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yeah, that's the one... It is a pretty fun class, good for ppl with moderate programming skills, who know little of the markets, it teaches you the basics of putting together an automated system using python.

Ah ok, yeah, that makes a lot of sense... :)

Hey nitro, I'm fairly new to programming and have a much shorter list of languages under my belt (R, Python, Matlab, SQL and currently learning C to progress later to ++) I use mostly python for my coding, but I spend more and more time working with SQL since a lot of the problems I face...

I saw that course too, Im planning to check out a few of its videos. im currently taking a few MOOCs from edx coursera and udacity... Have you taken Computational Investments?

Linux makes a much more efficient use of resources available than Windows, wether it is RAM or CPU usage, windows can be a very fat system... (specially 7 & 8) For this reason Linux is a very good replacement for machines that are just enough to run XP today... (since XP ends its lifecycle in a...

That class is an excelent starting point. You may want to take a closer look at pandas afterwards, since it is the bread and butter for any type of statistical analysis on python. There are a few libraries that are good for backtesting, like zipline (which also has the added advantage of...

I've used both R and Python to build financial applications during the last year or so... R was the first language that I learned for this task during the Introduction to Financial Econometrics class in coursera... and for a while I was using it a lot... Afterwards I took several python...

I few years ago there was a girl in a trading floor, she used to trade INTL... and day in day out, she will come early in the morning check news for Intel, get her plan ready, look at INTL charts and then do her trading... and she actually did well... so well in fact that the floor manager...

There is more than a few banks that still have their systems built in COBOL believe it or not! But I agree with you, it SHOULD be limited to the storage room of some museum. About my script, most if the heavy lifting is done by the regular expressions, and these are the same on most...

I found it to be quite the opposite... programming in python allowed me to tackle the subject of software development after avoiding for 10 years following a bad experience in college with COBOL and PASCAL... compared to COBOL python is a wonder... no need to spend line after line setting...

Hi hft_boy, very interesting conversation you got here. (at least it was before the whole flame war...) It sort of gravitaded towards the low level details of FIX gateway server implementations... in case you're interested to come back around I would like to push the discussion...

I've been playing with Zipline and it wasn't very hard to plug my own data into the system so it should be relatively easy to do futures and forex backtesting, as long as you pass notional value instead of contract value (so that the pnl calculations are straight fwd)

for the historical earnings and knowing who is reporting today... http://biz.yahoo.com/research/earncal/today.html

Hi guys, I put together this python script that imports symbols and industries from yahoo. :) enjoy.

Quanstrat is open source... so you could port its code to python... it may take some work due to the dependencies, but it shouldnt be as hard as building a library from scratch... or you could use rpy2 to run it from python :)

ROFLMAO.... talk about latency...

I've used R, Python and Octave (free matlab) for coursework in coursera, and also to perform analysis and build trading systems. I prefer python since it is the best all-rounder languaje between the three, along with numpy, pandas and other packages it offers very complete functionality for...

Www.coursera.org also has a lot of courses that are directly or indirectly related to finance/trading.

Wow... that's a great site! Thanks! :)

yeah, like the guy who hacked QSTK into windows... awesome workaround...