[R] R and Forex

[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
<yoursurrogategod at 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 for a novice?
>
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Yves S. Garret
>> <yoursurrogategod at 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 bring these two
>> ideas
>> > together in a financial and trading sense?  Are there any libraries or
>> > modules in R that can aid in this venture?
>> >
>>
>> > fortune('equity')
>>
>> I have never heard anyone (knowledgable or otherwise) claim that, in the
>> absence of transition costs, SAS is better than R for equity modeling. If
>> you
>> come across any such claim, I would be happy to refute it.
>>   -- David Kane
>>      R-SIG-Finance (December 2004)
>>
>>
>> You may want to address this question to r-sig-finance, and check out
>> the Finance Task View [1]. Regards
>> Liviu
>>
>> [1] http://cran.at.r-project.org/web/views/Finance.html
>>
>>
>> > --Yves
>> >
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