My personal use is to download raw data for a stock for a specific timeframe.
I after capturing the data to a file, I will do post analysis on the data. I have decided to use the socket support that is part of the j release to empliment a client application in J that allows me to communicate with opentick. take care! > >Elmer, > >This is an interesting story, great introduction. >Welcome to J community. I hope you will find your >experience interesting and productive. > >Regarding Opentick, its wire API is primarily >focused on real-time tick streaming. If that is what >you expect to rely on in J code, then either a native >J script would be necessary or possibly the C++ code >exposed as flat API to be consumed by J. > >If on the other hand, you just need the data in >more discrete portions, then an external process >can be called, which will be responsible to collecting >a certain amount of data, similar to how wget is called >from Package Manager in JAL. Such process can be a >perl script based in the perl implementation. > >Regards, > >Oleg Kobchenko > > >--- Elmer Fittery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I am 61 years old. I have been working as a software >> engineer since the late 60's. I graduated from UCLA. I >> hope to retire from Northrup Grumman in the next few >> years. >> I started my career writing APL at UCLA on a student work >> program and then upon graduation, started programming in >> Z80 and forth. Over the years, I moved into Unix and >> C/C++. From the late 60's to now, there has been a lot >> of water under the bridge and lots of Operating systems, >> languages and projects. >> Recently, I was a little bored writing regression testing >> in my companies proprietary language "babalonia" ( I am 1 >> or 4 people in the world that knows this language, but I >> doubt it will improve my marketability ). Anyhow, I >> mentioned to a fellow worker that I had done some APL and >> thought it was a great language. He said his father had >been a APL programmer prior to his death in a car wreck. >> We talked about the character set problem and he said >> "look at J". My interests was tweaked. I installed J on >> my ubuntu linix box at home and on my Win2000 - running >> cygwin at work. Then started learning J in my spare >time. Then I found reference to the "Euler Project" and >> started writing J code to solve the problems. Then Glen >> told me about opentick. He said he didn't use it, but it >> was interesting. Anyhow, I got the install package >> opentick code for Perl, C/C++ and java. This lead to the >> thread on J and Opentick. >> What is my motivation? I would say, the whole thing >> about J-Opentick is just a sequence of fortunate "it just >> happened". Also, I have some ideas about analyzing stock >> data that I wish to investigate and J will do just fine >> once I get over the initial learning curve. I will post a >> sample of my J code rendition for >> Historical Open-High-Low-Close Volatility: Yang Zhang >> >> which is defined at: >> >> http://www.sitmo.com/eq/417 > > > > >___________________________________________________________ >_________________________ Moody friends. Drama queens. Your >life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at >Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/ > > >------------------------------ > >----------------------------------------------------------- >----------- For information about J forums see >http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >End of Programming Digest, Vol 21, Issue 45 >******************************************* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
