A common approach to reducing risk associated with financial portfolios is diversification. A portfolio made of components that are all highly correlated with each other -- a portfolio composed solely of financial stocks, for example -- is risky, because if there's a wide-spread crisis that affects the banking sector, all ... [Read more...]

Note: This post is NOT financial advice!  This is just a fun way to explore some of the capabilities R has for importing and manipulating data.   In part 2, we found that our 200-day high, hold 100 days strategy yielded average annual return... [Read more...]

"The R-Files" is an occasional series from Revolution Analytics, where we profile prominent members of the R Community. Name: Paul Teetor Profession: Quantitative developer (freelance) Nationality: American Years Using R: 7 Known for: Author of R Cookbook (O’Reilly Media, 2011) An active member of the R community, Paul Teetor is a ... [Read more...]

Yesterday, I wrote a post (in French) about short-selling in financial market since some journalists claimed that it was well-known that short -selling does increase volatility on financial market. Not only in French speaking journals actually, sin... [Read more...]

Note: This post is NOT financial advice!  This is just a fun way to explore some of the capabilities R has for importing and manipulating data.   In a previous post, I examined a simple stock trading strategy: Find the high point over the la... [Read more...]

On Thursday October 13, Hong Ooi from ANZ (Australia and New Zealand Banking Group) will give a webinar presentation on Successful Uses of R (along with SAS and Excel) in Banking. We've covered Hong's use of R for credit risk analysis here on the blog before, and in next week's webinar ... [Read more...]

At 2:42PM on March 10 2010, without warning, the Dow Jones Industrial Index plunged more than 1000 points in just 5 minutes. It remains the biggest one-day decline in this stock market index in history. On an intra-day basis, anyway: by the end of the day, the market had regained 600 points of the drop. ... [Read more...]

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Note: This post is NOT financial advice!  This is just a fun way to explore some of the capabilities R has for importing and manipulating data.   In my last post, I demonstrated how to backtest a simple momentum-based stock trading strategy ... [Read more...]

Lloyd's is the world's leading specialist insurance market, and is often the first to insure new, unusual or complex risks. So it's no surprise that Lloyd's is one of the many companies that use R and its advanced capabilities for data analysis to help manage its insurance risks. At the ... [Read more...]

Note: This post is NOT financial advice!  This is just a fun way to explore some of the capabilities R has for importing and manipulating data. The Financial Times says it's time to "Fire your Adviser" because correlations among US stocks ar... [Read more...]

Note: This post is NOT financial advice!  This is just a fun way to explore some of the capabilities R has for importing and manipulating data.   I recently read a post on ETF Prophet that explored an interesting stock trading strategy in Ex... [Read more...]

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As I stand[*] here at Heathrow waiting for my flight back to the States, I thought I'd dash off a few quick reflections of the userR! 2011 conference at University Warwick. It was an outstanding event. There's something about a conference of just a few hundred attendees (there were about 450) that ... [Read more...]

This summer, we have been told that some financial series broke some records (here, in French) For instance, the French CAC40 had negative return for 11 consecutive days (which has never been seen, so far). __ library(tseries)__ x [Read more...]

At last month's R user group meeting in Melbourne, the theme was "Experiences with using SAS and R in insurance and banking". There, Hong Ooi from ANZ (Australia and New Zealand Banking Group) gave a presentation on "Experiences with using R in credit risk". I didn't get to see the ... [Read more...]

Revolution Analytics is hosting several hands-on R training classes over the next few months, with in-person instruction from two leading package authors and experts from the R community. Diethelm Würtz from ETH Zurich will give a two-day master class on Portfolio Selection and Optimization in Practice. Prof Würtz ... [Read more...]

At the InformationManagement blog, Steve Miller talks about the applications of R to financial engineering, and reviews David Ruppert's book Statistics and Data Analysis for Financial Engineering. InformationManagement: Statistics and Financial Engineering [Read more...]

"The R-Files" is an occasional series from Revolution Analytics, where we profile prominent members of the R Community. Name: Jeff Ryan Profession: Owner/Principal at Lemnica; Committee Member at R/Finance Nationality: American Years Using R: 8 Known for: R/Finance Conference, quantmod and xts packages Jeffrey Ryan is a Chicago-based ... [Read more...]

We've noted before that with the RGoogleVis package, it's easy to make motion charts in R, and create a web-based interactive chart that reflects the synchronous movements of two or three variables over time. R user Jeffrey Breen has a great new blog post showing exactly how easy it is, ... [Read more...]