Re: [R] currency or stock trading strategy

2006-10-21 Thread Darren Weber
Thanks to everyone for many useful tips to more information.I think this thread is worth reading, if only for that reason alone (despite some disparaging comments about my research abilitites). I appreciate the advice from those who have more experience with these finance tools than me (that

Re: [R] currency or stock trading strategy

2006-09-20 Thread Diethelm Wuertz
Darren Weber wrote: Hi Patrick, thanks for pointing me to your work and Rmetrics. I have a few questions on my mind right now. Do you have methods for automatic download of price quote histories? Rmetrics and tseries I can use python to get XML data on FOREX price quotes from the NYRB and

Re: [R] currency or stock trading strategy

2006-09-19 Thread BBands
On 9/17/06, Darren Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, are there any good charting and analysis tools for use with currencies, stocks, etc. in R? I have some tools to download currency data from the NYFRB using python and XML. Can we get and parse an XML download using R? Can we have

Re: [R] currency or stock trading strategy

2006-09-18 Thread Darren Weber
Hi Patrick, thanks for pointing me to your work and Rmetrics. I have a few questions on my mind right now. Do you have methods for automatic download of price quote histories? I can use python to get XML data on FOREX price quotes from the NYRB and other sites. Together with Rpy and

[R] currency or stock trading strategy

2006-09-17 Thread Darren Weber
Hi, are there any good charting and analysis tools for use with currencies, stocks, etc. in R? I have some tools to download currency data from the NYFRB using python and XML. Can we get and parse an XML download using R? Can we have interaction in R plots? Does anyone use R for back-testing