finance

Portfolio Management API

Does anyone know of a Stock/Fund GIPS Portfolio API. An Open Source version would be preferable. Thanks, j. ...

Performance of C++ vs Virtual Machine languages in high frequency finance

I thought the C/C++ vs C#/Java performance question was well trodden, meaning that I'd read enough evidence to suggest that the VM languages are not necessarily any slower than the "close-to-silicon" languages. Mostly because the JIT compiler can do optimizations that the statically compiled languages cannot. However, I recently receive...

Howto use Google Finance gadgets JavaScript API

How can i get access to the Google Finance gadgets JavaScript API (http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/apis/finance/docs/finance-gadgets.html#JS_API) ?? I see the methods but how can i include the javascript api into a html file? Or must i use the google IDE? ...

Need an API to find a full company name given a ticker symbol

I need a way from within client-side Javascript to find a full company name given a ticker symbol. I am aware of Yahoo Finance's interface at: http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=TKR&f=n and am able to access that via YQL (since this is cross-domain). However, that doesn't return the full company name, yet Yahoo Finance has suc...

currency rates from yahoo finance limitations

Hello, I'm trying to write a script that would download currency rates from yahoo finance. The problem is ... i can't find any information on the limitations of this service. Especially i'm interested in how often i can query yahoo finance to access the quotes.csv file. Would yahoo kill my script if i executed it periodically every minu...

Bank transactor database

I see mint.com can identify what company performed a transaction on my checking account, and the company's typical product category. I presume this information is derived from a financial transaction's transactor/description field. Is there a free, public database or API I can use to do the same thing in my programs? ...

Is there a World-Wide Stock Market real-time quotes Application Programming Interface (API)?

Hi there, I'm looking for an Application Programming Interface which will allow me to access quotes and other data about multiple company symbols for at least the following stock exchanges: American Stock Exchange (AMEX) Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) Bank of Canada Bombay Stock Exchange (BOM) Canadian Venture Exchange (CVE) Euronex...

finance news rss feeds

Hi, I am looking for getting some rss feeds for finance news. I know, there are few like Yahoo finance RSS, Reuters RSS feeds but from terms & conditions, they mentioned that we cannot use them for commercial. I am planning for an iPhone app where i need to show stock/finance news for stocks etc. Would be great if someone can point me...

Mint.com back-end, how does it work?

Mint.com connects to your bank account, credit card account, etc, and downloads your data. How do they do that? Do they need any special authorization from the banks or it's an open API? How about security? Can you please explain their back-end system? ...

Is there any alternative to ta-lib?

ta-lib is a technical analysis library written in C with ports in some other languages. I wonder if there is any other similar open-source library also in C. ...

software developer/manager to finance

hello, I am a java developer with 2.5 years of exp.I also do some lead a small team in my organisation.Can you tell me if I study CFA(Chartered Financial Analyst) then will it help me in my career? i am open to go to finance field or stay in IT with finance domain thnx ...

Algorithm to determine exchange rate

Given a data set of various currency pairs, how do I efficiently compute the implied fx rate for a pair not supplied in the data set? For example, say my database/table looks like this (this data is fudged): GBP x USD = 1.5 USD x GBP = 0.64 GBP x EUR = 1.19 AUD x USD = 1.1 Notice that (GBP,USD) != 1/(USD,GBP). I would expect the...

Objective C Math Formula Fail

Hi, noob here wants to calculate compound interest on iPhone. float principal; float rate; int compoundPerYear; int years; float amount; formula should be: amount = principal*(1+rate/compoundPerYear)^(rate*years) I get slightly incorrect answer with: amount = principal*pow((1+(rate/compoundPerYear)), (compoundPerYear*years)); I'm...

How do these guys avoid creating any garbage?

Here's an interesting article that I found on the web. It talks about how this firm is able to parse a huge amount of financial data in a managed environment, essentially by object reuse and avoiding immutables such as string. They then go on and show that their program doesn't do any GC during the continuous operation phase. This is p...

Possible to make a consistently successful stock market playing bot?

Who has created a bot to play the stock market and what kind of return did you see? I'm currently still in very alpha stages but I can play the stock market with play money and get some very nice results using historical real time data. Currently I have around 8 parameters that go into configuring the buy and sell function. When I varied...

Downloading Yahoo stock prices in R

This is a newbie question in R. I am downloading yahoo finance monthly stock price data using R where the ticker names are read from a text file . I am using a loop to read the ticker names to download the data and putting them in a list. My problem is some ticker names may not be correct thus my code stops when it encounters this case...

iPhone Native Stocks Application

Anyone know how apple uses yahoo finance api to get the historical data for stocks at different times of the dat. Also, how to get the quote price for a given stock at different times of the day for today instead of just the current quote? It seems that the yahoo finance api can be used to get the current price, and the iChart.yahoo.. c...

Can a PayPal transaction include a third party?

The situation is as follows: there's a website that connects sellers and buyers, like Ebay. Among other things the owner of the website needs to know the details of each transaction initialized from there. Essentially I am looking for a payment method that returns a digital receipt. Is it possible to do something like that with PayPal?...

Yahoo! Finance CSV file will not return Dow Jones (^DJI)

I am trying to retrieve market data from Yahoo! finance and the script has worked fine for years, but recently, it stopped showing The Dow Jones data. Here is the URL: http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=^DJI,^IXIC,^GSPC,^TNX&f=snl1d1t1c1ohg The URL should return data on: Dow Jones NASDAQ S&P 10 Year Bonds It actua...

Programmatic API for downloading historical financial statements

Folks I am looking for a web API (free or available at some reasonable cost for an individual developer) to download financial statements for a given stock symbol (income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statements) I searched on this site and found couple of useful links about stock quotes (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/417...