Re: [R] R and Forex

2011-10-12 Thread Wolfgang Wu
: [R] R and Forex Hi all,   I recently started learning about Forex and found this O'Reilly book in Barnes Nobles about R.  I bought it out of pure curiosity.  I like what I see.  However, I have a question.  Has anyone tried to bring these two ideas together in a financial and trading sense

Re: [R] R and Forex

2011-10-12 Thread Yves S. Garret
No, that's not what I meant. I was curious if anyone has ever done this before and how well it worked. Any tips for a novice? On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Yves S. Garret yoursurrogate...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: [R] R and Forex

2011-10-12 Thread Yves S. Garret
When can I send stuff to the mailing list without having moderator approval? Is that possible? On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Yves S. Garret yoursurrogate...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I recently started

Re: [R] R and Forex

2011-10-12 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
This being what exactly? Traded in FX using R? Yes, its done everyday, even as I type Michael On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Yves S. Garret yoursurrogate...@gmail.com wrote: No, that's not what I meant.  I was curious if anyone has ever done this before and how well it worked.  Any tips

Re: [R] R and Forex

2011-10-12 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
As was pointed out to you before, this is really more of an R-SIG-Finance question, but I wouldn't expect too much explanation there either, just people pointing you to the standard R finance tools (quantmod, zoo/xts, TTR, RBloomberg, and the Rmetrics suite; there's also some fantastic tools in

Re: [R] R and Forex

2011-10-12 Thread David Winsemius
On Oct 12, 2011, at 10:40 AM, Yves S. Garret wrote: When can I send stuff to the mailing list without having moderator approval? Is that possible? If you register (and you are currently registered at that address ) you can generally avoid moderation. The view available to the

Re: [R] R and Forex

2011-10-12 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
Just a comment on the lack of a direct R API for non-IBrokers brokerages: of course its possible to put something together using rJava or a direct C interface, but it's not the smoothest thing if you've never delved into the R internals and it's not quite the fastest thing in the world if you are

Re: [R] R and Forex

2011-10-12 Thread R. Michael Weylandt michael.weyla...@gmail.com
I suppose you could, contingent on the broker end's functionality, and R does provide some socket support (see ?make.socket and ?connections among others) but I suspect your question is entering the domain of the R-devel list where the experts on the nitty gritty could give you better answers

Re: [R] R and Forex

2011-10-12 Thread Yves S. Garret
Don't see myself making 'real-time' trades. Most likely a few times an hour. Oh, can't you make a socket to another app in R? That would be my first approach. On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:53 PM, R. Michael Weylandt michael.weyla...@gmail.com wrote: Just a comment on the lack of a direct R API

Re: [R] R and Forex

2011-10-12 Thread Yves S. Garret
I'm a little vague on what constitutes r-help and r-devel lists in terms of what questions to ask and where. I read a little bit that this list was about design and what you could do in R, but coding should be in r-devel. If I'm wrong, please clarify. On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:12 PM, R. Michael

Re: [R] R and Forex

2011-10-12 Thread R. Michael Weylandt michael.weyla...@gmail.com
To be honest, I don't frequently have occasion to wander over to R-devel and most of what goes on over there is over my level of easy-readability but I'd feel pretty confident that anything involving interface to another program on a socket or lower level is squarely their territory while

Re: [R] R and Forex

2011-10-12 Thread Joshua Ulrich
Yves and Michael, R-devel is the place for programming questions that would be confusing to most people who follow R-help. Posting to R-devel would make sense if you've written socket connections between applications in other languages and are having trouble sorting out how to do it in R. If

[R] R and Forex

2011-10-11 Thread Yves S. Garret
Hi all, I recently started learning about Forex and found this O'Reilly book in Barnes Nobles about R. I bought it out of pure curiosity. I like what I see. However, I have a question. Has anyone tried to bring these two ideas together in a financial and trading sense? Are there any

Re: [R] R and Forex

2011-10-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Yves S. Garret yoursurrogate...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all,   I recently started learning about Forex and found this O'Reilly book in Barnes Nobles about R.  I bought it out of pure curiosity.  I like what I see.  However, I have a question.  Has anyone tried to