financial

Database design question

I accumulated a quite a lot of data in a raw form (csv and binary) - 4GB per day for a few months to be precise. I decided to join the civilized world and use database to access the data and I wondered what would be the correct layout; the format is quite simple: a few rows for every time tick (bid, ask, timestamp, etc.) x up to 0.5Mill...

Recommendation for high performance WPF Chart

We're working on a WPF-based desktop application that charts financial markets information (candlestick charts, overlayed indicator curves, volume, etc). The charts are displayed in real-time with responses to market ticks being shown in real-time (updating one to two times per second is probably a reasonable display refresh policy). W...

Can we use RubyOnRails for Banking and financial transactions domain.

Can we use RubyOnRails framework to develop websites for financial transactions & banking transcations. Is RubyonRails a DSL for banking Domains. Some days on DSL, i believe most of the facts of Banking system are static and they may not need any subsequent alterations.. simultaneously. So defining a DSL, one way process must work. ...

C# financial charting library for Windows Forms?

Hi, I need a open-source/free C# tool or library that can do financial charting for a student project. It needs to be able to do a open-high-low-close chart, and be able to graph various technical indicators that I calculate, all from within a Windows form. Any recommendations? ...

Open Source Sponsorship Schemes? (GSoC-like)

All of us know meanwhile about Google's Summer of Code, however I was wondering: are there any other/similar sponsorship schemes for open source software? Something that would allow for partial funding of ongoing development efforts? If so, under what conditions and pre-requisites? ...

Integrating with Sage Financial Software

I have recently been asked to develop an application that will have to integrate with Sage Line 50 financial software. I've done some googling and I am surprised at the lack of info on interfacing with Sage from Java or .Net. Is Sage such a black box that you need to sign up to a Sage Developer program before you get any info? Are there...

Financial tracking for software projects

The team I'm part of manage a number of software projects - and most of the stuff we do is end to end, from requirements tracking, to project management to purchasing and setup - a big pain is tracking of financials as we have a whole process to go through for our financials. At the moment we use a spreadsheet and store all the invoices...

How do I implement a real time *financial* statistics engine from SQL server data for dashboard display?

We currently use excel automation to calculate time series statistics and store the results in our SQL Server 2008 database for easy display/sorting/etc. later. I'm currently redesigning the home screen of our app to present the most important information (as identified by the team using the app) in dashboard form. I'd like the display...

Financial Charts / Graphs in Ruby or Python

What are my best options for creating a financial open-high-low-close (OHLC) chart in a high level language like Ruby or Python? While there seem to be a lot of options for graphing, I haven't seen any gems or eggs with this kind of chart. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-high-low-close_chart (but I don't need the moving average or Bol...

How to Design a Program to Perform Complex financial calculations with .NET

Alright, I hope this isn't too broad a question but my curiosity got the better of me. I'm working for a large insurance company. We are building excel spreadsheets that handle projection of future cash value for life insurance policies. These are pretty large workbooks(40-50mb) with a ton of sheets and columns that have to take an asini...

Open Source Financial Library Specifically Yield To Maturity

Does anyone know of an open source financial library that implements Yield To Maturity and other fixed income calculations? The library needs to be callable from .Net. ...

How to skip empty dates (weekends) in a financial matplotlib python graph?

ax.plot_date((dates, dates), (highs, lows), '-') I'm currently using this command to plot financial highs and lows using matplotlib. It works great, but I also need the option to remove the blank spaces in the x-axis left by days without market data, such as weekends and holidays. I have lists of dates, highs, lows, closes and opens....

What are all Financial Industries - Standards, Protocols and Data Model?

First, let me agree this is not about programming. This is more about Financial Industry Architecture, and OpenStandards. It requires some exposure to banking (and financial) industry. When I was preparing for TOGAF exam, I came across Open Standard available for DataModel, Service Model, Architecture for many industries. (Example: AR...

Best Practices in Design of Billing / Invoice Software in .NET

I am currently working on a project where I have to design / implement the billing/invoicing system for our companies new project. We will be generating the invoices once a month as pdf files and sending out a link to the file to the customer. The framework in use will be .Net 3.5 / C#. As I do not have a lot of experience doing thi...

Sample Database Design for Financial Accounting

Could someone please lead me to a sample database for a financial accounting system? ...

What to charge for card style newsletter design work?

hi friends, my client asking for Card Style Newsletter design. I have no idea how much normally designers charge for such work :/ any idea? thanks!! appreciate ... ...

Why does a derivative trading position always require C++ knowledge?

I’ve never worked in a trading environment before and I was curious to see that few of the trading houses seem to use C#, but most of them do heavily rely on C++. Why is it? Is it because C++ is better performance wise? Is it because of legacy code bases? Is it because of cross-platform issues? What about dynamic languages (Ruby, P...

Condensing Stock Data

I have a data set that is composed as such: 2009,11,01,17,00,23,1.471700,1.472000 2009,11,01,17,01,04,1.471600,1.471900 2009,11,01,17,01,09,1.471900,1.472100 2009,11,01,17,01,12,1.472000,1.472300 2009,11,01,17,01,13,1.471900,1.472200 2009,11,01,17,01,14,1.471600,1.471900 2009,11,01,17,01,18,1.471700,1.472000 2009,11,01,17,01,18,1...

How to calculate Future Value (FV) using JavaScript

I've been given a task to convert a simple spreadsheet to a HTML form to be used on a website, that is going to do some calculations using JavaScript. This would be no problem at all except I know nothing about financial functions, and I've ran into FV (Future Value). This is the spreadsheet: B3 = 100 B4 = 10 B5 = B4*12 B6 = 12 B7 = 3 ...

Download financial transactions

Is there a C# library or something I can use to download credit card/bank transactions to do processing like what Mint, MS Money, etc. does? ...