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by vh
June 24th, 2004, 6:41 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Where are BBCOMM API Docs?
Replies: 5
Views: 188325

Where are BBCOMM API Docs?

On your terminal:WAPI Go
by vh
June 17th, 2004, 2:21 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: VBA for beginners
Replies: 10
Views: 187898

VBA for beginners

Head Towel Boy at the Gates mansion?
by vh
June 10th, 2004, 3:50 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: What is a quant?
Replies: 12
Views: 191336

What is a quant?

<t>I'm curious why "griefers" are not banned immediately. Posts like sage's are to be expected in the OffTopic forum, but I think that they should be banned when they act like hooligans in the other forums. It's obvious that he's around only to troll so why not end it quickly? That or give users a "...
by vh
June 9th, 2004, 3:11 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Multiple regression in Excel
Replies: 35
Views: 191985

Multiple regression in Excel

<t>I don't know the answer to your question with certainty. I always assumed that LINEST was doing ordinary least squares, and I'm not familiar with the other functions in the add-in.Perhaps you could tackle this problem a different way by using a statistics program for which you do know the algorit...
by vh
June 8th, 2004, 7:47 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Pamela Anderson or Ferrari for weekend
Replies: 16
Views: 190947

Pamela Anderson or Ferrari for weekend

I thought I had heard that Lindsay Lohan's father did jail time for commodities fraud. Interesting family...
by vh
June 8th, 2004, 1:10 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: vb
Replies: 6
Views: 188612

vb

<t>Are you using the Now() function? Use DateDiff on two dates to return the number of seconds between them.An alternative is the use Timer() function which returns the number of seconds elapsed since midnight. Obviously this causes a problem if your subroutine is running from 23:59 to 00:01, but it...
by vh
June 8th, 2004, 11:46 am
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Function in VBA
Replies: 11
Views: 190605

Function in VBA

<t>This approach should work for simple functions, although I can't guarantee that it works for all cases:Sub CallThis()'This routine is here only to excercise the routine below... Call EvalMyFunction("x^2")End SubSub EvalMyFunction(Func As String)'Only works on functions of x For i = 0 To 20 toeval...
by vh
May 26th, 2004, 3:04 am
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: access
Replies: 1
Views: 189327

access

What types of things are you interested in learning? Are you using a newer version of Access (based on MSDE), or an older one? Are you using Access purely to store data, or are you writing code in Access?
by vh
May 24th, 2004, 6:48 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Commercial portfolio optimization software
Replies: 5
Views: 189920

Commercial portfolio optimization software

I have been a user of APTPro (APT Ltd.) for several years, and it's solid. However, I haven't used their VaR-type calculation, so I can't comment on that.
by vh
April 28th, 2004, 6:34 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Asking for some advice on quant jobs
Replies: 7
Views: 190536

Asking for some advice on quant jobs

<t>I have a degree in ChE, and actually worked as an engineer for several years before moving to the dark side. For my part, I have to credit Lady Luck, and also "soft" skills for helping me to get a quant job. I would say that it's pretty difficult to break in. You'll definitely increase your chanc...
by vh
April 7th, 2004, 2:16 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Software in Finance company
Replies: 5
Views: 190251

Software in Finance company

Lately I've been using the R statistical language, which is open-source S. I read once that free software is only free if your time is worthless. Sometimes I think that's correct.