Re: [R-SIG-Finance] High performance computing with R

2011-06-24 Thread soren wilkening
Hi This will depend on what kind of tests you want to run and on what amount of data. Find an answer to that question first. Then you trial-run these tests on your currently available hardware. And you may see that not even the two setups you are suggesting will be sufficiently fast for *some*

Re: [R-SIG-Finance] High performance computing with R

2011-06-24 Thread G See
Do you need to run multiple backtests because you have several instruments to test or are you trying to optimize parameters? If it's the later, you might think about whether you can do your optimization separately. If so, then just run your backtests with the optimized parameters. Garrett On

Re: [R-SIG-Finance] plain mean variance optimization

2011-06-24 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 23 June 2011 at 22:25, Yihao Lu aeolus_lu wrote: | | Hi,I wonder if there is any good package to do portfolio allocation/optimization. I would like to start with some plain mean variance optimization, but I wish the package can do more, say with different type of constraints. It will also