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by damel
April 11th, 2007, 6:16 am
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Problem with Bloomberg (BLPIB) and VBA (solved!)
Replies: 1
Views: 77783

Problem with Bloomberg (BLPIB) and VBA (solved!)

<t>I solved the problem by myself.The solution is enough good for a smart task (like mine in this case), but not very rigorous.Mainly I use a timer function to wait Bloomberg finish the download of intraday bid/ask prices.The sheet is very simple and you can find it in the attachment.If you develope...
by damel
April 5th, 2007, 8:15 am
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Problem with Bloomberg (BLPIB) and VBA (solved!)
Replies: 1
Views: 77783

Problem with Bloomberg (BLPIB) and VBA (solved!)

<t>Hi to all,I've a problem to retrieve informations from Bloomberg using VBA code.I need to download intraday bond bid prices of many issues but I'm unable to write the proper code.For example here a piece of data:ISIN Contributor labelXS0159134369 DAB XS0159134369 @DAB CorpXS0159134369 ABN XS01591...
by damel
May 10th, 2006, 8:37 pm
Forum: Numerical Methods Forum
Topic: term structure fitting
Replies: 3
Views: 121252

term structure fitting

thanks CaptainFuturevery good link
by damel
April 21st, 2006, 7:32 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: MATLAB - fmincon to minimize sum of error^2
Replies: 1
Views: 165606

MATLAB - fmincon to minimize sum of error^2

<t>Hi,you have to relax following parameters:- TolFun: Termination tolerance on the function value.- TolCon: Termination tolerance on the constraint violation.- TolX: Termination tolerance on x.They are set on a default value (I think 1e-006).Try to put greater values.I guess the message says that y...
by damel
February 27th, 2006, 10:46 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: quadratic programming
Replies: 6
Views: 119065

quadratic programming

<t>if you are using matlab, you can use these 2 following functions:- portcons: to impose your constraints in inequality equations; ( you have to create one matrix and one vector representing your right and left hands of inequality equations )- portopt: to implement the optimization.matlab offers mo...
by damel
February 10th, 2006, 7:10 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: How?: Binomial Tree for pricing European options.
Replies: 8
Views: 120106

How?: Binomial Tree for pricing European options.

Modeling Derivatives in C++Justin LondonISBN: 0-471-65464-7link to wiley siteit's a good book with a wide view on the all the topics
by damel
February 10th, 2006, 6:49 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: SOS : Using MATLAB for financial analysis
Replies: 6
Views: 119657

SOS : Using MATLAB for financial analysis

the .zip from matlab central is a nice application. thank u QuantOption
by damel
February 2nd, 2006, 2:53 pm
Forum: The Quantitative Finance FAQs Project
Topic: What is volatility?
Replies: 6
Views: 139481

What is volatility?

<r>A statistical measure of the tendency of a market or security to rise or fall sharply within a period of time.Volatility is typically calculated by using variance or annualized standard deviation of the price or return. A measure of the relative volatility of a stock to the market is its beta. A ...