized workflow established. How does sugar behave in August every year? Is it random or are there some fundamental drivers that coerce its behavi...
R O How G8 U R!Hey, R U there? Having used the R language for awhile now, I would like to let you know that R works - in fact R works really well. If you keep up with R news this should be no surprise...this is, after all...an r blog! R and R alone c...
After the recent foray into stock analysis using quantmod, I thought it worthwhile to mention that the library can be used to analyze a wide variety of investments, including precious metals. It is also worthwhile to mention that there are other ...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
