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zbojnik

Registered: Dec 2011
Posts: 112

09-11-12 01:36 AM

Hello! I want to learn how to program so I can analyze market data. I want to do things such as finding the average daily volume of an instrument for the past _x_ days. What languages do I need to learn to accomplish this? Can it be done in Microsoft Excel? For data source I would try to use either Google or SterlingTrader...

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Bob111

Registered: May 2002
Posts: 6400

09-11-12 01:51 AM

you can do everything in excel and VBA(part of excel)

http://spreadsheets.about.com/od/ex...age_functio.htm

and combine that with SQL and MS access(also part of MS office)

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vicirek

Registered: Dec 2011
Posts: 345

09-11-12 02:47 AM

Quote from zbojnik:

Hello! I want to learn how to program so I can analyze market data. I want to do things such as finding the average daily volume of an instrument for the past _x_ days. What languages do I need to learn to accomplish this? Can it be done in Microsoft Excel? For data source I would try to use either Google or SterlingTrader...

If you want to learn to program than you need relativly simple and versatile programming language. Currently MS C# is getting more popular and if you learn it than C++ and Java are are very similar. C# has good literature and help and it is free (express edition).

If you want to do simple things than VBA/Excel are sufficient but it has limits and migrating to another coding language is more difficult.

Simpler than C# is Visual Basic and both are similar especialy behind the scenes.

And do not forget Maryna.

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2rosy

Registered: May 2012
Posts: 335

09-11-12 03:42 AM

http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-doc...highlight=yahoo

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zbojnik

Registered: Dec 2011
Posts: 112

09-12-12 02:45 AM

Thanks to everyone! I appreciate it.

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WhiteOut56

Registered: Apr 2010
Posts: 392

09-12-12 03:21 AM

No one really ever find anything profitable by analyzing data (meaning open / high / low / close) data.

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