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by MattJones
November 9th, 2006, 6:23 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Highly In-The-Money Call Option on the DJX
Replies: 2
Views: 88709

Highly In-The-Money Call Option on the DJX

<t>I wanted to know if anyone could help me figure this out:In the Wall Street Journal this morning (November 9, 2006), I was looking at a highly in-the-money Call Option on the DJ Indus (DJX) that expires in December. It has strike $84 and last traded at $37.10. The underlying index was quoted clos...
by MattJones
March 24th, 2006, 1:50 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: UChicago, Courant, and CMU
Replies: 21
Views: 116720

UChicago, Courant, and CMU

<t>Hey everybody,Got a tough decision to make and wanted to solicit your opinions. I've got acceptances with Courant and UChicago and an interview with CMU. I don't put much weight on rankings but am interested in getting people's opinions. I'm interested in becoming a practitioner and not an academ...
by MattJones
June 27th, 2005, 6:15 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Extracting financial data from Bloomberg or Research Insight to Excel VBA
Replies: 7
Views: 152069

Extracting financial data from Bloomberg or Research Insight to Excel VBA

Thanks again. The BBXL was exactly what i was looking for.
by MattJones
June 27th, 2005, 5:25 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Extracting financial data from Bloomberg or Research Insight to Excel VBA
Replies: 7
Views: 152069

Extracting financial data from Bloomberg or Research Insight to Excel VBA

<t>Thanks for your help.You wouldn't happen to know if it is possible to make a array with historical data? I basically need one array for daily closing prices from a fixed time to the present and another for total daily trading volume. As I'm sure you're aware based on the questions I'm asking, I j...
by MattJones
June 27th, 2005, 2:27 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Extracting financial data from Bloomberg or Research Insight to Excel VBA
Replies: 7
Views: 152069

Extracting financial data from Bloomberg or Research Insight to Excel VBA

<t>I am looking to write a program based on closing prices and average trading volumes. So, i guess i would need it to be real time even though it is only going to update once a day.Are there any tutorials for bloomberg that you know of that can help me with this? I found out that there is a BLP fun...
by MattJones
June 24th, 2005, 2:17 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Extracting financial data from Bloomberg or Research Insight to Excel VBA
Replies: 7
Views: 152069

Extracting financial data from Bloomberg or Research Insight to Excel VBA

I wanted to be able to extract some financial figures from either Bloomberg or Research Insight into arrays in the Visual Basic Applications in Excel.Does anyone know how to do this?Sincerely,Matt Jones