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by grsmith
October 26th, 2004, 2:50 pm
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: Hedge Fund / Partnership Accounting
Replies: 1
Views: 171042

Hedge Fund / Partnership Accounting

Does anyone have an opinion on Understanding Partnership Accounting ISBN: 093118701X ?If not can someone please recommend books or articles on how to set up an accounting system for the hedge fund / partnership firm.thanksgrs
by grsmith
January 9th, 2004, 6:44 pm
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: Genetic Algorithms
Replies: 2
Views: 189691

Genetic Algorithms

Does anyone have an opinion on the following book:Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming in Computational Financeby Shu-Heng ChenISBN 0-7923-7601-3Does it contain coding examples and in what language.thanksgsmithI think I mistakenly posted this on the careers forum - sorry.
by grsmith
November 20th, 2003, 3:14 pm
Forum: Book And Research Paper Forum
Topic: Quant Programming
Replies: 29
Views: 192702

Quant Programming

<t>I might add that if you write it in C# you would probably (I hate to use that word on this forum ) get people such as myself that are not in your line of work to purchase the book.I do not buy books with PCode for the reason that Alpine mentions - you can not paste and compile the code- who knows...
by grsmith
May 5th, 2003, 7:14 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: C# and Handle for an Array
Replies: 5
Views: 189756

C# and Handle for an Array

<t>If you want to use safe code you can use an ArrayList. It is dynamic and can hold any type of object.Below is example from Jessie Liberty's Coding in C#. If you want to us pointers and unsafe code I knowthey say you can do it but I have not tried it. If I did not have to leave on a trip in 10 min...
by grsmith
April 7th, 2003, 6:30 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Where are the financial functions (eg IRR) in C#
Replies: 3
Views: 189627

Where are the financial functions (eg IRR) in C#

<t>I have discovered that they aren't missing in C#, it's just that VB, by default,aliases the namespaces that the functions are included in.You add a reference to Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll in yourproject. Then, you can access the static IRR method onthe Financial class in the Microsoft.VisualBasic ...
by grsmith
April 7th, 2003, 12:32 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Where are the financial functions (eg IRR) in C#
Replies: 3
Views: 189627

Where are the financial functions (eg IRR) in C#

While reading over the weekend I came across the IRR function in VB.net.Where are they in C# ?If they are missing in C# then I would say there is a difference other thansyntax between C#.NET and VB.NETthanksgrs