Re: [Factor-talk] btp - My first body of Factor work

2013-11-13 Thread Jon Herron
You'd also have to likely deal with sessions once you dig into inter-day bars :( I may write a parser for CQG Data Factory files which are pretty simple, if so I'll see how difficult getting daily going is. 3) Ah makes sense Thanks! On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Jon Herron wrote: &

Re: [Factor-talk] btp - My first body of Factor work

2013-11-13 Thread Jon Herron
signal? 2) Any thoughts about increasing granularity to below daily bars and adding additional data providers? 3) You have to do detect-signals before backtest, is that correct? It seems redundant unless I am misunderstanding something Thanks, Dexter On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Jon Herron

[Factor-talk] btp - My first body of Factor work

2013-11-07 Thread Jon Herron
Hi all -   About a month ago I got some really helpful feedback on the start of my backtesting app. Tonight I finally got something that is close enough to call version 0.1. So far the app supports downloading historical data, detecting signals and simulating buy/sells against a configurable br

Re: [Factor-talk] Mind reviewing my code?

2013-10-12 Thread Jon Herron
ency to it (not that big a deal though). On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Jon Herron wrote: Well played sir! Done and pushed. If any of the words defined would be helpful I'm more than happy to contribute them back. I was also thinking parallel-product-map might be useful? > >J

Re: [Factor-talk] Mind reviewing my code?

2013-10-12 Thread Jon Herron
have as a library word. Also, you can have multiple sections, so you might find it "cleaner" to have your (group-by-symbol) word defined immediately before it is used in group-by-symbol. Best, John. On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Jon Herron wrote: I've (hopeful

Re: [Factor-talk] Mind reviewing my code?

2013-10-12 Thread Jon Herron
o let me know. Thanks again for all the help and advice. Going to start on the next piece of my puzzle. Jon On Thursday, October 10, 2013 8:19 AM, Jon Herron wrote: Thanks Alex. This looks like excellent feedback. I'll digest this and report back. Jon On Thursday, October 10,

[Factor-talk] factorcode.org down?

2013-10-10 Thread Jon Herron
It seems like factorcode.org is down. Just wanted to send out a heads up. Thanks, Jon -- October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, Op

Re: [Factor-talk] Mind reviewing my code?

2013-10-10 Thread Jon Herron
eserve & return the hashtable at the end.  I'm not sure, and I won't hazard to rewrite the logic myself in my current state, but you might be able to just pass around a reference to the hashtable in a more conventional iteration:     IN: scratchpad H{ } clone { 1 2 3 } over '[ du

Re: [Factor-talk] Mind reviewing my code?

2013-10-09 Thread Jon Herron
'd be happy to review.  Also, I have some support for getting quotes from Yahoo! Finance - maybe you could contribute some of your work to the project: https://github.com/mrjbq7/re-factor/blob/master/yahoo/finance/finance.factor On Oct 9, 2013, at 7:53 PM, Jon Herron wrote: Hi all - &g

[Factor-talk] Mind reviewing my code?

2013-10-09 Thread Jon Herron
Hi all -   In my spare time I am working on a backtesting application and I've decided to write it in Factor. So far all I have is a vocab for scraping/parsing the market movers from Yahoo Finance (eg http://finance.yahoo.com/actives?e=us). Before I write too much more Factor I was wondering if