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A Structural Approach to Economic Recovery
Please see this new paper:
New American Bank Initiative: Removing structural flaws in the economic rescue
by David Leinweber and Salman Khan
Here's the abstract:
In this paper, we argue for a New American Bank Initiative: use the $700 ...
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Seen Stockmood?
Check out: http://stockmood.com . They are taking the sentiment of articles covering a specific set of stocks to get overall sentiment. In true contraian fashion their regressions have found that when sentiment is high compared to historical mea...
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Talk at Web 2.0 New York
I'll be doing a talk on "The Ecosystem of Corporate and Social Data" at Web 2.0 NYC. It seems like it could be relevant to some of you.
Details here:
http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/schedule/detail/4866
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What would a finance card do? Parallel Computing in Wired Markets
Back in the old days, when stocks traded, slowly, in 1/8s and in one place, it was easy to measure the state of a market. Look at the recent quotes and trades on a ticker or display.
Now, with penny pricing, dozens of market fragments, limit o...
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Open Source Pipes Movement
We've asked Yahoo to consider making Pipes open source, and offered to host it at CIFT.
We'd also like to have a few examples of "hello world" financial Pipes applications to help people get started.
Any Pipes BOFs out there?
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We missed CIFT at BarCampBankSF, maybe at BarCampBankSF2?
All,
I've just discovered CIFT (my loss for not knowing before). We've just had a BarCampBank San Francisco at Berkeley CET - http://barcamp.org/BarCampBankSF - two weeks ago. I think we would have benefited from having people from CIFT then.
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Hardware for High Speed Finance
Market data flows are voluminous, fast, time-critical, and growing rapidly around the world.
There are particular challenges to meet when designing computers for electronic trading, and a particular aspects of the data and analytic task that su...
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Wishlist for Student Resources
A key goal of the Center is provide training in a realistic investment and trading environment.
The Usual Suspects:
Reuters
Dow Jones
Bloomberg
Which tools would people like to see?
Just to get the ball rolling:
Optimizers - BARRA...
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